Solitaire ou Solidaire

Our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness our parents never had time for.

[thunderstruck9]

Liu Xiaodong (Chinese, b. 1963), Relaxing in Water, 1999. Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 161.4 cm.

[quotespile]

A human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

[adrenaline]

[la-tranquilite]

It goes something like this: race is fluid and third space and liminal, and blackness is fragmented and unfinished and on the threshold, and race is hybrid-on-the-border-messy and black is fractured, incomplete, flexible. And I thought: it is painful and harmful to live like that, isn’t it? It hurts to live always undone and unfinished. It is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking even when the impossibility is joyful or you catch a glimpse of a life outside that inflexible weight.

Katherine McKittrick and Alexander G Weheliye, “808s & Heartbreak”

[ascensionofman]

[lasmaracuyas]

What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could have prisons, that could have slavery, that could have the wage, and therefore not abolition as the elimination of anything but abolition as the founding of a new society.

Moten & Harney, “University and the Undercommons” (via lasmaracuyas)

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[quotemadness]

You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Audre Lorde (via quotemadness)

[tilebreaker]

[climbthestacks]

If you don’t like somebody in two minutes, you’re done with them forever.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

[digbicks]

Is This Art? (2010), Maciej Ratajski

[larmoyante]

“‘Let’s do that,’ she said suddenly. ‘Do what?’ ‘Say something to each other in the dark.’”

— Jhumpa Lahiri, “A Temporary Matter” in Interpreter of Maladies

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

and I know tender places still intrigue you.

Audre Lorde, from The Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde: Progress Report (via violentwavesofemotion)

[michaelschmidtart]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.

Albert Camus, from A Happy Death (via violentwavesofemotion)

[blackcontemporaryart]

Jessica Spence

Sore Arms, 2017

http://www.jessicaspenceart.com/