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thinking over and over and over of that clip from a maya angelou talk about the importance of knowing one another's history. no matter how brutal no matter how bleak no matter how despairing no matter anything because the only way through it is to go all the way through it. and the only way to build anything with one another is by having gone all the way through it because otherwise there is no connection. whats a connection worth that's built on ignorance? sustained by ignorance? "only equals can make friends" she says. only equals.

delusionalrobot

from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

hamnet

[id: text that reads 'You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bar- gain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no differ- ence. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time.' /end id]

lamignonette

keanuree-ves

Keanu reeves by Michael O'Brien 1989

devilmuse

Mihara Yasuhiro burnt tank

theshatterednotes

“The world did not begin with me / it will not end with me / I am / one pulsebeat in the throbbing river”

— Octavio Paz, from “Identical Time”, The Poems of Octavio Paz (via halcynth)

boymiffy

looking at ur parents knowing you never want to be like them and they looked at their parents thinking the same and their parents looked at their parents thinking the same its sickening to think about actually

loveletter2you

bell hooks, All About Love

wintercorrybriea

soloist bone shaped handcuff bracelet

daweyt

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”