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If black racial identity speaks to all the things done to people of recent African ancestry, black culture identity was created in response to them. The division is not neat; the two are linked, and it is incredibly difficult to be a full participant in the world of cultural identity without experiencing the trauma of racial identity. - Ta Nehisi Coates

I have to constantly remind myself that those days don’t mean I haven’t progressed. It means that I, like everyone else, am in progress.

— Arpita Appannagari

Now is the time to counter lies with facts, repeatedly and unflaggingly, while also proclaiming the greater truths: of our equal humanity, of decency, of compassion. Every precious ideal must be reiterated, every obvious argument made, because an ugly idea left unchallenged begins to turn the color of normal. It does not have to be like this.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie source

There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via the Internet, and there’s no easy way to properly calibrate it—no guidebook for how to expand your heart to accommodate these simultaneous scales of human experience; no way to train your heart to separate the banal from the profound. Our ability to change things is not increasing at the same rate as our ability to know about them. No, 2016 is not the worst year ever, but it’s the year I started feeling like the Internet would only ever induce the sense of powerlessness that comes when the sphere of what a person can influence remains static, while the sphere of what can influence us seems to expand without limit, allowing no respite at all.

Jia Tolentino http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-worst-year-ever-until-next-year?intcid=mod-latest

Graceful under fire.

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It is a delusion to think that life has no wills but your own, or that you can thrive without the care and concern of others. But sometimes you can engineer a temporary condition, and produce a sense of accomplishment and self reliance that uplifts you.

Emily Witt

Separate, connect. Separate, connect. It’s the primal dance of finding ourselves in another, and another in ourselves

- Can Attachment Theory Explain All Our Relationships?

Bruce was using the process of building to heal, not just for those who were sick, but for the entire community as a whole. We call this the locally fabricated way of building, or "lo-fab," and it has four pillars: hire locally, source regionally, train where you can and most importantly, think about every design decision as an opportunity to invest in the dignity of the places where you serve.

Architecture Built to Heal

You can only be influenced by what you remember and therefore what you enjoy, so read things you enjoy and will be influenced by.

Molly Young

It’s not about what someone can do for you, it’s who and what the two of you become in each other’s presence.

Ronald Sharp

Though monumental, it was to him a work in progress till the end, there perpetually evolving yearning of a monumental soul.

Roger Rosenblatt

Our body of work is an expression of implied yearning.

Roger Rosenblatt

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Constantin Brancusi

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Throw yourself full throttle in the direction of what consumes your thoughts and ambitions.

Samantha Wills

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Sleeping is / when bones grow. Sleeping is / to love the dark. I love it so much / I want to be it, for a while, / then I wake up.

Lisa Olstein, from The Little Stranger; “To Where” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Mastery is about sacrificing for your craft, and not for the sake of crafting for your career.

Sarah Lewis

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