What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are associated with hipness, coolness, edginess. So all kinds of youth all over the world are appropriating that style as a way of, sort of, countering authority, stating their rebelliousness, and wanting to be seen as significant (Amalia Mesa-Bains, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism)
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic (William Shakespeare, Richard III)
She’s in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club. (M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts)
There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. (John Michael Greer)
Embrace the love of God. (Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!)
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don’t often do them. (Jerry Moran)
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt (William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)
The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice (Joseph B.H. McMillan, A ‘Final Theory’ of God)
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t (Elbert Hubbard)
Original thinking is the hardest thing you can try to do or that you can do, but it is also the most rewarding. Focus on your personal growth and development – David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income