Donna Tartt — On The Fatal FlawAlıntı
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
ours must be
a politic of revolution
freedom can't exist
until the most disadvantaged are free
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As the Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates tersely asserts, very concept of race emerges from the distorted imagination of "Race is the child of racism, not the father." In other words, the very concept of race emerges from the distorted imagination of the racist. Though racism's impacts are real, in physiological or genetic terms race does not exist. Superficial differences in skin color, body morphology, or facial features do not create "races.” Historically the idea of race arose from the impulse of European capitalism to enrich itself by subjugating, enslaving, and, if necessary, destroying Indigenous people on other continents, from Africa to Australia to North America. Indeed, the word "race" did not exist in any meaningful way until it was created in the late eighteenth century. Psychologically, on the individual level, the "othering" racism entails is an antidote to self-doubt: if I don't feel good about myself, at least I can feel superior to somebody and gain a sense of power and status by claiming privilege over them.
Emin misin?Alıntı
"Certitude does not exist" diyor New York'daki bir duvar yazısı. “Are you sure?"
Sayfa 97 - Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Sevilmek için ya güzel olmak ya da sorun çıkarmak mı gerekir hep?
Sometimes I feel like I don’t exist in this house because I’m not beautiful and loud, like Maddie, or a problem, like Joey. I’m just me. The good one.
You do not exist, I know that, but can I be sure that I exist?
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