"Accountability as I mean it is more about ourselves in the context of the collective. … about recognizing that we are necessary and wanted. … when we are not working to live as our best selves, we are devaluing the time and care that our loved ones offer us."
— Mia Birdsong in her book, How We Show Up #Nonfiction#bookQuote
"A good place to look for wisdom is where you least expect to find it: in the minds of your opponents. If you can take off the blinders of the myth of pure evil, you might see some good ideas for the first time."
— Jonathan Haidt #Nonfiction#bookQuote
"Will they play the anthem?” I asked.
“The which?”
‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’”
“Oh, the national ballad. What for? This is a ball match, not the Senate.”
At least one bit of jingoistic idiocy hadn’t yet lodged in the national psyche, I thought.
-- from If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock, published in 1989 and set during baseball's infancy in the late 1860s. Just like his character Sam Fowler, Brock was ahead of his time.
@CindySue@bookstodon I believe we can all collaborate. It might be harder for some of us to collaborate all the time but then when they do they add more to the overall collaboration.
We will make mistakes. We will forget that we belong to one another, and then we will remember again, make amends, and move forward. This is all part of the process.
Kaitlin B. Curtice- Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
If you're a fan of Stephen King's work and familiar with his universe, then this line in Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower 6) will make so much sense:
"You'll go on with your life. You'll write many stories, but everyone will be to some greater or lesser degree about this story. Do you understand?"
-- Roland Deschain to a young Stephen King, saying the quiet part out loud
From the introduction to The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker: "The slaver is a ghost ship sailing on the edges of modern consciousness. To conclude on a personal note: this has been a painful book to write, and if I have done any justice to the subject, it will be a painful book to read. There is no way around this, nor should there be."
"Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out."
"On the whole, any painter who really knows his craft recognizes that he is moving in the wrong direction right from the initial sketch." -- from José Saramago's 'Manual of Painting and Calligraphy', trans. Giovanni Pontiero