22 February, 2014

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Ayo: Joyful Dan O'Brien: The Body of an American “Sometimes I feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.  I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.”  
— The Smiths Frankly Mr. Shankly

15 February, 2014

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Billy Bragg: Back to Basics Lynn Nottage: Crumbs from the Table of joy “An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”
— Adrienne Rich from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence

8 February, 2014

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Ali Akbar Khan: Journey Joy Harjo: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 Beautiful men “keep their love high in the linen closet and I’m too short to reach it.”
— Sonia Sanchez from Home Girls and Hand Grenades

25 January, 2014

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Mi Casa: Su Casa Stephen R. Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People “I asked him to marry me, once. He told me he couldn’t because this would be all that their was.” — Patty Larkin from “I Told Him my Dog Wouldn’t Run”

29 December, 2013

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Vice featuring Mike Taylor: World is Our Playground
Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath
“How many bullets are left Chino? Enough for you, and you, all of you — you all killed him . . . not with bullets and guns, with hate. Well I can kill too, because I have hate. How many can I kill Chino, and still have one bullet left for me?”
— Maria from West Side Story

21 December, 2013

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Tyga: Rack City Bertol Brecht: Life of Galileo
“If I was your girlfriend would u remember 2 tell me all the things u forgot
when I was your man?”
 — Prince “If I was your girlfriend”