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The first page of Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-fi…

I often think about the 2004 book Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs and how painfully prescient the title was and is.

“Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that’s how every ideology functions.” ― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"The same skills needed for writing are needed for reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque

"In my writing my instinct was to defy form, but I very much sought in defying it to affirm it, an irony that was difficult enough to articulate, much less defend." - Percival Everett, Erasure

"The constant struggle to create community. Constant struggle! You can’t stop fighting. And creat­ing community means creating community with those you don’t like. And people who don’t like you. And trying to figure how to move forward to something better." - Robin D. G. Kelley

How to find the panache in the bitterness.

"It’s nice to hate everything and enjoy the details." - Dambudzo Marechera, Scrapiron Blues

“When someone asks what is your writing process, I think it must be to try and try and then finally, in the gap between the limits of my body and the possibility of pulling something through, somewhere in that gap—" ― Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Some passages from We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2021/12/some-p…

"We had to learn to listen, not just speak. For this reason, when we are asked what we are, we don’t know what we are, we are a hybrid, a result of reality." - Subcomandante Marcos

“If there’s anything that I would go back and do differently, it would be to play a less protagonistic role in the media.” - Subcomandante Marcos

“Collaboration is a calling to work with and for others, in the service of something that transcends individual artistic ego and, as such, has to do with love, survival, generosity, and a conversation in which the terms of language are multidimensional.” - Anne Waldman

“My favourite genre of literature is gossip. My second favourite is prayer. But sometimes those are one and the same. – Aurora Mattia, The Fifth Wound