April 2012
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Asian-American identity was meant to be a means to an end rather than an end in...
– Chris Iijima
brilliant.
(via djphatrick)
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re...
– Haruki Murakami
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I love my Asian brothers, but I’ve lost my patience with malingering homophobia...
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By Mari Matsuda Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Asian American Pacific Islands Law Journal ©1993 Regents of the University of California; Mari Matsuda Based on an April 1990 address to the Asian Law Caucus, first published February 1993
Memo to Bush: We Will Not Be Used
© 2012 -...
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the...
– Benjamin Disraeli (via queerbois)
downloading this into my memory banks.
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My Speech at UC Berkeley's 22nd Annual Asian &...
Call: MOVEMENT IS STRUGGLE.
Response: STRUGGLE IS MOVEMENT.
I’ve been doing a ton of thinking in this period of my life about suffering in all its forms. With the theme of this year’s conference being “Struggle is movement; movement is struggle,” I find myself exactly where I’m supposed to be at this very moment. I say this because of the ways I have and continue to encounter different degrees of...
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how to annoy a fan base in 60 easy steps →
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There are as many paths to god as there are souls on earth.
– Sufi Proverb. (via resistapathy)
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st. patty's day
much like my celtic heritage, in america this holiday has transformed into a celebration of unexamined buffoonery.
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frank ocean: could this be earth? →
frankocean:
could this be light?
does this mean everything’s going to be alright?
one look out my window theres trees talking like people.
i dreamt of storms, i dreamt of sound
i dreamt of gravity, keeping us around
i slept in the darkness it was lonely
& it was silent.
& what is this love?
i don’t…
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gamble
I don’t wanna throw the dice or root for secretariat. I don’t want the prototype for truth to be embarrassment / ashamed of looking at ourselves for fear of what we might see. that’s dangerously crooked. look at hell through tears to sightsee. / glance just to your left, you’ll see the misfits and the geniuses. and on the other side you’ll notice rubbing of the penises. / politicians...
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Ali Ali Ali Babba, go tell yo’ pops and yo’ mama that Shaq is the...
– Shaquille O’Neal from his 1995 album, “Shaq Diesel” (why the comma after the period though Shaq?)
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i might have to divorce these fools →
freedom, to me...
is when one begins to move away from viewing themselves through the eyes of other people. this ability lies in direct opposition with just how inferior a person has been made to feel in their family, community, society, or lack thereof. it behooves those of us who can name this in our lives, to push towards presence & self-love whilst pushing away from judging or condemning those who have been...
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My brilliant brother Gregory Alan “g*m*tcH” Mitchell.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to...
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (via only-the-unloved-hate)
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Hetch Hetchy - Yosemite National Park