History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
—David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives
Author: Michael
qotd: place
The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don’t know you are looking for, and you don’t know a place until it surprises you.
—Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
qotd: freedom
If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
—David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives
qotd: disclosure
Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.
—Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
qotd: risk
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—that is to say, risking oneself.
—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
20 books of summer (ii)
From the razor-sharp short stories of Lucia Berlin to the surreal tales of Helen Oyeyemi, my summer’s been filled with great reads.
qotd: activity
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
