“For privileged egomaniacs, activism is a publicity stunt.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“She would learn as much as she could and do whatever she could to dismantle all that she knew to be broken, brick by brick, by. hand if she had to. She would keep the bricks, though. She would use them to build something new.”
Source: True Biz
“Hai una routine, un programma orario per ogni parte della vita. Ne hai uno anche per il pensiero? Perché non dici di no? Perché non riesci nemmeno a pensare di dire di no?”
Source: Riot days. Una prigionia politica nella Russia di Putin
“I had turned on myself. Once I heard it out loud with such venom, I became suddenly very sorry. And a realisation came awake in me: My body was not the bondage […] We are a people whose flesh grows back. It does not die quietly. We must remember this, even in the most painful conditions of our healing.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“The question of calling is not primarily a question of what we might become, but a question of what is already true—not least of which is what is true about the self. Ask me what I want to be, but not before you ask me who I want to be. Ask me who I want to be, but not before you ask me the more searing question of who I am.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“We were never meant to dismember our selfhoods. My face is my soul is my blood is my glory. When we neglect the physical, it inevitably suffocates the image of a God who ate, slept, cried, bled, grew, and healed.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Nothing is ever truly ordinary […] Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth everyplace else.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Find those who tell you, Do not be afraid, yet stay close enough to tremble with you. This is a love.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“As we heal, the need for more healing becomes apparent to us. It is painful, but healing makes us better perceivers of what is still hurting.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us