“Democracy, civilization, society, all shall come, when we're aware of the duties of designation human.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Your responsibility does not end at the ballot.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help—for it
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.”
Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
“To fools, vile, hypocrites
and all kinds of stupid and despicable people,
my indifference and my silence.”
“One day you show so much indifference to someone
who gets exactly what he wants: to be forgotten.”
“Backbone not used to bear the world, is a backbone wasted.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Birth-certificate doesn't certify birth, accountability does.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Reformation of a nation isn't measured by how many big revolutions it has to face. Reformation of a nation is predicated on how many citizens it has who refuse to bend.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“And this ghost believed he was in the last phase of life. He considered his anesthesia an inevitable chapter of a human being. After a certain amount of naked bodies, blood on the walls, and vomit on the floor, the color white will look gray. Once he surrendered to gray, the uncaring world proved his worldview. He walked the sunny streets and knew no passerby would ever save him from his rainstorm. He could cry all the way to work and back unstopped. The unconcern of the world confirmed to him that he was a ghost, not only because he was deadened from the hotel, but because when he left and stepped outside it, he knew, indisputably, everyone else was dead to everyone else. To be alive is to play the role of ghost.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Love, as I'd understood it- through my mama- wasn't like the wind. Indifference was like that. Wind and indifference went wherever it pleased. Settling down when it benefited them, moving on without warning, even if it ripped a home or two apart on the way out. Love was like the sun- always there. It might've looked like it was moving- but it was forever still.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been