“The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.” WantMatterStatesHomeHappensWinningNationsOilCaliforniaDinosaursHome State Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'” GivingHomeAmericaBeautifulSongPoorLibertyPrinciplesClearMassGive MeTiredSticksBreatheOilYearningPatriotStatuesMonumentGrandmaPostcardsStatue Of LibertyCutters Book:Rebuild the Dream Source: Rebuild the Dream
“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission” IfsWantTryingI CanHomeBodyGirlHurtSecretStruggleShareTerribleSkinsShameSacredSorryOilBrilliantListsHealDesperateAshamedPatriarchySubmissionDepravedBeing Sad Author:Warsan Shire
“Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.” PeopleMadeHomeFoodCookingWineOilBreadCulinaryOlivesGarlicOlive OilFlasks Author:Patience Gray
“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.” CharacterHomeTogetherSidesToo MuchDoorsColorOilExcellentIngredientsConnectingGood And BadStaminaIncomparableVinegarInsufferable Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater