“Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.” LanguageSilenceViolenceSourceIntegrityUniversalExcellenceMetaphorWorking ItFormalSilence IsMute Author:Ihab Hassan
“Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.” HumansViolenceIntegrityDenyHopelessnessHelplessness Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.” HeartPassionEnergyDealsViolenceBloodColorPersonalityIntegrityHundredRedHorseStrongerLoyaltyGenerositySubtleShadeEgoismIndignationShamelessArteriesPastel Author:Vita Sackville-West
“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.” WantSometimesFacesForceEmotionViolenceSacrificeBecomingIntegritySickMedicineYour FaceInnate Author:Ariana Reines
“Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.” YearsIdeasHardEnoughGirlJusticeViolenceIntegrityMental HealthGenderIntimate Author:Peggy Orenstein
“Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To feel the integrity and generosity of words, but also their disruptive violence and volatility. To even begin to do them justice requires a radical letting go and stringent attention. I was interested in following that impulse toward liberty.” WritingMindJusticeAttentionLibertyViolenceIntegrityLetting GoRadicalGenerosityImpulseAshamed Author:Laurie Sheck