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Quote of the Month: January 2020

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou; american poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist.

Quote of the Month; December 2019

“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin; american psychiatrist and author.

Quote of the Month

“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality, both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.”

~Wilhelm Reich; austrian psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and innovative iconoclast.

Quote of the Month

“We don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.”

~Donald McPherson; american academic speaker and former sports player.

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“…the magic of the writer is to become a second person narrator, floating in the background,
fragmented flesh embeds in memory as shrapnel might act an irritant…”

~$; cursed remains of an offal humanity…

Quote of the Month…July 2018

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class, it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
~ Anna Julia Cooper; american author, educator, black rights activist and scholar.

Quote of the Month…September -2017

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
~ Charles Dickens; british author and social critic.

Quote of the Month…August -2017

“I don’t think i’m easy to define. I’ve got a very wandering mind. And i’m not anything that you think i am anyway.”
~ Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett; british musician, composer, singer-songwriter and painter.

Quote of the Month…July -2017

“Previously the most lucid artists had wanted to break the separation between art and life; the Situationist International raised this demand to a higher level in their desire to abolish the distance between life and revolution.”
~ Gilles Dauve; french author, political theorist, school teacher and translator in a Critique of the Situationist International, 1979.

Quote of the Month…June -2017

“If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”
~ Anne Frank; german author.