It’s easy to say “fuck cultural identities, we’re all human” when your culture is not the one being exploited, marginalized and oppressed. It’s easy to say “fuck borders” when your country is the one who puts up the borders. And it is really fucking easy to say “we all bleed red” when it’s not bodies of your people riddled with bullets because Western capitalism has a price.
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If you’re happy in a dream…does that count? The happiness–does it count?
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When he says you love too deeply, remind him he was warned.
When no one else is awake, don’t call him.
When the poems don’t come, don’t open the vodka.
When the poems don’t come, go to sleep.
When you wake up from the wanting, go back to sleep.
When he shows up in your nightmares, don’t offer your forgiveness.
When he offers you his lips, go for the throat.
‘Why is it,’ he said, one time, at the subway entrance, 'I feel I’ve known you so many years?’
‘Because I like you,’ she said, ‘and I don’t want anything from you.’
Danez Smith - “Not An Elegy for Mike Brown”
“Once, a white girl was kidnapped & that’s the Trojan war. Later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. Are we not worthy of a city of ash?”
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A Chinese businessman hid two illegally built extra storeys on his penthouse suite with trees and plants. The penthouse already had a roofgarden, but it was increased in size to deceive neighbours and officials.
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You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see.
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