“How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World (via known-stranger)
(via cori-corinne)
Watch: Trust us that it’s not clickbait when we say this speech about punching Nazis was so fired up that it changed our lives
The theme of the 2017 SAG Awards was unity, unity, and more unity. For one of the final speeches of the night, David Harbour of Stranger Things collected the award for best performance by an ensemble, slinging (or rather, shouting) unity at the audience. The crowd got on its feet. In the audience, Courtney B. Vance, Lea DeLaria, and Viggo Mortensen can be spotted standing at attention.
Gifs: The SAG Awards on TNT
Dan Fox in Frieze
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
— Dylan Thomas
“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, ‘Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.’ So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”
“I think it’s quite easy to get caught up in this cycle where you forget that everyone bears the whole weight and experience of being a human being, and I think if we lose that sense of connection, that sense of empathy, we’ll lose a fundamental point of mental ease and prosperity and overall health. I guess we’ll lose a key part of what makes us human…”
— Julian Klinkewicz
“Multiculturalism becomes a kind of badge to wear, to buy into, rather than a real political project.”
“You don’t actually have to change the world – change and rebellion become another commodity. Criticism is perfectly disarmed, because you can be a good neoliberal consumer, and still feel like you’re fighting it. Zizek argues that rebelling against the system is tolerated, even promoted, so long as it stays within acceptable bounds.”
“Zizek describes political correctness as “just a form of self-discipline which doesn’t really allow you to overcome”racism, misogyny, and so on. If a political correct is dangerous, it’s because it’s a nice paint job over the same old discriminatory reality. There’s no longer a villain to rally against, just self-satisfying acts of social justice.”