Quote for Today: Gayle Rubin
Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never …
Quote for Today: John O’Donohue
Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels …
Quote for Today: Meraaqi
I want to peel away all the labels I had once given to others and place them upon the fabric of my own identity. They have reflected back to me, …
Quote for Today: Anonymous
Coloured When I was born, I was black. When I grew up, I was black. When I get hot, I am black. When I get cold, I am black. When …
Quote for Today: Edward Said
No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a …
Quote for Today: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree’, or `that is a banyan tree’, the naming of the tree, which …