Quote for Today: Phindiwe Nkosi
We are designed to dance. To use our bodies as weapons of grace, beauty and intrigue. We are designed to stretch until we master growth. To replace old dead …
Look and Listen #13: Emi Mahmoud, How to Translate a Joke from Button Poetry
“How to Translate a Joke” is a perceptive poem about how humor and comedy can be a vehicle for prejudice and a means of enforcing the status quo. The remarkable …
Quote for Today: N.D. Wilson
To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story to remember innocence, to …
Quote for Today: M.D. Lachlan
Men who have never had to fight love a weapon. They love to hold it in their hands, feel its balance and speculate on the damage they might do, were …
Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty …
Quote for Today: Steven Galloway
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made. ―Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
Quote for Today: Miyamoto Musashi
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. ―Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five …
Quote for Today: Colson Whitehead
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable …