oumkhartoum:

mehreenkasana:

Four books by Frantz Fanon - Downloadable

• The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove, 2004. Here it is.
• Black Skin, White Masks. London: Pluto, 2008. Here it is.
• A Dying Colonialism. New York, NY: Grove, 2007. Here it is.
• Toward the African Revolution. New York, NY: Grove, 1994. Here it is.

If you haven’t read Fanon, now is the time. The zip file password is: archive.

I encourage the 3 followers I have to read these wonderful works.

"All that has dark sound has duende, that mysterious power that everyone feels but no philosopher can explain."

Frederico Garcia Lorca via Nick Cave’s Love Song Lecture (via sally-johnson)

strandbooks:

Underlined passage, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 68.

All the 2012 Best-of Reading Lists, Together at Last

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hitsuzence:

Treasure, let’s count:
the madness that remembers
the madness that howls
the madness that sees
the madness that is unleashed

And you know the rest

—Aime Cesaire
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

"Charity, …is the opium of the privileged; from the good citizen who habitually drops ten kobo from his loose change and from a safe height above the bowl of the leper outside the supermarket; to the group of good citizens (like youselfs) who donate water so that some Lazarus in the slums can have a syringe boiled clean as a whistle for his jab and his sores dressed more hygienically than the rest of him; to the band Aid stars that lit up so dramatically the dark Chrismass skies of Ethiopia. While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary"

 Antihills of the Savannah p 143. Achebe, Chinua. (via katebomz)

Belief in inspiration.

Artists have an interest in the existence of a belief in the sudden occurrence of ideas, in so-called inspirations; as though the idea of a work of art, a poem, the basic proposition of a philosophy flashed down from heaven like a ray of divine grace. In reality, the imagination of a good artist or thinker is productive continually, of old, mediocre and bad things, but his power of judgment, sharpened and practiced to the highest degree, rejects, selects, knots together; as we can now see from Beethoven’s notebooks how the most glorious melodies were put together gradually and as it were culled out of many beginnings. He who selects less rigorously and likes to give himself up to his imitative memory can, under the right circumstances, become a great improviser; but artistic improvisation is something very inferior in relation to the serious and carefully fashioned artistic idea. All the great artists have been great workers, inexhaustible not only in invention but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Note to self.

"The magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with duende, in its baptising all who gaze at it with dark water, since with duende it is easier to love, to understand, and be certain of being loved, and being understood, and this struggle for expression and the communication of that expression in poetry sometimes acquires a fatal character."

- Federico García Lorca, Theory and Play Of The Duende (via crazed-maddened-eyes)

theferocity:

“What kind of beast would turn its life into words? / What atonement is this all about?” Adrienne Rich

"The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else"

Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994.  (via kenyaworkspace)