Monday, July 13, 2020
He found himself in a position, a decade and a half after emancipation, not unlike many leaders of the modern civil rights movement. They have to fight to protect political and constitutional triumphs, as well as a new national historical memory, while they also face a deepening crisis of structural oppression and inequality.
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Sunday, July 12, 2020
In much of Christian tradition—in which Douglass had learned to think and write—the forgiver often forgives for his own sake, not to excuse the oppressor.
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Saturday, July 11, 2020
In other words, TNT doesn't formalize the notions of tension and resolution, goal and subgoal, "naturalness" and "inevitability", any more than a piece of music is a book about harmony and rhythm.
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Friday, July 10, 2020
He knew that all groups desire a usable past.
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Boy this makes everything worthwile reading this.
— Sid reading Lily's daily journal
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Perfect crime. I had to turn off all the lights to get it.
— Sid after rushing to grab a ginger cookie from where they were hidden from him after the power went out and everyone went outside
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Desperately, Douglass announced he "would show that nations should have memories."
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Monday, July 6, 2020
Yea, could you get me a perscription for suicide?... one for people who had good lives.
— S*
Sunday, July 5, 2020
What if everything was named that way? Lady bugs would be sister red wings, ants would be uncle three dots, moths would be brother dust wings... caterpillars, baby hair log... mosquitoes, cousin thin spring...
— Lily on if everything was named like daddy long legs
Saturday, July 4, 2020
I have to keep reminding myself of my age.
— Sid
Friday, July 3, 2020
It seems that the clarity of the outer message resides in the sheer length of the message. This is not unexpected; it parallels precisely what happens in deciphering ancient texts. Clearly, one's likelyhood of success depends crutially on the amount of text available.
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Thursday, July 2, 2020
At times Douglass's life must have seemed to him like a hundred rickety bridges held together with wire made of irony.
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
I want two peanuts before I go to bed.
— Sid opening a container of almonds
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
If that happened to me I'd have to go to boarding school.
— Lily on if she stepped on a chipmunk while running
Monday, June 29, 2020
All great autobiography is about loss, about the hopeless but necessary quest to retrieve and control a past that forever slips away. Memory is both inspiration and burden, method and subject.
— David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass
Sunday, June 28, 2020
To boot.
— Ninny, with good timing
Saturday, June 27, 2020
“A designer who must rely on cutouts and rearranging to create effects, who cannot achieve the specific image or idea he wants by drawing, is in trouble,” he told the magazine Graphis in 1960.
— William Grimes, "Milton Glaser, Master Designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ Logo, Is Dead at 91," The New York Times
Friday, June 26, 2020
Em, you're just looking at a cartoon.
— Ken on the iPhone weather app
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Walking into that space is not going to be comfortable, but that's the space that Black people live in every day.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, conversation at The Broad
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
We keep on running up against "sameness-in-differentness", and the question
When are two things the same?
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
