“This is now, as we have seen recently, with the rise once again of autocratic regimes around the world as relevant to us as it was in the time of Socrates, Plato, Wells, and Tolkien.” — @MarcBarham33726 https://t.co/Qdixqs6MfX
“What I’m saying is this: we all have to earn a living, and part of what this means is that we live in a society in which merely staying alive is a thing that has to be earned, and not just once but all the time.” — Peter Kovalsky https://t.co/oipDp9D6Sn
“That being said, Rumi also wrote against the act of sodomy. Perhaps he was experiencing an internal conflict? We shall never know for sure.” — Tom Barrett https://t.co/voPyL4oZwH
“While all this destruction was going on, the insect world went on some wacky animated adventures, first in Antz and then in A Bug’s Life” — @EvanCPurcell https://t.co/KsFBSDQHzD
Notes on Caleb Femi’s ‘Poor’, a Life-Changing Collection of Poetry by @beckett_reece https://t.co/fw4MzPVxaR One of the best essays you'll read all year!!! @NewYorker should keep an eye on this Gen Z writer. Gorgeous!
“I used the word ‘celebrate’ intentionally. This performance was, whatever you thought of it, an act of joy. What does it say about our culture, about the critics reacting negatively to it, that such joy is dangerous?” — @colehaddon https://t.co/E9masXvA72
“I was only twelve at the time when the music video premiered, full of nastiness like a beautiful white woman with her boobs half out making out with a Black Jesus inside a church while the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses.” — @colehaddon https://t.co/vjZM9qOdjs