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Tue 26 Sep 2023

Coffee

Posted by PJ under coffee, history, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“History isn’t something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn’t politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything. It’s that coffee. You could explain much of the whole history of capitalism and empire and slavery just by talking about coffee. The amount of blood and misery that has taken place for us to sit here and sip coffee out of paper cups is incredible.”

—Matt Haig, How To Stop Time

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 23 May 2023

History

Posted by PJ under history, humility, kindness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“[History has taught me] kindness: we exist because many before us have survived hardship and have chosen to share their space, resources and stories. And humility as a scholar: we very rarely discover anything but reinterpret and add to palimpsests.”

—Prof. Olivette Otele, History Today, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 23 Jan 2023

Afterglow

Posted by PJ under history, progress, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us… but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”

—J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 14 Jan 2022

Time travel

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, history, nostalgia, quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“The New York Times reported that nearly seven in ten Republicans prefer America as it was in the fifties, a nostalgia of course entirely unavailable to a person like me, for in that period I could not vote, marry my husband, have my children, work in the university I work in, or live in my neighborhood. Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others. Meanwhile some on the left have time-travel fancies of their own, imagining that the same rigid ideological principles once applied to the matters of workers’ rights, welfare and trade can be applied unchanged to a globalized world of fluid capital.”

—Zadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair,” Feel Free

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 1 Oct 2021

Lives

Posted by PJ under history, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“they are hardly close to right,
these lives we live
one after the other,
piled there as history,
the waste of the species,
the crushing of the light and the way,
it’s not quite right,
it’s hardly right at all
he said.

—Charles Bukowski,
    “Cut While Shaving”

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 14 Jun 2021

Memory

Posted by PJ under history, memories, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“History is a people’s memory, and without memory man is demoted to the lower animals.”

—Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

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Mon 28 Sep 2020

White

Posted by PJ under history, names, power, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I think the first time ‘white’ was used was in the 1600s. Generally, we were described by where we came from…All of a sudden, this word ‘white’ came through, and now everyone is going for their own sense of power…to figure out who’s on top. There is always that 1% who looked down upon everyone else and kept us fighting each other. Until we figure that out and stop, this is where we’re headed.”

—Dennis Haysbert, Deadline, August 3, 2016

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 28 Aug 2020

Matter

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, history, quote of the day, suffering
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Random quote of the day:

“It would be fantastic if all lives mattered but all lives are not valued equally. You don’t have to know about Black history but instinctively you have to understand that when people are saying “Black Lives Matter” it’s because its Black lives that have been disproportionately suffering.”

—Prof. Olivette Otele, Elle, June 10, 2020

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 19 Jun 2020

Your story

Posted by PJ under history, holidays, quote of the day, stories
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Random quote of the day:

“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’”

—Maya Angelou, The New York Times, October 26, 2010

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 4 Jun 2020

Beans

Posted by PJ under freedom, history, justice, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

Years ago I heard that Abraham Lincoln freed the colored people, but it didn’t amount to a hill of beans.”

—Ned Cobb (aka Nate Shaw), Alabama sharecropper, quoted in All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten, 1974

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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