"Corporations want to make it so that an automotive worker can not, on a year’s pay, afford the very product he labors 12 hours a day to make."

"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with."

"A lot of people don’t heal [from trauma], and it manifests in a lot of different ways throughout their lives. There’s a study they did with Vietnam vets who’d had—clearly—a lot of trauma during the war. Twenty years later, they measured their levels of pain before and after they showed them intense footage from Vietnam. Pretty much across the board, after they saw this really intense, violent footage from the war, their levels of pain went down. Because when trauma doesn’t get to work itself through your system, your system idles at a heightened state, and so getting more really intense input calms your system down….A lot of folks who’ve survived trauma end up being really calm in crisis and freaking out in everyday life."

"I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say."

"Q: “ive been dating this girl for over a year now and have found over time that she has slept with way more dudes than i thought. she also took my virginity. i cant help but feel like this imbalance is eating away at me. got any words of advice?”

A: I’ve got plenty of words of advice, but you’re an idiot and nothing I say will stop your male ego from eventually destroying your relationship so that you can add a few notches to your bedpost. That’s fine, though. She can do better, and you need some time to fuck around and figure out what’s important. In the meantime, start using capital letters. Your shit is lazy."

White privilege

ethiopianbutamerican:

Forty-six million white  adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.

(via bad-dominicana)