Them Belly Full ... But We hungry ...

Audre Lorde ...

Wherever the bird with no feet flew ... 

She found trees with no limbs ...

Rumi ...

Love itself describes its own perfection ... 

Be speechless and listen ...

Abiodun Oyewole ...

If you want to see how ugly the world is ... 

Place something beautiful in it ...

Audre Lord ...

Our feelings were not meant to survive ...

KANT ...

We are not rich by what we possess ... 

But by what we can do without ...

Anaïs Nin ...

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living ... 
Then you read a book … 
Or you take a trip … 
And you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating ... 
The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable ... 
First, restlessness ... 
The second symptom 
(When hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): 
Absence of pleasure ... 
That is all ... 
It appears like an innocuous illness ... 
Monotony, boredom, death ... 
Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it ... 
They work in offices ... 
They drive a car ... 
They picnic with their families ... 
They raise children ... 
And then some shock treatment takes place 
A person 
A book
A song 
And it awakens them and saves them from death ... 
Some never awaken ...

Sonia Sanchez (Homegirls And Handgrenades)

And I cried 
For myself 
For this woman talkin’ about love 
For all the women who have ever stretched their bodies out 
Anticipating civilization and finding ruins  

Khalil Gibran ...

You have been told that 
Even like a chain
You are as weak as your weakest link ... 

This is but half the truth ... 

You are also as strong as your strongest link ... 

To measure you by your smallest deed 
Is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam ... 

To judge you by your failures 
Is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy ...

Derrick Jensen ...

You cannot destroy a world and live on it ... It is only this culture’s monumental arrogance, abusiveness, narcissism, and stupidity that causes so many people to believe that they can ignore the needs of the world, that they can manipulate it, that they can poison it, that they can blithely exploit and consume it, that they can take from it without giving back, and that the world will, like a good victim, continue to support those who are killing it, and that it will never fight back ...

CNE 2014