baby says if you ever see skin as fair or eyes as deep and as black as mine i know you're lying

a few quotes relevant to this time in my life:

"a person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality--and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk liberal kind of thing--it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon dental floss and there are people sleeping on the street."

-george carlin

"all forms of institutional misery and oppression are a result of class conflict, since the consciousness of all people is formed by their material situation."

-neil postman, technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology

"you say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. you say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. you say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when the wind blows. this is why i am afraid, you say that you love me too."

-william shakespeare

"not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do."

-jonathan safran foer, eating animals

"they cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they."

-malcolm x [i've been trying to find something to articulate that very concept for years--i am happy to have found this one]

"don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."

-bob marley