Whatever else Katherine Dunham was in her long and productive life, which ended on Sunday at 96, she was a radiantly beautiful woman whose warmth and sense of self spread like honey on the paths before her.
“I’m only one person and I can’t do everything. But I can do something. I will not let the fact that I can’t do everything prevent me from doing what I can.” ~Helen Keller
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
I have not much interest in anyone’s personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
It’s a man’s world, and you men can have it.
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
You can’t write about people out of textbooks, and you can’t use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
~Katherine Anne Porter
donkey o.d. is free and i do it because i enjoy it. period. that said, should anyone with more money than sense feel an overwhelming need to donate money towards the donkey’s room, board and rehabilitation, i thought i’d make it easy. i don’t expect anyone to take advantage of this and won’t think less of you if you don’t. but i have recently been convinced that i should at least make it possible for those who want to express their gratitude in a financial way to do so.
i can only guarantee that the donkey will use the money for good, not evil, i.e. you won’t see me donating to the bush cabal. but i should make clear that you won’t get anything in return for your donation beyond my eternal gratitude, i.e. no guarantee of any preferential treatment for you above and beyond those of any other reader.
anyway, feel free to send your spare pennies, pesetas, cents, beads, or shells to the donkey if you really feel like it, but please don’t feel obligated.
how to:
go to paypal.com and click on the ’send money’ tab and use this email address: donkeyod (at) gmail (dot) com. the rest is self-explanatory. if you have a problem, let me know.
THANKS!
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. ~William Butler Yeats
UN Committee Against Torture Hears Report on How Police Tortured Over 135 African-American Men Inside Chicago Jails
For nearly two decades a part of the city¹s jails known as Area 2 was the epicenter for what has been described as the systematic torture of dozens of African-American males by Chicago police officers. In total, more than 135 people say they were subjected to abuse including having guns forced into their mouths, bags places over their heads, and electric shocks inflicted to their genitals. Four men have been released from death row after government investigators concluded torture led to their wrongful convictions.
…the land of the freaks and the home of the depraved.
1933 FELTON TURNER 2006 Rest in Peace