Poc Quotes

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La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...
Mercè Rodoreda (La plaça del Diamant)
Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.
Randi Pink (Into White)
…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours.
Sonora Reyes (The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School)
If I could wave a magic wand and eliminate one term from the lexicon of racism discussion, it would be “reverse-racism”. It’s the go-to of every clueless person who can’t be bothered to take any time to understand anything about history or context. Every time I hear it, my faith in humanity diminishes. Use of that term is the easiest way to tell that someone has no idea what racism actually is. These are the same people who will, in response to a POC’s complex and nuanced understanding of racism, quote the dictionary definition to us. They can’t fathom that we know more about our own experiences than the dictionary. ‘Reverse-racism’ is not a thing. Tell your friends.
Mia McKenzie (Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender)
The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.
George Elliott Clarke (Whylah Falls)
Support POC-owned business. Economic exploitation is one of the cornerstones of racial oppression. You can help preserve financial independence for people of color by working with and spending your money with POC businesses.
Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race)
The point is to make room for POC to prioritize their own well-being over the “education” of white people, which I don’t think we allow ourselves enough. White supremacy demands that we centralize whiteness at all times, even when we are supposed to be taking care of ourselves. I reject the idea that white people’s education about my experiences of racism is more important than my psychological well-being and my right to say no to that kind of engagement.
Mia McKenzie (Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender)
I use the term ‘POC’ because it is a convenient way to group all non-whites together without having to go to the trouble of identifying their differences. Needless to say, this is particularly helpful when it comes to oriental countries like Japan, China and Siam, whose citizens are pretty much indistinguishable.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
look for the women in the room who have less space than you listen hear them and act on what they’re saying - amplify indigenous. trans. black. brown. women of color voices
Rupi Kaur (Home Body)
I'm not white, no, but I'm just close enough that I could be, and just far enough that you know I'm not. I can check off a diversity box for you and I don't make you nervous - at least not on the surface. I'm the whole package!
Scaachi Koul (One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter)
What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being alien and foreign and strange even in the place where I was born, and about the immortality that wove through my parents' lives but ultimately would fail them. Their immortality belonged to other people, and I hated that.
Nghi Vo (Siren Queen)
by virtue of living in a racist world nonblack people are raised to be antiblack we are all taught that lighter is better - undoing
Rupi Kaur (Home Body)
I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new fury with all your wide futures promised I am woman and not white.
Audre Lorde
Pe urma, un timp, am surzit, era grozav, nu mai auzeam nimic, facusem dopuri de ceara, solide, eram ca o sticla plina cu simplitatea pura si libera a starii mele, aratam cu degetul la ureche: “sunt surd, ce sa-i faci!”, zâmbeam nevinovat, ceilalti întelegeau, unii ma si compatimeau desi pareau bucurosi ca ei aud, scapasem, n-aveau decât sa se distinga ei în mozaicul lor de întrebari si de raspunsuri gata desenate, n-aveau decât sa-ti teoretizeze singuri teoria, sa-ti toace varza sonora printre dulcile bucurii ale dresajului. Nenorocirea e ca, într-o buna zi, poc! mi-au pleznit dopurile si am început iar sa aud, as fi putut în schimb sa nu vorbesc, sa ma autoamutesc, dar mi se parea aiurea, ar fi fost necinstit si apoi, oricât te-ai amuti, cuvintele tot le auzi, ele ti se strecoara nestingherite prin maduva, asa ca mi-am vazut de treburile mele.
Gellu Naum (Zenobia)
When pro-lifers buy into the lie that one child is more valuable and worthy of protection than another because it is further along or happens to be a product of a violent and inexcusable sexual act, then we are condoning the violent slaughter of children and, like the people working in POC labs across the country, we have the blood of innocents on our hands. Abortion
Abby Johnson (The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories)
Remember, and feel free to remind white allies, that you don’t need permission from anyone to pursue self-care. Invite them to spend less time policing POC behavior and more time investigating long-standing systems of oppression and their impact.
Dalia Kinsey (Decolonizing Wellness)
There is no racism against white people. If you can turn on the tv and see people like you that's not racism. If you can have your favorite characters who are poc race changed to look like you then you don't face racism. If you don't think about Ferguson every single second because your race is being killed every hour, that's not racism. If you don't get called derogatory slurs because of your skin tone that's not racism. If you don't hate your body because of your race that's not racism. If you don't have to go through life knowing people will think of you as ugly or disgusting and hate you simply because your white that's not racism. You don't face racism for being white. Ya people can be jerks about it. But its not institutionalized. That's like saying you face discrimination for being straight. It's not a thing. You don't face racism. You might want to get over that
Adam snowflake
Do you think you can escape me so easily. What? Just drive off to Dallas and think I won’t find you?” “I tried.” I half smiled, and he grinned. “I’ll follow you to the ends of the earth because you are most definitely worth it.
Sajni Patel (The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1))
Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.
R.Y.S. Perez (I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection)
Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes.
Sonora Reyes (The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School)
We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don't you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don't you ever just want to be human?
Christina Hammonds Reed (The Black Kids)
Quant pot valdre la vida humana si recordem que fa poc morien milions de persones per causes no naturals? Estem plens d’odi i de prejudicis.
Svetlana Alexievich (Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka)
Mentre llegia, em vaig enamorar tal com t'adorms: a poc a poc, i després, de cop.
John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
THE PLEDGE OF ANNOYANCE I pledge allegiance to the Flag and to these feet which I do drag And to the Republic for which it stands on my last nerve and my two hands With liberty and Justice for all, suspended for not playing small
Jason Reynolds (Miles Morales Suspended)
Era un d'aquells sentiments purs que no entrebanquen l'exercici de la vida, mantinguts gelosament perquè són poc comuns, una d'aquestes il·lusions la pèrdua de les quals trasbalsen molt més l'ànima que no ho farien els gaudis de la possessió.
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
Can someone tell me why a person of color would need a white man to save her? Like that’s what I keep on seeing in the media when it comes to POC women talking about POC feminism. Hello? We need a POC woman to stand up for all women. I’ll take the lead!
Laika Constantino
If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new
Adam snowflake
On the Hunger Games Fan Race fail and the portrayal of POC in fantasy literature: It is as if the POC in the text are walking around with a great big red sign over them for some editors and it reads I AM NOT A REAL CHARACTER. I AM A PROBLEM YOU MUST DEAL WITH. The white characters are permitted to saunter about with their physical descriptions hanging out all over the place, but best not make mention of dark skin or woolly/curly hair or dark eyes (Unless, of course, that character is white. None of my white-skinned dark-eyed characters had any problem being described as such. And I’m pretty sure that Sól’s curly hair never gave anyone a single pause for thought.) As I said, I understand the desire not to define a POC simply by their physical attributes, and I understand cutting physical descriptions if no other character is described physically – but pussyfooting about in this manner with POC is doing nothing but white wash the characters themselves. It’s already much too hard to get readers to latch onto the fact that some characters may not be caucasian, why must we dance about their physical description as if it were some kind of shameful dirty little secret. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the way homosexuality used to only ever be hinted at in texts. It was up to the reader to ‘read between the lines’ or ‘its there if you look for it’ and all that total bullshit which used to be the norm.
Celine Kiernan
—Van ser feliços, Edita. —Però ha durat tan poc… —La vida, qualsevol vida, dura molt poc. Però si has pogut ser feliç, ni que sigui un instant, haurà valgut la pena viure-la. —Un instant! Com de curt? —Molt curt. N'hi ha prou de ser feliç l'estona que triga un llumí a encendre's i apagar-se.
Antonio Iturbe (La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz)
A rural Venus, Selah rises from the gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps petals of water from her skin. At once, clouds begin to sob for such beauty. Clothing drops like leaves. "No one makes poetry,my Mme. Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,” I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with our souls.” Desire illuminates the dark manuscript of our skin with beetles and butterflies. After the lightning and rain has ceased, after the lightning and rain of lovemaking has ceased, Selah will dive again into the sunflower-open river.
George Elliott Clarke (Whylah Falls)
Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
It's not just about Rodney. It's about all of us.
Christina Hammonds Reed (The Black Kids)
Native Americans cured Cartier's men of scurvy near Montreal in 1535. They repaired Francis Drake's Golden Hind in California so he could complete his round-the-world voyage in 1579. Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific Northwest was made possible by tribe after tribe of American Indians, with help from two Shoshone guides, Sacagawea and Toby, who served as interpreters. When Admiral Peary discovered the North Pole, the first person there was probably neither the European American Peary nor the African American Matthew Henson, his assistant, but their four Inuit guides, men and women on whom the entire expedition relied. Our histories fail to mention such assistance. They portray proud Western conquerors bestriding the world like the Colossus at Rhodes. So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say "discover," they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.
James W. Loewen
didn’t want to be with people for whom liberation was a vitamin, a nice thing that might enhance their lives and make things better and would be super cool and awesome if it came about. I wanted to be with people for whom liberation was a medicine, something without which they would simply die. That is why I went to the queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, POC sex party.
Carvell Wallace (Another Word for Love: A Memoir)
Però sí que temia el pas del temps (…), el minvament de la vida; com any rere any s'anava reduint la part que li corresponia; que poc podia estirar-se ja el marge que li quedava per absorbir, com en els anys de joventut, els colors, els gustos, les tonalitats de l'existència, quan en entrar en una habitació l'omplia i, aturant-se un instant al llindar de la sala, sentia una incertesa exquisida…
Virginia Woolf (TO THE LIGHTHOUSE)
Però sí que temia el pas del temps (...), el minvament de la vida; com any rere any s'anava reduint la part que li corresponia; que poc podia estirar-se ja el marge que li quedava per absorbir, com en els anys de joventut, els colors, els gustos, les tonalitats de l'existència, quan en entrar en una habitació l'omplia i, aturant-se un instant al llindar de la sala, sentia una incertesa exquisida...
Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
When you hear stories from other people like you, you feel less alone. When you feel less alone, and like you have a community of people behind you, alongside you, I believe you can live a better life.
Tommy Orange (There There)
Crec en el que pensava el gran poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge sobre quins eren els punts cardinals de l'educació primerenca: «Treballar amb amor i així crear amor. Acostumar la ment a la precisió intel·lectual i la veritat. Estimular el poder de la imaginació». Coleridge conclou la seva obra Lecture on Education amb aquestes paraules: «Ben poc s'aprèn de la competició o la baralla, tot s'aprèn de la comprensió i de l'amor».
Miriam Toews (Women Talking)
Imagine if you will, experiencing an act of violence and then being asked to talk about what you experienced without expressing any strong emotions. This is clearly inhumane. To be human is to feel. To talk about pain without expressing pain is to expect a human to recall information like a robot. When you insist that BiPOC talk about their painful experiences with racism without expressing any pain, rage or grief, you are asking them to dehumanize themselves.
Layla F. Saad (Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor)
Perquè el que té la bellesa és que només és bonica fora d'ella mateixa. Vist a través d'un mirall, vaig veure el meu cos com si fos el d'un altre, un noiet que tenia a pocs metres, d'expressió impertorbable, reptant la pròpia pell a quedar-se com estava, com si el sol, en pondre's, no fos ja en alguna altra banda, com si no fos a Ohio. Vaig aconseguir el que volia: que vingués un noi nedant cap a mi. I això que jo no era cap platja, mama. Jo era unes fustes que suraven i intentava recordar d'on m'havia desprès per arribar fins allà.
Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
No hi havia a València dos amants com nosaltres. Feroçment ens amàvem del matí a la nit. Tot ho recorde mentre vas estenent la roba. Han passat anys, molts anys; han passat moltes coses. De sobte encara em pren aquell vent o l'amor i rodolem per terra entre abraços i besos. No comprenem l'amor com un costum amable com un costum pacífic de compliment i teles (i que ens perdone el cast senyor López-Picó). Es desperta, de sobte, com un vell huracà, i ens tomba en terra els dos, ens ajunta, ens empeny. Jo desitjava, a voltes, un amor educat i en marxa el tocadiscos, negligentment besant-te, ara un muscle i després el peçó d'una orella. El nostre amor és un amor brusc i salvatge, i tenim l'enyorança amarga de la terra, d'anar a rebolcons entre besos i arraps. Què voleu que hi faça! Elemental, ja ho sé. Ignorem el Petrarca i ignorem moltes coses. Les Estances de Riba i les Rimas de Bécquer. Després, tombats en terra de qualsevol manera, comprenem que som bàrbars, i que això no deu ser, que no estem en l'edat, i tot això i allò. No hi havia a València dos amants com nosaltres, car d'amants com nosaltres en són parits ben pocs.
Vicent Andrés Estellés (Llibre de meravelles)
Though we came from our native Hawaiian mother, Chad and I were perceived and therefore raised as black, which widely cast us as outsiders, nonlocals - and being seen as local in Hawaii was currency. When we first returned to Oahu, we spoke with a Texas twang that also got us teased. Chad has strong emotions surrounding those first few months; he was traumatized by his apparent blackness, which was a nonevent in Dallas and Oakland, where we were among many black kids. In Hawaii, we were some of the few mixed black kids around. And both our parents taught us that because the world would perceive us as black, we were black.
Janet Mock (Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More)
Who you have feelings for—that is not a choice. Feelings happen whether you want them to or not. But love isn’t a feeling; it’s the act of planting a seed and putting in the time and care it needs to grow. It demands hard work and renewal to survive. It demands commitment. By necessity, it cannot be taken lightly.
Farah Naz Rishi (It All Comes Back to You: A YA Rom-Com About Exes, Their Dating Siblings, and Secrets)
I love analogies! Let’s have one. Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind of food. There are some places in town that do this particular cuisine just amazingly. Lots of people who are into this kind of food hold these restaurants in high regard. But let’s say, at every single one of these places, every now and then throughout the meal, at random moments, the waiter comes over and punches any women at the table right in the face. And people of color and/or LGBT folks as well! Now, most of the white straight cis guys who eat there, they have no problem–after all, the waiter isn’t punching them in the face, and the non-white, non-cis, non-straight, non-guys who love this cuisine keep coming back so it can’t be that bad, can it? Hell, half the time the white straight cis guys don’t even see it, because it’s always been like that and it just seems like part of the dining experience. Granted, some white straight cis guys have noticed and will talk about how they don’t like it and they wish it would stop. Every now and then, you go through a meal without the waiter punching you in the face–they just give you a small slap, or come over and sort of make a feint and then tell you they could have messed you up bad. Which, you know, that’s better, right? Kind of? Now. Somebody gets the idea to open a restaurant where everything is exactly as delicious as the other places–but the waiters won’t punch you in the face. Not even once, not even a little bit. Women and POC and LGBT and various combinations thereof flock to this place, and praise it to the skies. And then some white, straight, cis dude–one of the ones who’s on record as publicly disapproving of punching diners in the face, who has expressed the wish that it would stop (maybe even been very indignant on this topic in a blog post or two) says, “Sure, but it’s not anything really important or significant. It’s getting all blown out of proportion. The food is exactly the same! In fact, some of it is awfully retro. You’re just all relieved cause you’re not getting punched in the face, but it’s not really a significant development in this city’s culinary scene. Why couldn’t they have actually advanced the state of food preparation? Huh? Now that would have been worth getting excited about.” Think about that. Seriously, think. Let me tell you, being able to enjoy my delicious supper without being punched in the face is a pretty serious advancement. And only the folks who don’t get routinely assaulted when they try to eat could think otherwise.
Ann Leckie
I think it's very dangerous to start censoring what authors should and shouldn't write." I open strong, and this gets some approving murmurs from the crowd. But I still see some skeptical faces, especially from the other Asians present, so I continue. "I'd hate to live in a world where we tell people what they should and shouldn't write based on the color of their skin. I mean, turn what you're saying around and see how it sounds. Can a Black writer not write a novel with a white protagonist? What about everyone who has written about World War Two, and never lived through it? You can critique a work on the grounds of literary quality, and its representations of history—sure. But I see no reason why I shouldn't tackle this subject if I'm willing to do the work. And as you can tell by the text, I did do the work. You can look up my bibliographies. You can do the fact- checking yourself. Meanwhile, I think writing is fundamentally an exercise in empathy. Reading lets us live in someone else's shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller. And as for the question of profit—I mean, should every writer who writes about dark things feel guilty about it? Should creatives not be paid for their work?
R.F. Kuang (Yellowface)
August, diu, sé el que són aquestes (assenyala les lletres). Són lletres. Però aquestes coses petites, què són? Li dic que són comes, que marquen una pausa curta, o un respir, al text. Ella somriu, després inspira, com si es volgués tornar a empassar les paraules, ficar-se-les altre cop dins del cos, potser per oferir unes paraules a la criatura que encara no ha nascut, la narració, la seva… Però no diu res més i jo maldo per respondre-li. Sabies, li dic, que hi ha una papallona que es diu Coma? Respira amb dificultat. És una reacció tan poc apropiada, tan còmica… Ah, sí?, pregunta. Sí, li dic, es diu Coma perquè… Però ella m'atura. No, diu, deixa-m'ho endevinar. Perquè vola de la fulla a la tija i al pètal, només amb una pausa molt breu? Perquè el seu viatge és la seva història, no parar mai, només una pausa breu, sempre en moviment? Somric i assenteixo. Exactament, dic, és això! L'Ona es clava un cop de puny al palmell: Ahà! Se'n torna al seu seient. Però no és veritat, no és aquesta la raó del nom de la papallona Coma. I per descomptat que hi ha punts en els textos, pauses en els viatges. Aturades. La raó autèntica, banal, és que la papallona té una taca a sota de l'ala que sembla una coma.
Miriam Toews (Women Talking)
With diversity things I know people are always like, "oh don't force diversity!" I'm of the opinion that if I read your book and at the end of the book I'm like, it's kinda weird that there are no black people in this? Bad world building. The way I find easiest to explain especially to people who are maybe hesitant to change, is that if you took 100 random people off of the earth and were like "here's 100 people!" The chances of every single one of them being pale white and straight are very unlikely. So when I read a book and you introduce me to over a hundred characters and every single one of them is pale white and straight, it's bad world building. It doesn't feel like a real place to me.
Kaylee Jaye
When we talked about "A Modest Proposal" I felt like I was running circles around everybody. I understood that shit better than the professor 'cause he was just a fan. I wasn't an Irishman, but I knew how it felt to have someone standing over you, controlling your life and wanting to call it something else. From the people at the Christian Fellowship to First Academy to my parents to Confucius to thousands of years of ass-backwards Chinese thinking, I knew how it felt. Everything my parents did to me and their parents did to them was justified under the banner of Tradition, Family, and Culture. And when it wasn't them it was someone impressing Christianity onto me and when it wasn't Christianity it was whiteness.
Eddie Huang (Fresh Off the Boat)
What on earth did we do wrong? What harm did we inflict? What did we do to you? Who are you to judge us? Who gave you the right? Are you the representatives of mankind, or what? Who appointed you? Was it God? Yourselves? You don't care if someone loves to go bowling or shooting! You don't care if someone wants to be a doctor or a flight attendant! So why can't we love someone of the same gender? What makes you say that the way we love is wrong? Because we're not "normal"? Because we don't abide by the provisions of God? The laws of nature? Well, fuck you. What a load of bullshit. You want to create a land for God? Good. Then let's bring back the regulations on sex positions first! Don't use condoms, and only fuck in the missionary position, damn it! Since sex should only be for childbirth, and any other pleasure is against the will of God, am I right? Come to think of it, you guys are fucking disgusting. I mean, I know you all fuck doggy-style and blow each other! So I guess you're all going to hell as well! The same goes for singles who don't copulate at all! If the union of man and woman is what is "normal", singles are the most abnormal of all! You're all going to hell, too! On, and let's just kill all the ugly people, fat people, and poor people while we're at it. Then it'll be heaven on earth, with no abnormal beings! Where the normal are free to kill the abnormal! If you ask me, you uneducated, narrow-minded scumbags are the ones that degrade human nobility! You're fucking revolting! Ignorant morons! Do you feel good? Or pissed off? Mad? Then come at me! Instead of being fucking cowards, bashing someone that's all tied up. Won't it be more fun to beat up a person of color? Kill me before I infect your brains and turn all of you into homosexuals! Kill me first! Stupid scumbags!
JUNS (Dark Heaven)
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Quan marxa de casa vestida així, a trenc de dia, em sento l'esclau predilecte a qui confien l'anella carregada de claus. Em fa un petó incert, ni curt ni llarg, un petó on ella ja no hi és, i tanca la porta de cop, poderosa com mai. Llavors és quan m'adono que alguna cosa viva s'asseu dins meu, de fet s'arrepapa i xiula mentre contempla el cel que baixa a poc a poc, com si ballés. Em sorprèn, aquesta manca de culpabilitat on conflueixen l'amor, que sempre empeny enfora, i la tiba cap endins. L'amor no se'n va amb la Samsa, però tampoc és amb mi, pertany al voler. I estimar-la és justament això, voler que hi sigui amb cada fibra de teixit i de pensament, des del moll de cadascun dels ossos. Voler-ho amb tots els exèrcits. Amb fam, amb febre, amb desesperació.
Eva Baltasar (Boulder)
Tampoc entenc aquest dolor, molesta poc però sempre és present. Creia que m'atacaria, que aprofitaria el cansament de la nit per clavar-se'm amb ungles i dents. Estava preparada per al plor. Però no, tinc un dolor que és com un gos. Jau en un racó i em llepa la ferida. La manté tendra i oberta, va fent. Navego i estic molt sola.
Eva Baltasar (Boulder)
D'aquella tenebra que a Banja Luka gairebé es podia tocar, sentir-ne les fibres amb la llengua, un cop t'ha entrat a la circulació i se t'ha escampat pels pulmons, el fetge, el cervell, ja no en tornes a estar neta. De tant en tant surt a la superfície de la pell i la fa més aspra i freda, l’afebleix a poc a poc, mentre les satisfaccions diàries esdevenen del tot trivials, i aquella felicitat senzilla amb què comptaves se t'escapa entre les teves mans maldestres.
Lana Bastašić (Catch the Rabbit)
Statistically, GHB is most commonly used by POC and LGBTQ+ groups from low-income backgrounds who cannot afford the limitless amount of ketamine, coke, and alcohol during their nights out. Why not put the energy into educating and providing your community with providing harm reduction guides on how to use it rather than shame and condemn it. The ban approach hasn't worked for the scene in the past decade, if anything it's killing more people, harming more communities and scrutinizing our spaces even more.
Salman Jaberi (Rave Scout Cookies Handbook (#001))
One way or another, white people always found a way to fuck a brown woman over.
Vivek Shraya (The Subtweet)
Marca POC de 10 a 20 segundos: • Ejercicio para destaponar la nariz. • Respirar por la nariz en todo momento. • Evitar suspirar y tomar grandes bocanadas de aire. • Practicar la máxima «respirar suave es respirar correctamente», en reposo y durante el ejercicio físico.
Patrick McKeown (El poder del oxígeno (Spanish Edition))
Detener la pérdida de dióxido de carbono • Respira por la nariz, tanto de día como de noche. • Deja de suspirar: trágate o reprime esos suspiros. Un suspiro cada pocos minutos es suficiente para mantener el exceso crónico de respiración, por lo que debes compensar tragándotelo o conteniendo la respiración. Si solo notas los suspiros una vez se hayan escapado, contén la respiración de 10 a 15 segundos para ayudar a compensar la pérdida de dióxido de carbono. • Evita dar grandes bocanadas de aire al bostezar o al hablar. Quienes tienen una marca POC baja suelen estar cansados y bostezan con frecuencia durante el día; por ello, trata de no respirar profundamente al bostezar. Del mismo modo, quienes tienen que hablar mucho en el trabajo deben ser conscientes de que su respiración no ha de escucharse durante la conversación.
Patrick McKeown (El poder del oxígeno (Spanish Edition))
Extingir el misteri de milers de descobriments d'espècies desconegudes. Convertir els amagatalls d'un bosc en una planura de monocultiu. Aniquilar milers de futurs d'infants, amb les seves vides asfixiades per l'avarícia d'uns pocs. Estem davant la fi de la bellesa.
Alex Nogués (Severn Cullis-Suzuki: Feu que les vostres accions reflecteixin les vostres paraules)
»Però realment voleu renunciar a qui sou? Sé que aquesta herència té els seus punts febles, però també en te molts de positius. Aprecieu detalls que passen inadvertits per altres, podeu ser capaces de sentir sensacions úniques vívidament, alterar a voluntat el vostre entorn, i se us retorna el poder que la societat li ha pres a les dones. »I si bé us han fet creure tota la vida que és un do de pocs, penseu que hi ha qui diu que tots tenim aquestes habilitats, només que uns tenen més facilitat que altres per aprendre-les. És com tirar amb arc, o brandar una espasa. Per més que hagin dit tota la vida que una dona no pot fer-ho, no és veritat que no la pugui subjectar amb les mans, ni fer-la anar en combat si pràctica. Així que encara amb més motiu, deixareu escapar aquesta facilitat que us dona avantatge en la vida? Ja us han pres prou poder, deixareu escapar el que ara se us dona?
JUDIT VARELA MARTÍNEZ (BITERNA (Catalan Edition))
«Feia tants dies, mesos, que no sentia l’impuls d’escriure, d’escriure literàriament alguna cosa digne de ser llegida, que segurament no s’hi hauria agafat si no hagués estat per la pluja. La pluja l’havia inspirat mil vegades des de l’adolescència, i al llarg de gairebé quaranta anys fins el dia d’avui, però feia tants dies, mesos, que l’impuls no l’agafava pels pebrots i el llençava a l’abisme d’omplir de lletres la pantalla blanca i buida, que quan per fi es va decidir, no sabia on agafar-se. La novel·la inacabada de torn, per no parlar de les que feia anys que dormien el son sord dels avortaments, li semblava massa enrevessada per a aquella engruna d’inspiració filla d’un ruixat: es passaria una hora rellegint cabdellets, una altra perfilant l’agulla, i perdria el fil abans de lligar la primera puntada. Potser podia repassar un dels darrers contes, que són fàcils d’entallar però sovint costa acabar de cosir, tot i que fins i tot això li resultava remot, com l’eco de una veu que ja no sentia seva. D’altra banda, devia tenir mig centenar de contes polits i a punt d’editar que també dormien als llimbs, probablement per sempre. Li constava que la literatura, o més ben dit l’esforç narratiu creatiu, li havia salvat la vida. Li havia justificat gairebé quatre dècades de respirar i fer la viu-viu, esperant sempre que al capdavall ell, ell com a individu més enllà de cap altra persona, hi descobrís un sentit genuí, transcendent, que li compensés poc o molt totes les hores, esperances, il·lusions i etcèteres que ja a l’adolescència i sense ser-ne gaire conscient havia dipositat en la màgia, sovint desagraïda per no dir traïdora, de la creació literària». · Les muses - Jordi Cussà
Les muses (Catalan Edition)
«Feia tants dies, mesos, que no sentia l’impuls d’escriure, d’escriure literàriament alguna cosa digne de ser llegida, que segurament no s’hi hauria agafat si no hagués estat per la pluja. La pluja l’havia inspirat mil vegades des de l’adolescència, i al llarg de gairebé quaranta anys fins el dia d’avui, però feia tants dies, mesos, que l’impuls no l’agafava pels pebrots i el llençava a l’abisme d’omplir de lletres la pantalla blanca i buida, que quan per fi es va decidir, no sabia on agafar-se. La novel·la inacabada de torn, per no parlar de les que feia anys que dormien el son sord dels avortaments, li semblava massa enrevessada per a aquella engruna d’inspiració filla d’un ruixat: es passaria una hora rellegint cabdellets, una altra perfilant l’agulla, i perdria el fil abans de lligar la primera puntada. Potser podia repassar un dels darrers contes, que són fàcils d’entallar però sovint costa acabar de cosir, tot i que fins i tot això li resultava remot, com l’eco de una veu que ja no sentia seva. D’altra banda, devia tenir mig centenar de contes polits i a punt d’editar que també dormien als llimbs, probablement per sempre. Li constava que la literatura, o més ben dit l’esforç narratiu creatiu, li havia salvat la vida. Li havia justificat gairebé quatre dècades de respirar i fer la viu-viu, esperant sempre que al capdavall ell, ell com a individu més enllà de cap altra persona, hi descobrís un sentit genuí, transcendent, que li compensés poc o molt totes les hores, esperances, il·lusions i etcèteres que ja a l’adolescència i sense ser-ne gaire conscient havia dipositat en la màgia, sovint desagraïda per no dir traïdora, de la creació literària». · Les muses - Jordi Cussà Balaguer
Les muses (Catalan Edition)
I had never said those words because there were no words left. My beloved and I were both exiles from language. Our love couldn't be expressed in words. Our love had been woven into the melodies rendered by his flute, and it was subsumed in the atoms of the air we breathed. It had been consecrated in this shrine. It had never been named. It was an unnamed thing that had remained unspoken, unuttered, unsaid. I did not need to name it when he could already hear it.
Faiqa Mansab (This House of Clay and Water)
My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.
R.Y.S. Perez (I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection)
No treballi tant, senyor secretari, deixi la paperassa i vingui a finestrejar. Guaiti, fixi's en aqueixa noia tan bonica que travessa la plaça. No badi, cregui'm, això dura poc. En un tres i no res, passem d'embrions incerts a calaveres atònites.
Jesús Moncada (Calaveres atònites)
A poc a poc, molt a poc a poc, es va incorporar, i en el moment de fer-ho es va sentir més viu i més conscient que mai del seu cos ple de vida. ¿Com era que no s'havia adonat mai del miracle que era la seva persona, cervell i múscul i cor palpitant?
J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
El cor li bategava contra la post del pit com un ocell esverat. Potser sabia que li quedava poc temps; potser estava decidit a fer tots els batecs d'una vida abans que li toqués aturar-se.
J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
No, Sonja, non è quello!” egli rispose, sollevando d’un tratto il capo, come se un improvviso nuovo giro di pensieri lo avesse colpito e di nuovo eccitato, “non è quello! Ma piuttosto… supponi (sì! così infatti è meglio!) supponi che io sia egoista, invidioso, malvagio, abietto, vendicativo, e… magari anche incline alla pazzia. (Tutto questo insieme! Della pazzia si parlava già prima, me n’ero accorto!) Dunque ti ho detto poc’anzi che non potevo mantenermi all’università. Ma sai tu che forse lo potevo anche? Mia madre mi avrebbe mandato di che pagare quel che occorreva, e quanto alle scarpe, ai vestiti e al pane, avrei provveduto col mio lavoro, di sicuro! Lezioni se ne presentavano; mi si offriva mezzo rublo per ciascuna. Lavora pure Razumichin! Ma io m’incattivii e non volli. Per l’appunto mi incattivii (ecco una bella parola!) Allora, come un ragno, mi ficcai nel mio cantuccio. Tu sei stata nel mio canile, hai veduto… E sai, Sonja, che i soffitti bassi e le camere strette opprimono l’anima e l’intelligenza? Oh, quanto odiavo quel canile! E tuttavia non ne volevo uscire. Apposta non lo volevo! Per interi giorni non ne uscivo e non volevo lavorare, e non volevo neppur mangiare, stavo sempre disteso. Se Nastas’ja me ne portava, mangiavo; se non me ne portava, la giornata passava così; apposta, per rabbia, non ne chiedevo! Di notte non avevo lume, stavo coricato al buio, non volevo lavorare per comprarmi delle candele! Bisognava studiare e io avevo venduto tutti i libri; e sulla mia tavola, sugli appunti e sui quaderni, c’è anche adesso un dito di polvere. Preferivo stare sdraiato e pensare. E pensavo sempre. E facevo sempre certi sogni, una quantità di sogni strani, non è il caso di dir quali! Solo che allora cominciò anche a sembrarmi che… No, non è così! Di nuovo non racconto bene! vedi, allora mi domandavo sempre: perché sono così stupido? Perché, se sono stupidi gli altri, ed io so di sicuro che sono stupidi, non cerco di essere più intelligente di loro?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El sol penjava damunt del cèrcol obscur com una amenaça. A mida que s'hi atansava anava percebent l'olor de la brutícia i de les pedres escalfades per aquell sol eixut i fatigat. Se sentien pocs sorolls, i quan hi era a la vora tot fou silenci. Els qui s'atansaven al camp eren familiars que hi acudien sols o de dos en dos, capcots, tristos amb la desesperació resignada dels vençuts.
Lluís Bosch
MALVIATGE! Un déu menor, exigent i mel·liflu, et té sotmès i la vida et transcorre entre sobtats aürts de la memòria i un cansament profund com un estigma. Secretament et contes mil facècies i molt sovint et buides les butxaques frisós i absent, amb por de retrobar-te. On són les veus i els gestos i les formes? On és l'enuig i el crit i les mirades? Se't fa de nit i no tens cap resposta; se't fa de nit i penses moltes coses, aviciat a destriar figures quan és ben fosc i el déu menor reposa. Odies aquest pou mort i l'estranya solemnitat de pedra i de crepuscle, odies aquest temps que et mig sustenta, i t'odies a tu, ninot grotesc, endeutat amb algú que, a poc a poc, et converteix per mofa en una mena de sorprenent i grotesc saltimbanqui.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Quietud perduda)
Me'n vaig per sempre, però tornaré. Discretament aposto pel futur, discretament, perquè me'n queda poc.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Quietud perduda)
Vida secreta Només allò que és íntim sobreviu i, a poc a poc, es converteix en l’àmbit en què, cansat, reposo del desori de cada dia. Jo i els meus records salvats curosament de l’escomesa d’una vida viscuda com qui fa camí amb el vent de cara i no se sent gairebé mai compromès amb el ritme que li dicten els deures i les modes. Només l’imaginari converteix el fer i desfer en una altra lucidesa agosarada i tràgica. Després, tot el que quedi escrit a les parets dels sentits balbs serà vida secreta, l’única que em pertany i que puc sempre contemplar, temerari i desimbolt, com qui s’inventa una nova memòria.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Després de tot)
A precari Des d’un ponent eixut, contradictori. Tot el que tinc és poc per redreçar dignament la malmesa singladura. Tampoc no em sobra temps. I, això no obstant, els versos pel seu compte bescanvien silencis per paraules i exigeixen un alt tribut de vida. No puc, doncs, reposar ni vull fer-ho. Més m’estimo veure’m entrar lentament al recinte que jo mateix he anat configurant i seure i esperar fins que algú em cridi des d’un ponent contradictori.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Després de tot)
Elogi de l’enyor Posem que el fil de plata d’un afany et porti al cor del temps —si el temps té cor. Què faràs aleshores? Assajar tal volta de descriure l’inefable, o quedar embadocat davant d’aquell joc de miralls que ningú no s’explica? Quin ganivet de doble tall, el risc, que ningú no sap bé per on s’empunya! Més val que et facis ombra amb la teva ombra mentre desxifres el perfil de cada solc de la pell, l’enigma sorprenent, de tan familiar, de les arrugues i, a poc a poc, construeixes un lúdic retrat de tu mateix que t’acompanyi.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Després de tot)
Tinc ancorades a no sé quin port les barques del retorn, i m’avindria potser a desarborar-ne tots els pals a canvi de no res, perquè ara ja no em sedueix intensament cap ruta i em fa falta ben poc per sobreviure.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Després de tot)
Paròdia Era plaent el viatge, i alegre; però de sobte varen bufar vents no gaire favorables i el vaixell, segurament poc ben patronejat, va anar durant un temps a la deriva i al capdavall, vençut, es va enfonsar. Amb restes del naufragi, tanmateix, m’he fet un baluard i ara em defenso tan bé com puc i sé dels vents terrals que tampoc solen ser gaire propicis. D’aquest joc de renúncies i fracassos jo i molts altres com jo en diem viure. Pel que he vist i llegit, últimament passen força sovint aquestes coses.
Miquel Martí i Pol (Després de tot)
A la vida hi ha poc espai per als xiuxiueigs.
Albert Espinosa (Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tú y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo)
...the locale did not make him think of her, nor did most things. He felt no negativity about the time they had spent together, but simply did not dwell on it much. She had been a seat filler, memorable as the smiling face of a beautiful girl in the window of a passing train, inspiring a fleeting moment of joy and promise, immediately forgotten with the opening of that day’s newspaper.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
Life was a swirl of mysteries, each one waiting to be plucked up and explored, but not necessarily solved. As the weight of responsibility bore down on a person, it could feel like a long list of chores leading up to the final one - figuring out how to die with dignity. But Quincy’s interpretation of his surroundings seemed a truer representation of life’s meaning, or rather, the lack of meaning other than to dazzle and delight and befuddle from cradle to grave.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
Was happiness (which was perhaps achieved not by getting what you wanted, but rather, by obtaining what you didn’t know you wished for until it was in hand) a hologram that would continually change appearance with the slightest shift of perspective? Or maybe happiness by definition was a temporary state of being recognizable only in hindsight. It was impossible to catch what always managed to be overrun and end up in the rear view mirror.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and reflect on what might have been. He would look upon the woman who occupied the opposite half of his bed and feel his life had not quite lived up to the promise of another day. These moments would be mercifully brief, or so he hoped.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
Roy L. Pickering Jr. (Matters of Convenience)
I knew this floor plan. I’d never been here before, but I knew every room. “Daniel,” I said and looked to him with tears in my eyes. “Is this our house?” He stuffed his hands into his pockets, pressed his lips together, and nodded, pleased.
Sajni Patel (First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2))
To him [Papa], the written word could act as an invitation to free thought and the broader world, and nowhere was that more true than in the dawn of the printed word, where — for the first time — that invitation could be made to the masses instead of a select few. (4)
The Personal Historian
The etchings are remarkable. As the Pierpont Morgan Library will be if I am placed in the position of librarian. (25)
The Personal Historian
If you think about how many magical Negro, Native American, or wise Asian mentor tropes you’ve watched in movies over the years, it’s easy to understand why so many white folks have been brainwashed into believing that POC exist to support their growth and evolution. The utter failure to comprehend that gaining respect and validation from white folks is not a ubiquitous goal for folks of color is exhausting.
Dalia Kinsey (Decolonizing Wellness)
If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.
Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit and Other Plays)
My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men.
Vivek Shraya (I'm Afraid of Men.)
You people are living in a bell jar if you think differently. So, you can keep convening your panels and trotting out your woke women POC candidates and all the diversity hires of the corporate carbon establishment, and you can tell yourselves that everything’s going to be A-OK, but I can assure you, it is not. And I pray there’s somebody watching this video in about twenty years because all four of you are going to look very, very fucking stupid.
Stephen Markley (The Deluge)
Be yourself. Be over the top. Outlast them. Show them that no amount of fear will ever make you chance who you are.
Mark Oshiro (The Insiders)
El poder redemptor de l'amor. Et truco des de la intempèrie, vaig dir al meu amic pintor. Ell i jo n'ha víem parlat, d'aquesta intempèrie, quan per a mi era un concepte abstracte i per a ell ja no. El dia de la trucada em va donar un consell: Treu tant amor com puguis del dolor. Sembla poc però ja veuràs que és molt, que ho és tot, que no hi ha res més.
Eva Piquer (Aterratge)
In the context of metrics, charlatans always win, because they don't get distracted by trying for actual results.
Manul Laphroaig (PoC or GTFO, Volume 2)
The very best research has no CVE, demands no patch, and has no direct relation to anything from your grandmother’s credit card number to your server’s shadow file. The very best research is that which teaches you something new about the mechanism by which a machine functions. It teaches you how to build something, how to break something, or how to take something apart, but most of all it teaches you how the hell that thing really works. So to hell with the target and to hell with the reporters.
Manul Laphroaig (PoC or GTFO, Volume 2)
We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black people, and the colonization of Mexicans?
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
...my racial identity is a concept that escapes intellectual conversations about race. My personal experiences contradict the idea that Latino is only an ethnicity and not a race. But suggesting that Latino should be a race confounds the situation even more, because we are all so different and experience the world differently, though the same could be said of any other racial group. When others state, 'Latino is not a race, it's an ethnicity,' they ignore that not all Latinos have the same ethnicity, either. And though we don't all share the same ethnicity, the exact language, religion, customs, culture, food, and so forth, and though we are not the only ethnic group in America, we are the only people who are singled out by our ethnicity.
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves.
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
The acronyms BIPOC or POC can be helpful linguistically in conveying the idea that we are referring to people who do not hold white privilege, but what we gain in terms of ease of communicating we lose in terms of conveying the nuanced experiences that these different racial groups have when it comes to their experiences with white supremacy. When we say BIPOC or POC, we are essentially clumping people from all kinds of different cultures and racial experiences into one clumsily assembled group. This flattens their experiences and gives the impression that they all experience white supremacy in the same way, which they do not.
Layla F. Saad (Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor)
Instead of tracking meaningful indicators of deal advancement and tangible sales process results, they only kept track of activity KPIs such as: Number of calls Number of emails sent Number of video introductions Number of POCs
John McMahon (The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CRO)
Res és suficient per al qui suficient és poc
Epicur (Ética)
...lies...drive immigrants, and people of color...to change who we are in order to make us palatable, or at least tolerable, to white America. I didn't find freedom in assimilation because there is no freedom in racist ideas. Assimilation requires that the story we tell about the United States and about white people is an uplifting, inspiring, sugarcoated version of the facts, in which the whip, guns, and racist motives must remain hidden. But it was the truth about this country, the knowledge of its ugly dirty secrets, that set me free.
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
White supremacy is persistent, but so are we.
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
The legacy of unions that kept African Americans, Latinos, Chinese, and others out of factory work—redlining, exclusionary immigration policies, the looting of Mexicans' land during the Mexican-American War, deportations of Mexicans during economic downturns—all created a gap that we are still trying to close. In a country where Black Americans have been viewed as 'biologically inferior,' Mexicans as 'an ignorant "hybrid race,"' and Chinese immigrants as the 'ideal human mule,' there is far from a fair chance to access the same economic opportunities as white people.
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
We are finally seeing that success doesn't have to happen outside our community or in spite of our heritage. We are rejecting the notion that success is found in whiteness because that kind of thinking has never led us anywhere good. The antidote for the poison of the oppressor is to embrace our brownness, because it is our culture that is propelling us.
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)
No creguis que em contradic: hem fet passar fam als altres i hem tingut els diners de tothom ben estrets dins el nostre puny. Sabem molt, llavors. I per saber molt has de saber poc i amb una convicció pètria, baldament per defora semblis una coca bamba, no ho oblidis: pots perdre l’esposa, déu , el llegir i escriure, però si la teva butxaca rebenta de bitllets tronaran les dones, els capellans, i no necessitaràs llegir ni escriure per fer-te respectar. Aquests que critiquen el turisme són imbècils: si no venem l’illa, ¿d’on traurem els diners?
Baltasar Porcel (Olympia A Medianoche (Spanish Edition))
While we appreciate the solidarity shown by White and Non-Black POC, we want to remind folks of some things: Please refrain from taking up space in all ways possible. Remember that you are there in support of Black folks, so should never be at the centre of anything Refrain from speaking to the media. Black voices are crucial to this Stand behind Black folks or between us and the police If you see a cop harassing a Black person, come in and engage (chances are they are least likely to arrest you). The call was widely criticized by media internationally, in a raw reminder that the dominant society is more interested in how we mourn and the spectacle of our mourning than in what we mourn and the conditions of our lives.
Rodney Diverlus (Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada)
I feel ashamed that black people are both the agents and the victims of this chaos, and I don't want to be thought of like that. But I'm also ashamed of myself for thinking I'm somehow better. The shame I feel in my guts, pulsing, spiraling; but also everything feels very far away. I'm black, but my black is different from that of those rioters on TV.
Christina Hammonds Reed (The Black Kids)
Les feministes negres sempre han subratllat que la lluita no pot dirigir-se únicament contra el patriarcat, com diuen les feministes blanques. Tampoc poc centrar-se únicament en la lluita de classes, com diuen les socialistes. No pot abordar tan sols el racisme i l'imperialisme, com diuen les negres radicals. I tampoc pot combatre només l'ecocidi, com diuen les activistes ecologistes.
Minna Salami (Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone)
while white women are an oppressed group, they still wield more power than any other group of women—including the power to oppress both men and women of color.
Mikki Kendall (Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot)
Parents from POC groups who had heard feedback about their own identity throughout their lives were more likely to talk to their children about race and ethnicity.
Farzana Nayani (Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World)
Pocs remarks on the prevalence of Witches with fairy characteristics in the trial records throughout central and Southeastern Europe.43 It seems she believes the “white sabbat” to have been the original before the “black sabbat” was invented by the inquisitor and demonologist. But by white she really means ambivalent, because despite the bells and music, faeries everywhere are associated with elf darts and blasts of disease as much as they are with helping with the spinning.
Lee Morgan (Sounds of Infinity)
These faerie motifs of abduction, initiatory death and repatriation into the community with altered status, and the insertion or removal of body parts and blood are all clues to better understanding how Witchcraft flows forth from the Faerie Faith. Eva Pocs points out the following similarities. Just like faeries: “The witch, for instance, flies in the form of a crow or a whirl-wind, sits in a swallows nest, where she seems to sometimes be little, sometimes big, and sometimes disappears, she walks on the top of trees as quickly as the wind; or the whole witch company ‘transforms into crows and alights on willows’. They travel in green coaches on the top of the trees...
Lee Morgan (Sounds of Infinity)
Perquè, encara que a tu et costi de creure, l'amor, l'amor sencer, aquest amor que, segons tu, només pot existir entre home i dona, existeix també sovint entre dos homes que l'atzar d'una aventura ha unit. Saps com és de fàcil superar entre home i dona la naturalesa d'aquest atzar, quan és d'un caràcter que ens fa poc honor; saps com l'amor pot créixer a partir de la carn i dels seus capricis i turpituds, i sublimar-se, sense que, per altra part, la carn perdi els seus drets, els quals encara es fan més exigents, i aquesta exigència més satisfactòria, per haver brollat d'un sentiment capaç de transcendir-la, però sense necessitat de fer-ho, perquè la carn no destorba, la carn és aquesta part de nosaltres mateixos mitjançant la qual podem expressar tot allò que d'altra manera és inexpressable i es quedaria sempre per dir... Aquest amor, et repeteixo, pot existir també entre dos homes.
Manuel de Pedrolo (Un amor fora ciutat)
Sí, Maria Rosa, no és amor allò que sento per en Miquel, ni me n'ha inspirat mai. Entre ell i jo no hi ha, no hi ha hagut en cap moment, res més que una fascinació de la carn, l'ànsia insensata i que fins aleshores no havia sentit, de perdre'm en una mena de somni que a poc a poc s'anà convertint en un desig punyent d'oblidar-me de mi mateix i de la sordidesa de la meva vida sencera. Potser ho vaig pressentir aquell primer dia que ens coneguérem, en sentir-me tan absurdament empresonat pel desig vell, i per això vaig acudir al seu pis, amb l'afany d'anihilar-me definitivament. Però no existeixen aquesta mena de paradisos, i la droga de la carn no és prou poderosa per a no inspirar, de tant en tant, una mica de repugnància.
Manuel de Pedrolo (Un amor fora ciutat)
We now turn our attention to that element—the misuse of trust. hy·poc·ri·sy / act of playing a part: feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion. Another characteristic of false spiritual leaders is that they attempt to affect virtues or qualities they do not have. And they have a different set of rules for themselves than everyone else. They are hypocrites.
David R. Johnson (The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church)
Given that we can see the Basque province as almost an exemplar of the features of faerie lore it is intriguing to note that the sorginak, Basque Witches, are of the “night witch” variety rather than the village-witch type posited by Eva Pocs. That is, there is little distinction given between the mythical attendants of Lady Mari who fly through the sky and are often blurred with the laminak, and human Witches. Exactly the same word is used in the Basque province for these disincarnate faerie-like night-witches as for the human Witch. It seems this is a very old way of viewing Witches, and that faeries are intimately bound up with them.
Lee Morgan (Sounds of Infinity)
As Eva Pocs puts it: “The masked figures of the Calusari [can be placed] among the wolf, horse etc, masked representatives of the dead returning home at the time of the winter solstice. On the other hand, the oppositions of the dead and the fertility bringing goddesses is not exclusive: fairies are in one of the aspects themselves the returning dead; while the winter demons and especiall St Theodore's horses also have a fertility-bringing role.”7
Lee Morgan (Sounds of Infinity)
Although connected closely with faeries Eva Pocs describes the dragon or serpent as an older more archaic part of the spirit world. This fits well with both Romani Gypsy lore which positions the “serpent people” as residing in the lower parts of the Underworld and being among some of the oldest of the spirits.
Lee Morgan (Sounds of Infinity)
Però la Mei ha tardat poc a constatar que res no és mai com en el passat, que els punts de partida són sempre diferents, que no hi ha marxa enrere encara que de vegades ens ho sembli, sinó camins nous que s’han de transitar i aprendre una altra vegada.
M. Mercè Cuartiella (L'afer marsellès)
La lógica del amor no es la de saberse apreciado, sino que se lo deje correr por las paredes y el patio, como un perro que recibe a su dueño
Luis María Pescetti (Historias de los señores Moc y Poc)
The purpose of the Adizes Method is to achieve the process of management described in this book. People participate on subjects which either affect them or to which they have something to contribute. Via synerteams and the POCs, they can change whatever can and needs to be changed. And the structured, disciplined decision-making process of the Adizes Method enables people to feel responsible for the decisions that are made cooperatively.
Ichak Kalderon Adizes (How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis)
Proof of concept or POC is the art of winning a ship-building contract by showing the working model of a paper boat
Nipun Varma (Adventures of an Indian Techie)
As Michael Bauman of Hillsdale College frankly comments: We hide the fetal holocaust that surrounds us every day just as effectively as the Nazis hid their extermination of the Jews. And we do it the same way. We cannot bring ourselves to utter the “M” word, though we commit the “M” act. That is, we do not murder unborn children, we “abort fetuses”…. Some of the more squeamish among us are unable even to say the “A” word. Though by aborting fetuses rather than murdering babies our linguistic sleight of hand has hidden the real nature of our action (murder) and the real identity of our victim (baby), some people require a still heavier dose of verbal opium. We must tell them they are merely “terminating a pregnancy,” which eliminates overt reference to any living thing…. If “terminating pregnancies” is still too overt a verbal description because the word pregnant tends to evoke unfortunate images of happy women large with child, we can hide the crime behind an even more impersonal wall of words. We can say that the murdering of unborn children is nothing more than the voluntary extraction of the “product of conception,” or, as nearly all abortion clinics have it, “removing the POC.” What could be more innocent.20
Jesse Lee Peterson (From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson)
Però van passant les setmanes, els mesos i els anys. I molt a poc a poc, potser una pinzellada cada dia, el temps va envernissant el record. Sense que te n’adonis, la capa de vernís es va fent més gruixuda, fins que alguna vegada, per la raó que sigui, vols fer memòria d’aquell dia. I, amb estupor, t’adones que ja no pots reconstruir els fets amb precisió.
Sílvia Soler Guasch (Els vells amics)
Un dels mèrits poc reconeguts de l'amor és que ens esperona les ganes d'aprendre.
Albert Sánchez Piñol (Victus)
—Ara seré jo la teva família —em diu. —T'estimo —li dic jo. Ja l'hi havia dit un cop, abans d'anar al quarter general d'Erudició, però en aquella ocasió estava adormit. No sé per què no l'hi vaig dir quan em podia sentir. Potser vaig tenir por de confiar-li alguna cosa tan personal com la meva devoció. O potser em feia por perquè no sabia què era estimar algú. Però ara crec que el pitjor de tot és que em vaig esperar massa a dir-l'hi i de poc que perdo l'oportunitat de poder-ho fer. Ho hauria hagut de dir molt abans que fos massa tard per a mi. Sóc seva i ell és meu i sempre ha estat així.
Veronica Roth (Insurgent (Divergent, #2))
Runa- Joan Vinyoli "Mira: jo sóc una paret. Els pares van alçar-la maó sobre maó fins a la mida que veus, una paret de casa humil. Fixa't com es clivella, com va esfondrant-se a poc a poc amb sord, feixuc estrèpit. Però ja a terra tot, amb mans obreres de paraula, nit rera nit, pacientment plego la runa i novament edifico
Vinyoli Joan
És curiós pensar en la quantitat de coses que fem sense saber per què les fem. Un amic meu, l'Eder, va escriure un relat breu que parlava dels «tres segons que aguantem mirant el sol». És cert, encara que ningú no t'ha dit que no es pot mirar més de tres segons el sol, tu saps que és veritat i no hi fas. És curiós, el sol sempre és allà dalt, ens observa, ens escalfa i, per contra, que poc que li aguantem la mirada. Sense cap mena de dubte, és el gran groc. El sentim, el notem, sabem que és allà però no l'hem de mirar gaire.
Albert Espinosa (The Yellow World)
Crec que en l'amistat es valora massa la paraula, però es valora poc pel que fa a sentir-se, a la distància física que separa dos amics.
Albert Espinosa (The Yellow World)
A la fi és gràcies a totes aquestes persones i moviments que sé que no estic sola, que encara que en números absoluts siguem pocs, a cada racó del país hi ha joves que creuen en la pagesia, que lluiten i treballen fermament per tirar endavant una feina, un ofici i una manera de viure a pesar de totes les traves, dificultats i invisibilitzacions, i que al darrere i al voltant de tots plegats hi ha una xarxa de persones que sigui des de dins del sector o des d’altres àmbits diferents, fent més o menys soroll, no han deixat de batallar per obrir camps i camins que han mantingut ben llaurats i fresats perquè pugui ser així. La unió fa la força i la diversitat, la resistència. (...) ...Quedar-me al tros perquè és a través de la terra, de treballar-la i treballar-hi, que he trobat la manera de defensar-la, defugint relats imposats i falsejats amb promeses de solucions màgiques i futurs brillants que mai arribaran i que contra el que prediquen el que acaben fent és ignorar-la, atacar-la i sentenciar-la, i perquè crec que és en la pagesia, heretada i en construcció alhora, on hi pot haver la llavor per revertir la decadència que comporta haver oblidat i donat l’esquena a la natura i als llocs que ens alimenten, aixopluguen i expliquen. De moment soc aquí i ho celebro.
Júlia Viejobueno Cavallé (Quedar-se al tros)
i, sobretot, controla la teva rebel·lia, pot resultar incòmoda per a qui no comparteixi el teu sentit de l'humor canviant i poc fer a la simpatia.
David Castillo (Downtown)
Acabem de tenir un fill. Les nostres vides no tornaran a ser, mai més, a ser com abans. Aquesta certesa giravolta dins meu amb la fúria d'un huracà que fa ben poc ni tan sols s'intuïa en l'horitzó
Jordi Nopca (El futur és una petita flama)
La necessitat que l'internacionalisme no siga marginal i escapista justifica l'afirmació que, a Catalunya, l'internacionalisme efectiu o solidari comença per l'actitud que es pren davant del País Valencià. No crec massa exagerat afirmar que el 99.9% dels catalans (inclosos els que tenen consciència nacional) coneixen molt poc la societat valenciana (i, sovint, gens). Davant d'aquesta situació, convé dir que qui és ignorant d'una societat no hi pot ser solidari.
Abelard Saragossà (Mozaik multilingue minim: eskrit segons el Projekte d'Ortografia Fonetica Unika Europea (POFUE))
És fàcil comprovar que la vida és l'efecte acumulat d'uns quants successos importants. Per regla general, estos successos són casuals. En canvi, quan projectem tendim a no creure-ho. No som capaços d'advertir el fet que el futur, amb tota seguretat, tornarà a ser el sumatori de nous successos; pocs, aïllats, decisius, i generalment imprevisibles. Això que anomenem vulgarment sort és la manifestació en les nostres xicotetes vides individuals de l'aleatorietat del món. Vivim dins d'un remolí aleatori. No és que no hi haja patrons, regularitats, causes i efectes. És que és massa complex tot i necessitem enfocaments molt curts. La realitat, a partir de certs nivells de complexitat, no pot ser tancada de cap manera dins del nostre cervell. I, per tant, no la comprenem.
Guillermo Colomer Lloret (Aura en Manhattan)
Vull viure en un món on el pitjor imaginable sigui una manifestació a prop d’un hospital. Vull la capacitat narcotitzant de no veure cossos destrossats, cirurgians morts d’un tret al quiròfan, un presoner emmanillat a qui ordenen que entri en un hospital per demanar a tothom que se’n vagi i després, quan surt, l’executen, perquè jo també pugui calibrar les meves condemnes adequadament. Seria magnífic viure en un món així. En realitat, és poc important el que jo condemni i la vehemència amb què ho faci. En l’ordre de castes del món occidental pertanyo a una ètnia, una religió i un lloc per als quals no hi ha cap límit a l’hora de condemnar-nos. Vet aquí el que hem de fer sempre, exculpent tota la resta: condemnar, disculpar-nos, refugiar-nos en el silenci davant de qualsevol atrocitat comesa per algú que no sigui aquell a qui se’ns suposa eternament lleials. No n’hi ha prou amb dir que menyspreo Hamàs per les mateixes raons per les quals menyspreo gairebé totes les entitats governants de l’Orient Mitjà, entitats obsessionades per la violència com a escala de valors, brutals en el tracte dels grups minoritaris que, segons la seva opinió, no haurien d’existir, i que es proclamen els autèntics defensors de tota una religió.
Omar El Akkad (One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This)
No crec que es pugui dir que la política lingüística fins ara aplicada a Catalunya hagi fet fallida i molt menys que hagi estat errònia en les seves línies mestres. Ara: certes expectatives sobre l'evolució de la nostra societat s'han revelat infonamentades o, si més no, descansaven sobre bases poc consistents per fer avançar amb decisió el procés de normalització lingüística. Per tant, cal una dinamització de la política lingüística i un canvi de direcció en alguns capítols, tal com insistentment reclamen els més diversos especialistes. I si aquestes paraules dedicades a la situació de Catalunya són preocupants ¿com seran les destinades a les altres zones dels Països Catalans? [...] ¿tan difícil és aconseguir que almenys els màxims responsables de les tres Comunitats Autònomes de llengua catalana s'esforcin a establir una coordinació regular?
Francesc Vallverdú (L'ús del català, un futur controvertit. Qüestions de normalització lingüística al llindar del segle XXI)
She had in recent years begun to assign only minimalist autofiction by queer POC authors to her undergraduates, and she had to admit it was a better classroom experience for all.
Danzy Senna (Colored Television)
Però totes les ànimes pesen igual? Què fa que una pesi més que una altra? La intel·ligència, els pecats l'ego? Jo tinc la sensació que la meva pesa ben poc. No perquè em menystingui, no, però em sembla que tinc una ànima senzilla, planera, i això em fa l'efecte que deu pesar menys que una ànima tortuosa, o que la d'un geni. Quant devia pesar l'ànima de Picasso, de Leonardo, de Beethoven?
Carlota Gurt i Daví (Cavalcarem tota la nit)
dentro de las que destacan la falta de confianza en el establecimiento, la preocupación por los tiempos de entrega, la incertidumbre por los precios finales de los servicios y la baja calidad en los procesos de mantenimiento y reparación.
Juan Camilo Chavarro (Transformando la gestión de talleres: El poder del método POC (Spanish Edition))
«Són temps durs, avui ningú parla de melodia ni d’emoció. Els que fem la cançó poètica d’autor de l’antiga escola melòdica, per viure i sobreviure —exposats com estem de cara a tothom, vulnerables a l’elogi i a la indiferència—, per salvar-nos hem de trobar l’enfocament nítid i poètic de la nostra veu. Si ho aconsegueixes, la veu es desprèn de la gravetat i flota per sobre les cordes vocals i la laringe. És quan t’hi reconeixes i et fa feliç cantar. L’esperit dirigeix el seu allà on vol. Es neix creador. Gravar gairebé sempre m’ha deixat un regust de frustració. Els meus discos, uns més que altres, no són com els havia imaginat, com els escoltava a dins del cap. Quan sortia de l’estudi, ho feia amb la dolorosa sensació que, el que havia fet, estava inacabat, que no havia arribat al final. La causa principal estava clara: el poc temps i els diners de què disposava. El temps, allà dins d’aquells espais automatitzats, s’ha de pagar, cada minut, cada segon, a un preu excessiu per l’època que vivim. Inconscientment, corria fet un mar de nervis; no em parava a escoltar ni a reflexionar el que acabava de gravar; no hi havia temps de corregir, pensava que encara hi havia moltes cançons a fer. Es gravava amb presses i es mesclava amb presses. «Les bones vibracions les has de crear tu», va dir algú. Però, com les pots crear quan el ressò del dring és més fort que la música? Per a la creació completa i sense fissures és necessari apartar-se del temps. En Ramon Godes, que ha fet grans discos amb Coyotes, Malevaje i en solitari, em deia que gravar havia acabat sent una tortura i que no tenia ganes de continuar fent discos. Per a mi també ho era, però jo sí que volia seguir enregistrant i publicant els meus àlbums. També m’incomodava el mètode de gravació. Fins i tot al principi, quan no tenia cap experiència, em semblava que la meva música s’havia de gravar en directe amb tots els músics tocant, junts, donant-hi temps, permetent que es desenvolupés i s’impregnés del sentiment que cadascú aporta, fins que surt la bona interpretació. La música, les cançons, per a mi són una forma de vida i de vegades, o potser sempre, una declaració de principis. La perfecció no entra en els meus objectius. El meu vocabulari té més a veure amb la màgia, l’aura de cada cançó, entregant-m’hi en cos i ànima. Així serà com la música vibrarà i farà vibrar. D’aquesta manera es va gravar el primer single de Primavera Negra. Vaig tenir la fortuna de caure en mans d’un productor que ho veia com jo. Va ser una gravació meravellosa, ràpida, plena de sensacions i sentiments que brollaven sense parar, emocionant-me i inspirant-me mentre tocava i cantava, que van quedar enregistrats en aquella cinta de dues polsades i en el vinil que, per molt que passin els anys, encara ho transmet com el primer dia. Molts dels discos que m’agraden són els que no estan fets amb productes elaborats, calculats i dissenyats en la cadena de producció en sèrie, allò que jo en dic la «mentalitat de producció». Amb La cançó de l’Udol havia començat a posar en pràctica el que m’havia dit tantes vegades, 'per què, si penses bé, no actuïs bé?'».
Xavier Baró Simó (S’invoca joglaria)
Tal com va aparèixer, el disc se n'ha anat. Per moltíssima gent va su- posar l'accés a una expansió del pensament extraordinària, de sentir com mai havia sentit, poder tenir l'orquestra a casa desgranant cada nota, penetrant-hi com es penetraria dins d'un món meravellós guardat durant segles en un cofre i, allà a dins, veure la llibertat més a prop del que s'havia vist mai, tenint-la al davant, quasi a tocar. Tot això sorgia d'un disc de vinil amb els solcs farcits de música i enfundat en cobertes de cartró bellament dissenyades, plenes d'in- formació. Era agradable tenir-los a les mans, aquells discos. Eren portadors d'universos de creativitat que et despertaven, s'encoma- naven, t'acompanyaven i transmetien somnis. Això, ara, ja no hi és. La meva obra està feta artesanalment, utilitzant els pocs elements que he tingut a mà, suficients per expressar el meu univers musical i poètic i acolorir el so primitiu de la meva cançó, des de la línia di- visòria entre l'amateurisme i el professionalisme; un peu en la cul- tura tradicional i l'altre vagant lliurement per l'univers dels sons i l'aventura amb el sentiment infantil de la terra de les meravelles, sense balises ni senyals que em marquessin el camí. Visionària, vola pels espais oberts dient al pensament que hi ha un nou pensament fora del pensament regulat per l'ordre que vol manar. Sempre he volgut i m'ha agradat ser a prop dels orígens, de les fonts musicals, m'hi trobo bé, allí. És on jo puc fer la meva cançó afegint-hi la contemporaneïtat i les meves idees, sentint que, de tot això, n'ha sorgit quelcom diferent, salvatge i nou, de manera natural. I, com ritme! No he vist mai que ningú ballés escoltant-me, però m'hauria agradat. Qui diu que no es pot ballar «La caiguda de Lleida», «Miro amb els meus ulls» o «Posa un bes als meus llavis»? Tothom que porti el ritme ancestral a dins, pot. La meva voluntat ha estat trobar la senzillesa i fer-me entendre. He conegut cançons molt antigues, he conegut cants d'altres cultures i m'adono que no estan lluny de la cançó d'autor moderna. Les d'ahir i les d'ara porten la mateixa llavor. No ha entrat mai a la cambra on es guarda la primera i la darrera cançó? Doncs fes-ho, l'entrada és lliure. No he fugit dels textos que parlen de la quotidianitat, de la paraula que no va més enllà de si mateixa. He preferit verbalitzar somnis, pen- saments, diàlegs interiors i d'altres, visions, cròniques històriques, amb una mica d'experimentació i poesia, sempre amb el far de la melodia i la claredat de la cançó final com a guia. Malgrat el que opinen alguns, no sóc un artista local creador d'una obra hermètica tancada en un punt perdut de la geografia catalana; ni tampoc un maleït. El que alguns han considerat una obra aïllada no ho és en absolut. La meva ha estat feta dins d'un universalisme sense murs ni compartiments estancs, que asbergeix la troba per tal que, si pot ser, sigui fecundada per algú altre quan la rebi. La meva obra és tot el contrari de l'individualisme desordenat, passiu i sense doctrina, de llavor estèril, que es mostra indiferent vers la cultura popular. En la concepció activa del meu llenguatge musical i poètic he buscat crear una cançó que recordés l'eternitat, la cançó primi- tiva popular que, de vegades, he anat a buscar i, d'altres, m'ha estat revelada perquè somrigui molt més a la nostra ment i el nostre cor que no pas l'aspiració a formar part d'un món d'esclaus electrònics sorgits de la peresa i la deixadesa, cansats de pensar i sentir. La bellesa ha estat un fi. La bellesa duu al coneixement; t'hi con- dueix a cavall de les experiències, la disciplina i la pròpia entrega; irradia llum per, en la fosca, inspirar bons sentiments, ànims per avançar i no caure en l'apatia; fer companyia i trencar l'ensopiment i la resignació. Si alguna cosa no és, la meva obra, és resignada.
Xavier Baró Simó (S’invoca joglaria)
Mira: jo sóc una paret. Els pares van alçar-la maó sobre maó fins a la mida que veus, una paret de casa humil. Fixa't com es clivella, com va esfondrant-se a poc a poc amb sord, feixuc estrèpit. Però ja a terra tot, amb mans obreres de paraula, nit rera nit, pacientment plego la runa i novament edifico.
Joan Vinyoli i Pladevall
Perquè ara, convençuts com estam de la inutilitat de lluitar per les causes perdudes, hem assimilat, per a la pròpia vida, les mateixes màximes que posen en pràctica els polítics que ens mereixem: exigim el dret a la nostra porció de benestar, respectant i fent respectar jerarquies imposades, assumint que l'únic que importa és la nostra qualitat de vida, que fa temps sabem que és sinònim de nivell de vida. Ens reconeixem tan sols en els valors de mercat i no volem saber res de les misèries morals on aquests arrelen. Caminam satisfets de poder manar un poc i de ser dòcils al govern dels altres, mancats del coratge necessari perquè les causes perdudes deixin de ser-ho.
Xisca Homar (Filosofia salvatge)
Fawning has been necessary for People of Color (POC) to survive in a society where white people have long been the gatekeepers determining whether and where POC can acquire property, attend schools, get jobs, be paid, get promoted, or merely exist. “The most common manifestation of the fawn response among POC is probably the internalization of the model minority narrative, which appears to be universally pervasive among all POC communities.
Meg Josephson (Are You Mad at Me?)