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Leituras de Junho 📚 foi um bom mês, bem variado e intenso.

📕 Hipocritões e Olhigarcas Passado e futuro das guerras culturais, Rui Tavares / 5⭐
📖 Swimming In The Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski / 4.5⭐
📕 O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças, Afonso Cruz / 4.7⭐
📖 Giovanni'S Room, James Baldwin / 5⭐
📕 Filha da Louca, Maria Francisca Gama / 4.5⭐
📖 As Primas, Aurora Venturini / 5⭐

"Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any Black man, any poor person -- ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." ― #JamesBaldwin #BlackHistory

"If Americans were not so terrified of their private selves they would never have needed to invent and could never have become so dependent on what they still call the Negro problem. This problem which they invented in order to safeguard their purity has made of them criminals and monsters and it is destroying them; and this not from anything Blacks may or may not be doing but because of the role a guilty and constricted white imagination has assigned to the Blacks." #JamesBaldwin #BlackHistory

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
Look at me now

This morning's #Workout #Music is from Meshell Ndegeocello doing songs from her latest (and greatest) album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin. Resistance training while resistance training. RIYL Matana Roberts, Moor Mother, or, well, good music.

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