I wouldn’t be mad about it. #uberfacts
"When you love someone, it doesn’t really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances."
— Lisa Unger (via quotemadness)
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High school student and published author Alexandra Egi joins us with a guest post discussing the reality of the pressure youth are facing today.
“I read David Denby’s stuffy New Yorker lament Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore? on my phone yesterday, glued to a screen just like the typical American teenagers he throws shade at in his opening paragraph. “Looking at them, you can envy their happiness,” Denby writes. “You can also find yourself wishing them immersed in a different kind of happiness – in a superb book or a series of books, in the reading obsession itself! You should probably keep on wishing.” What follows is a wordy, predictable groaner: the kids these days, Denby writes, are unable to connect to each other outside digital technologies and uninterested in reading the classics. Oh, teens do read, he acknowledges, with a half-hearted nod to science fiction and fantasy favorites, graphic novels, and young adult literature. But they don’t read in a serious way – they ignore Shakespeare, Twain and Salinger. Denby lists a half-dozen other omissions too, only two of them women, it might be observed, and none of them people of color.”
(via Teen readers aren’t in crisis, they’re just making their own rules | Books | The Guardian)
All hail @elizabethminkel!
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The CCBC has released this year’s stats on Children’s Books by and About People of Color. Go take a look!
"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
— Arundhati Roy (via quotemadness)
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"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human."
— Albert Ellis (via quotemadness)
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