Jee Hei Park

The thing about opinions is that they're pretty useless. They serve no purpose other than to express how you perceive the world which is, by and large, riddled with inexperience. Having a lack of personal experience with something is not a bad thing! Assuming that your opinions should be treated equal to or greater than the lived experiences of others is.

When your fear of awkward silences overpowers your dislike of small talk. SIDEWALKS, EH? ~sweats profusely~

— Nanea Hoffman sweatpantsandcoffee

"For me that’s looked sitting in a church with community members, hashing out a situation that occurred with a group of young men in the community, who had been responsible for mugging, terrorizing really in some ways, an older white man in the neighborhood—a man who was now incredibly fearful as a result of what had happened to him. Figuring out: why would you do that? What led to this? What might we imagine other than turning to the cops in this instance? How do we resolve both the fear that you’ve now introduced in this person’s life and the pain and dispossession that you’ve been experiencing in your own? I guess that answer won’t satisfy people who want you to provide them with a solution, with the solution. Who immediately want to know: “how are we going to deal with the rapists and the murderers?” This is the question that always gets thrown at anybody who identifies as abolitionist—and my question back is “what are you doing right now about the rapists and the murderers?” That’s the first thing: Is what’s happening right now working for you? Are you feeling safer? Has the current approach ended rape and murder? The vast majority of rapists never see the inside of a courtroom, let alone get convicted and end up in prison. In fact, they end up becoming President. So the system you feel so attached to and that you seem invested in preserving is not delivering what you say you want, which is presumably safety and an end to violence. Worse than that it is causing inordinate additional harm. The logics of policing and prisons are not actually addressing the systemic causes and roots of violence." . . — Mariame Kaba “Towards the horizon of abolition: A conversation with Mariame Kaba” twitter: prisonculture

— Ramona Corlette @ramonacorlette

Learning to know when some things just aren’t worth your time or energy can be incredibly helpful. Sometimes combating poor behavior is as simple as not giving it the time of day! Your time and energy is far more important than their bullshit. NEXT. 😋

— Dr. Crystal Jones @drcrystaljones

— Amanda Gorman @amandascgorman Called the 'next great figure of poetry in the US', at 19-years-old Amanda Gorman is a published author and the first ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States of America.

"Papperlapapp" translates to "nonsense" in German 😍 It's typically used around children like saying "Baloney" or "Pish-posh!"

— DiDi Delgado @thedididelgado from her article “Your Calls For Unity Are Divisive As F*ck”

Fury is cloaked over my body. Buttoned to my neck. Brushing against my ankles. No. I will not undress. Prepared | Abyssinia Pla El @abyssinia.p

Full proverbs are actually amazing? I also like "Great minds think alike, small minds rarely differ." 😁 Aw dang!

— Patricia Martin @patriciamartinwrites from her article “Why It’s Brave to Go at Your Own Pace”

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Assata Shakur

The word “lämpimämpi” means “warmer” in Finnish and is one of my favourite Finnish words! SÖPÖ! Once you get used to all of the double consonants and vowels it’s a pretty cool language and NOT as difficult to learn as you might think 🤓

— Johanna Hedva | johannahedva.com