Ayşe E.

My motto, as I live and learn, is: dig and be dug in return. —Langston Hughes
People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
bluepueblo: Natural Pool, Santorini, Greece photo via mary brb, moving here. - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
If [Hillary] Clinton wants to tell a better American story and have people to come to a consensus about who we are, she has to tell the story straight and then explain how we can best try to live up to our higher ideals in the future. Constantly telling ourselves a bunch of fairy tales about how great we are has painted us into a corner in which... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
Seriously, they're wonderful people. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Which other country is in receipt of $3bn a year in US aid, despite maintaining a 47-year military occupation in violation of international law? Which other country has been allowed to develop and stockpile nuclear weapons in secret? - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
Deadline times call for deadline measures. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
snowce: Odilon Redon, Sunset - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
nevver: Everything, painted blue - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
OMGWHYAMIHAVING28ICEDCOFFEEEEEEEEEEEZBEFOREYOGAWHEEEEEEEEEEEEE *Muppet flails around the yard* #woowoowoo
#mustread RT @rtraister Esquire, HobbyLobby, SCOTUS, clinic protesters, mother-judgers: We don't care if you like it. http://www.newrepublic.com/article...
The reason women are turning you down for casual sex seems to be that, for one thing, a lot of you are calling them sluts afterward. Also, a lot of you aren’t bothering to try to be good in bed. - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
I think vets are angels on earth - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
One last chance to find those pesky gremlins - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
explore-blog: More timeless truth from Anaïs Nin - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
theparisreview: Dorothy Parker, The Art of Fiction No. 13 - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
Google has had some stunning logos over the years, but this one is a showstopper - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
nevver: Reality and imagination, Leslie Jean-Bart - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
theparisreview: On Virginia Woolf’s conception of privacy: “Many people accept the idea that each of us has a certain resolute innerness … What interested Woolf was the way that we become aware of that innerness. We come to know it best, she thought, when we’re forced, at moments of exposure, to shield it against the outside world.” For more of... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
Like many others who turned into writers, I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods. What surprised and still surprises me is that there was another side to the forest of stories and the solitude, that I came out that other side and met people there. Writers are solitaries by vocation... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
belgianpaintings: Alfred STEVENS (1823-1906) - Marine,1895 - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...