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โ๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ.
๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐, ๐๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ'๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ฅโฆโ.
~-๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ด๐ฎ๐ป
Alice Walker, from โEven As I Hold Youโ, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Abuse of power
On a global, social and individual level - and in different contexts in each case - abuse of power refers to behaviour that is based on the illegitimate use of power. The term refers to an accusation that is often used in combination with other terms such as corruption, arbitrariness, greed or thirst for recognition, some of which refer to the possible underlying motives. Various academic disciplines, preferably political and social sciences, but also many others such as economics or sexology, and depending on the context, possibly also criminology or police science, deal with the possibly very different consequences of abuse of power. As a rule, however, there is no definition of the term in either a scientific or other context.
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How this picture came together with the gif can be clearly understood from the previous facts.
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We have no intention of influencing or even insulting anyone here.
That has probably already been done by the actual facts of the people involved. They insult human rights and don't even apologise, even though they pretend to believe.
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โI have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.โ
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My favorite DGM Couple!^^
"Writing is different. Ordinary people don't understand. Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. We have to write. I have to write. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk." - W.P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe (book that inspired Field of Dreams)
Can you tell us about your favorite writers and books, please? Your writing is the light!
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Two sisters, separated before they even have a chance to remember the other. One is sold into slavery, the other becomes a slave-ownerโs wife. Every chapter is written from the perspective of one of their descendants, spanning three generations and hundreds of years, crossing continents, beginning in Africa at the onset of slavery and taking us all the way to modern day America. The true glory of this book is that you only hear from each character once and yet you are no less emotionally invested in them.ย The writing is mesmerising, brutal; full of softness, and of spit. Fire and water - as the book references - fire and water, come together.
The Third Life of Grange Copeland - Alice Walker
Everyone reads The Color Purple (and rightfully so), but in my opinion, this is Walkerโs better book. It follows three generations of a poor black family in the American South. Itโs set after the abolition of slavery, when it was no longer legal, but the effects of it were still felt by black men and the black women they often took their feelings of powerlessness out on. It gives us ugly, brutal, abusive black male characters and without asking us to forgive them, makes us understand the cycle that made them so callous. Brilliant.
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride
Gutting. Like being suffocated within the narratorโs head. Written in an off-the-cuff stream-of-consciousness type style. It follows the life of a young woman who experiences a myriad of traumas. I have never felt such stifling second-hand grief, and for a fictional character at that. Devastating, perverse, and hard to stomach, but one of the most worthwhile reads in recent years.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
A book without a genre. A mix of poetry, prose, and even drama. A semi-autobiographical account of a man left to struggle with his grief after his wife passes, leaving him to raise their two young sons. The most original format Iโve ever seen in a book. Heart-rending, darkly comic, and entirely absurd at times.
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
One of the most poetic novels Iโve ever read. A young girl navigates a series of foster homes while her mother is in prison for having killed her partner. Something about this book feels like leaving candy floss to melt on your tongue. The character of the mother manages to be simultaneously alluring and disgusting. As a reader, we buy into the enigma of her; we desire her; we almost forgive her. And we watch as Astrid, the daughter, emulates some of her motherโs mistakes, and makes some of her own. We watch her suffer, grieve, fuck, and start to bite back.
โThere is so much we donโt understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.โ
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
โUntil each of us becomes our own leader we really donโt have a chance of changing anything.โ - Alice Walker