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Audre Lorde on the Indivisibility of Identity and the Importance of Arts Education and Arts Funding
“The shortest statement of philosophy I have is my living, or the word ‘I.’”
November 9, 1928: The Trial of Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf’s Exquisite Case for the Freedom of Speech
“Writers produce literature, and they cannot produce great literature until they have free minds. The free mind has access to all knowledge and speculation of its age, and nothing cramps it like a taboo.”
The Source of Richard Feynman’s Genius
How the precious scarcity of knowledge imbued one of humanity’s most beloved minds with “the pleasure of finding things out.”
Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
“This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It’s also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both.”
9 Books About the Many Meanings of Time: A TED Bookstore Collaboration
From Ada Lovelace to dark matter, a kaleidoscopic lens on life’s most elusive dimension.
Young Barack Obama on Identity, the Search for a Coherent Self, and How We Fragment Our Wholeness with Polarizing Identity Politics
“Without power for the group, a group larger, even, than an extended family, our success always threatened to leave others behind.”
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
A Loving Illustrated Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Remarkable Life and Legacy
“I will not be ‘famous,’ ‘great.’ I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped.”
Great Writers on the Power of Music
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
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