Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke leaves Queen of Angels hospital with her 6-day-old daughter Autumn Roxann. Yvonne was the first member of Congress to give birth while in office.
“Don’t lie about something before you’ve given it a chance to become true.”
The Barbers from “Coming To America”
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Top, photograph by Irving Klaw, 1950. Via. Bottom, photograph by Marc Asnin, from the series and book Uncle Charlie, 2012. Via. More.
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Rules are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and can be bent to any purpose. The success of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules, to replace those who have used them, to disguise themselves so as to perfect them, invert their meaning, and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them.
Michel Foucault, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, 1980. Via.
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After I took the photo, the man stuck around to give me his contact information. After a couple minutes, his wife started calling impatiently from outside. “I waited 40 years for her,” he said. “She can wait 5 minutes for me.”
(San Francisco, CA)
Hell hath no fury like a dude who has been told that his opinion is not needed or wanted.