Quote
"Now’s the time to act. We’re not a people that just look and watch and wait to see what happens. We’re Americans. We make things happen. We’re tougher than these times, we are bigger than the smallness of our politics, we are patriots and we are pioneers, and innovators and entrepreneurs who through individual effort and through a common commitment to one another will build an economy that is once again the engine and the envy of the world. We will write our own destiny."

- Barack Obama, Jobs and the Economy | Jun2 9, 2011

(Source: c-spanvideo.org)

Photo
Adrienne Rich  once wrote, “When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.”
She was talking about the fact that some significant part of our self-perceptions, and the possibilities that we perceive for ourselves, depends on seeing people who we relate to and what they’ve accomplished.
This photo represents a moment of psychic equilibrium, a re-imagining and affirmation of self, for so many of us.

Adrienne Rich  once wrote, “When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.”

She was talking about the fact that some significant part of our self-perceptions, and the possibilities that we perceive for ourselves, depends on seeing people who we relate to and what they’ve accomplished.

This photo represents a moment of psychic equilibrium, a re-imagining and affirmation of self, for so many of us.