“The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.” — Naval Ravikant

“Tate had an anti-entitlement, anti-elitist spirit and leaned into the real world instead, attending the clubs and parties where the music was played rather than engaging as a remote voyeur”—@Harmony_Holiday pays tribute to Greg Tate, from the archive

"Only dangerous and violent contradictions, insoluble inner antinomies, indicate a fertile intellectual life, because only they can realize inner turmoil and excess." Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

"The dead little girl says, I am the one who guffaws in horror inside the lungs of the live one. Get me out of there at once." Antonin Artaud, Suppôts et supplications

“Shakespeare is no longer just a playwright; he is an industry. Beginning with the waning golden age of the theater in the late nineteenth century, Shakespeare became the property of academics, transformed from entertainment into high culture.” https://t.co/rHKYBAlOFy

I don’t want chic, incisive novels by people who know how to mingle at publishing-adjacent parties…I want to read bizarre, singular, musical novels by quasi-mystic basketcases who are otherwise shit at being alive

Bohr was inconsistent, unclear, willfully obscure and right. Einstein was consistent, clear, down-to-earth and wrong. -- J. Stewart Bell

“As I look back on it, I think you can feel the unrest and the dis-ease with closure even in my first book.” —Nathaniel Mackey https://t.co/OxGqC8rPjp

Strange book.

Stay obsessed with improvement, not applause.

"You like white women who listen to Lyfe Jennings"- Sean P (😂

Given the choice between going out and reading this, the winner is clear.

behind every writer is an arbitrary deadline they set for themselves that they stress over meeting every. single. day.

Khayamnandi’s own. 🙌🏾

Ritalin

This one of mister thole says I'm a hater because why don't I wanna join group readings. 😂

Love these cats. Dayile, Joja, Mogorosi.

Hip-hop masterpiece.

J Dilla & Madlib digging records.

@HillsJah as per our discussion last night pa. 🤣 please write that piece.