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I wanna have a career like Emily Wilson. Do quiet, serious work, earn prestigious awards, have a major director include my work in his sources, have the discourse help me sell—literally—a million books, and still be able to go to the store without a lot of people recognizing me. An ideal career.

Unsolicited tip: Schedule the workout for after the 4-hour class.

For Sociology of Money, situating efforts to uncover private equity with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s research department. As SNCC’s Julian Bond said, “‘Power structure’ was no abstract phrase... but a real list with real people’s names and addresses and descriptions of assets.”

Ryan Coogler said, “When this thing is at its best” is “when it’s a job, bro, like when it’s a job that you’re incredibly passionate about and you can make a career out it, you’ve got a calling, but it is still just a job. It is still just an aspect of who you are.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “If I’m a writer and I end up writing like a politician, I kind of have already lost.” “You got to be able to go home at the end of the day… Your kids, your family, they have to be able to look at you and respect you as a human being, and as a person, and as a writer.”

Percival Everett said, “I want to write something that’s difficult for me. And interesting to me... I have to look at myself every morning in the mirror and be happy with what I’ve made.”

Authors that have done some of the most creative and challenging work talk about how they write for themselves, not readers.

Percival Everett said, “No one wants to read anything ‘beyond their means.’ ... I remember as a kid that many of my friends had no idea what Herman Hesse was talking about, but that thrilled them. That was a wonderful way to be. Now the response is, ‘I don’t understand that—why should I read it?’”

I postpone nothing. I no longer procrastinate... I pay closer and closer attention to incredible, surrounding reasons for celebration and faith I watch for good news. I work with folks to create good news. I become hourly more aware of the privileges conveyed by my human life. –– June Jordan

"I remember being very much aware that most retranslations maybe sell 1,000 copies if you’re lucky … you’re going to work very, very hard on it for five years, and then maybe a tiny number of people will read it — and of course I thought it was still worthwhile." www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

Hanif Abdurraqib said, “You outsource your writing to ChatGPT, and it is easy, but it makes you sound like no one and like everyone.”

@prisonculture.bsky.social Mariame, if you haven’t seen it, I think you’ll appreciate this sentence from a recent essay by Hanif Abdurraqib. “Convenience and inaction are often bedfellows.”

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

Super swole dudes who can’t touch their toes make me think of Solange discussing how the housing boom and being surrounded by construction projects inspired “Cranes in the Sky.” As she said, “All of this excessive building, and not really dealing with what was in front of us.”

I can still do front splits. At my age, this is an achievement.

It never ceases to amaze me how much hip strength is needed for building a strong core.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A handful of community groups and residents who live near the Meta data center project gathered Saturday, July 25 for what they called a “Block Party Protest.” More: https://www.ktsm.com/news/el-paso-meta-data-center-protest/ 

Courage without competition and solidarity without self-congratulation.

If we politically show up, we see others who have too. And then we can’t claim nobody is doing anything, lol.