#inspiration

The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek - it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas. - Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture, 1993 ↗

— Toni Morrison

#politics #design

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#faith #inspirational #lds #patience #sanctification

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #fashion #inspirational #success #design

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #designer #fashion #inspirational #music

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #fashion #inspirational #success #design

Everyone wants to be a God. We manufacture our own worlds, duping ourselves with things to escape the reality we call our lives. Drugs, alcohol, sex, work, school. Bigger houses, newer cars and designer clothes are the universes we invent to exert our god-like rule. We can't control the weather, but it's always a perfect seventy-two degrees in our central-air controlled worlds. ↗

— Brian Krans

#inspirational #worlds #design

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. ↗

— Donald A. Norman

#communication

Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. He ordered them to bring five different options and he would pick the one he liked. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#inspirational #design

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#inspirational

Be brave, follow dreams, say fuck you to everybody and fight for what you believe in. ↗

— Jared Leto

#dreams