Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience Liberties | Salmagundi | World Literature Today 📚 amazon.com/author/yahialababidi
If, as Rumi says, the wound is the place where the Light enters us, then we must keep our wound clean.
Signs of spiritual evolution? That our slighter transgressions torment us for longer.
Acceptance is to receive with open hands only what is freely offered.
“For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” —Nietzsche
“You and I have so much to mourn. Our souls are as delicate as lace And our lace is tattered and torn.” — Sherman Alexie
We can and must be kind and brave, my friends, responding to the darkness and ugliness with Light & Beauty. 🙏✨
“I sought my God and my God I couldn't find; I sought my soul and my soul eluded me; I sought to serve my brother in his need, and I found all three; My God, my soul, and thee.” — William Blake
James Baldwin’s vision of the artist as moral witness, mystic-activist, and truth-teller. upstreamjournal.org/james-baldwi... #blacksky #faith #art
The artist as preacher: James Baldwin’s sacred task -
James Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924, the eldest of nine children and stepson to a severe preacher. He came of age in the afterglow of the Harlem Renaissance, within a nation still disfigured by r...
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“… let them forgive and overlook, do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. ” —Quran 24:22
From what you have, create what you have not The poem teaches the poet.
Sliman Mansour, "Camels of Hardship" (1973) 🇵🇸 You can find out more about this important #Palestine #art, here: middleeastrevised.com/2014/05/10/s...
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. —Kahlil Gibran [ #Nature #photography by Kent Burgess]
Luck: another name for Grace. * Chance: another word for Destiny. * Remind the wounded child of their ever-merciful parent: G_d.
Kind words and the covering of faults are better than charity followed by injury. Allah is free of all wants, and He is Most-Forbearing. —Quran 2: 263
“O Allah! You give power to whom You will and You take power from whom You will. You honour whom You will and You humble whom You will. Verily! You are over all things competent." —Quran, 3:26
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.” —Noam Chomsky, The Responsibility of Intellectuals
"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us." —Gibran
2 things that stain the mind long after they have stained the hands: blood and newspapers.
Words of mine, posted up on a wall in Brooklyn. Rene Harriman is a New York-based street artist: renesterling.com #book #art
There are many ways to donate blood... www.newvillagepress.org/ifyoucannots... #booksky #Palestine #Israel #news #IfYouCannotSayGenocide 🩸 @newvillagepress.bsky.social
“Fascism, especially if coupled with the methods of entertainment, offers the relief of passion so ferocious it blinds and hypnotizes supporters into waging war on their own society.” —David Masciotra on David Foster Wallace @readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
David Foster Wallace and Democracy
David Foster Wallace said that life as a famous writer is comparable to working as a TV weatherman in a mid-sized city. You’re only recognized when you are “in the right place at the right time.” Desp...
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Israeli settlers who kill Palestinians with their government’s support: youtu.be/6nuWZZNooas?... #Israel #Palestine #News @democracynow.org
Death of Awdah Hathaleen: Report Details Settler Killing of "No Other Land" Producer in West Bank
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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I only stand with my face toward you with staff in hand ready to go. Kierkegaard
If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE 🍉 Digital review copies of If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE are available through NetGalley. Reviewers may also contact the author, directly: Lababidi.ink @ Gmail.com www.newvillagepress.org/ifyoucannots... #writingcommunity #booksky #Palestine #news #Israel
