AAL Mood Board
Quotes and images to inspire the activist applied linguist in you
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
-Adrienne Rich
Individually we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
-Ryunosuke Satoro
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
-Maya Angelou
"Instructions on Not Giving Up"
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
-Ada Limón
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
-Desmond Tutu
“If you want peace, work for justice.”
-Pope Paul VI
Now in a time of caution and fear, in an atmosphere turgid with non-direction and non-expressivity, let us laugh and let laugh, lighten the air we breath, and feel clean
-Leonard Bernstein
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
-Coretta Scott King
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