||Don’t think because a man is one color today that he wasn’t another color thousands of years ago.||
||Ultimately, to ask Science to tell you who you are is a shortcut: It’s lazy. And we still have to ask those same questions ourselves.||
~ 黃哲倫, The DNA Trail
||Akavya ben Mehalalel say, |Reflect upon three things and you will not come to transgression: know from where you came, to where you are heading, and before Whom you are destined to give an accounting for your actions.|||
~ Pirkei Avot, Chapter 3 Mishna 1
||Tradition is gut because you have to know where you’ve been to know where you’re going:||
||I’m grateful for everyone I’ve met in my life whether they left or stayed.||
||We are tribeless and all tribes are ours. | We are homeless and all homes are ours. | We are nameless and all names are ours. | To the fascists we are the faceless enemy | Who come like thieves in the night, angels of death: | The ever moving, shining, secret eye of the storm.||
~ From Open Letter to Filipino Artists by Emmanuel Lacaba aka The Brown Rimbaud, Salvaged Poems and Salvaged Prose; author of posthumous volume entitled, Bar Mitzvah
