“Because I am a man long ago forsaken by human beings,
I live on earth, together with the hearts of dogs similarly abandoned.
I will never wage war either for justice or against evil
and I cowardly shut my eyes to love.
I willingly laugh at obscenity and worry not a bit over misery,
and live shitting and pissing everywhere.
Because I am a man who long ago despaired of human beings,
I live surrounded by trash, junk, things of no use,
despising all utility.
Being neither a merchant nor a salaried worker, nor a manufacturer,
that is, not a fraud, not a liar, not a thief, just a ‘Nobody’,
I hide among garbage and junk and such useless things and live as I like in a deserted house of the soul.”- Toshio Nakae
Today In History
‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863. Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.’
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman
(photo: Harriet Tubman)
- CARTER Magazine
