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Belgrade’s hidden gems

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Tony Hoagland, from “Dickhead”, Donkey Gospel

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JENNY HOLZER, DETAIL FROM LUSTMORD, 1994

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pools. 🐅

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Renown holding back Pegasus

By Eugène Louis Lequesne

Photo by Louis-Emile Durandelle

1875

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James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

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Statue of the goddess Aphrodite bathing in the garden of the Reggia di Caserta, Italy.

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thinking over and over and over of that clip from a maya angelou talk about the importance of knowing one another's history. no matter how brutal no matter how bleak no matter how despairing no matter anything because the only way through it is to go all the way through it. and the only way to build anything with one another is by having gone all the way through it because otherwise there is no connection. whats a connection worth that's built on ignorance? sustained by ignorance? "only equals can make friends" she says. only equals.

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@zzonna

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― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]

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Basti photographed by Niv Shank