a politics that must hope for the worst and can think the future only as apocalypse and tabula rasa

I evidently project a certain tabula rasa quality

Marriage was a new beginning equal to a romantic reading of the destructive nature of war: a tabula rasa.

Without tabulae rasase or miraculous events, it is within the tendencies and affordances of our world today that we must locate the resources from which to build a new hegemony.

Happy just as I was at nineteen. My brain is a tabula rasa—and life excites me.

the desk. One day, I’d told myself, I’ll need to clean it properly and thoroughly, transform it into a tabula rasa upon which I might compose a great, momentous work. I’d been right: that day was now.

Could we begin our conversation over again, at a tabula rasa of black creative freedom