Duende.1.1: a modernist, tactically vague aesthetic descriptor whose effective purpose was to attribute a non-categorical, non-assessable, non-confirmable and ostensibly occult quality to a work or author, in order both to mark that work, author, or affiliated group for social distinction and to legitimate the fetish of author, text, technique. Descriptors like duende are pseudo-concepts created in the struggles for recognition within literary communities.
Duende.1.2: that quality of any artistic group enthralled by its own artifacts, objects, actors and battles for distinction whose presence makes it difficult for that group to cultivate genuine warmth, affiliative emotion, ethical activism, love, interconnectedness, cooperation.
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A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished....
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1999
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity.
We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.
- Archbishop Tutu, 2008
A traveler through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu, but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve?
- Nelson Mandela
Ubuntu! Ubuntu! Ubuntu!
- Boston Celtics, 2007-present
But there will dawn ere long on our politics, on our modes of living, a nobler morning..., in the sentiment of love. This is the one remedy for all ills, the panacea of nature. We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible. Our age and history, for these thousand years, has not been the history of kindness, but of selfishness. Our distrust is very expensive....Let our affection flow out to our fellows; it would operate in a day the greatest of all revolutions....Let me feel that I am to be a lover. I am to see to it that the world is the better for me, and to find my reward in the act....It is the symbol of the power of kindness.
- Emerson, "Man the Reformer," 1841
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"A man has a right to be employed, to be trusted, to be loved, to be revered. The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion, if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions: nor doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end." - Emerson, "Politics"
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