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Tony Pennino
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Associate Professor of Literature at Stevens Institute of Technology, which means I’ve taught everything from Spaceships to Shakespeare. I wrote a book on 1980s British subversive theatre. Am writing one on James Baldwin. Fulbright Scholar. Playwright.
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“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake
“There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to be it.”
― Amanda Gorman
February 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
“We are all one—and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.”
Bayard Rustin
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Happy Societally Mandated Corporately Sanctioned Artificially Determined Overpriced Stress Inducing Aesthetically Questionable Love Day to all who celebrate.
February 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
― Ida B. Wells
February 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Rewatching Deliver Me from Nowhere. Already bawling. #FilmSky
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February 14, 2026 at 3:19 AM
“I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.”
― Ralph Ellison
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I’m sorry, Dave, but the Dow is at 50,000 points.
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February 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
“The Dow is over 50,000 points.”
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February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― James Baldwin
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
― Frederick Douglass
February 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
“History is time that won't quit.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
John Lewis
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This week in teaching. It’s going to be a weird one. #AcademicSky #FilmSky
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 PM
"I felt a great disturbance in MAGA, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
What is it with this superbowl and urine?
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 AM
This halftime show is great.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
I wish this concert had more music because it’s great.
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Whew.
February 9, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I was promised owls.
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 AM
“All literature is protest.”
― Richard Wright
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Just saw Peter Hujar’s Day. Perfect piece of filmmaking: simple and beautiful. #FilmSky
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Dear Europe,
You didn’t boo JD Vance enough.
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
bell hooks
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
What football teams are playing at the Bad Bunny/Green Day concert?
February 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM