January 2012
89 posts
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via unheardtruths)
First thing you should know about me, if I’m not between a 3 and a 7 on the...
– Kristen Bell
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Peace before everything. God before anything. Love before anything. Real before...
– Mos Def (via thechanelmuse)
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likealilikoi:
I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. — Sylvia Plath
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From Fences by August Wilson – Act 2, Scene 1
ROSE: I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a
life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you.
Don’t you think I ever wanted other things? Don’t you think I had dreams
and hopes? What about my life? What about me. Don’t you think it ever
crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up
somewhere and...
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African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via sociolab) This. Whenever (white) people preach about “the good ol’ days,” I want to punch them in the throat. (via ethiopienne)
When a college friend told me that I was “cute for a black girl,” her statement...
– Not Everyone’s Laughing At “Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls (via thetart)
“To ask that we not speak about them, or that we focus on “something more important,” is to erase our lived experiences and to ignore the ways the accumulation of little things can add to the weight of racism.”
Can I...
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Sometimes i trip on how happy we could be…
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When we see love as the will to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth,...
– bell hooks
Toni Morrison writes that the idea of romantic love and physical beauty are “probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.”
(via daughtersofdilla)
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Chrissy Teigen Gets Me! →
Yesssssss! I absolutely love her!
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