February 2012
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neutralnoodle asked: Hi. :) Your blog is amazing! I'm South African and a bit confused after seeing a post of yours on black history month. Why do you only have one month dedicated to black history? Why is it even called black history? To me it is american history and should be celebrated and talked about all the time.
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“Friendships are not one-size-fits-all; some will be lifelong, while others will...”
– Stephanie S. Smith on Relevant.com. (via unfamiliarize)
Watchhusssel:
BYU Students on African Americans (I can’t find the words for this)
OMG
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Anonymous asked: Hi. I love your quotes!!! Thanks!
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for...”
– Huey P Newton (via thisbeautifulwound)
"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it....
letssharestories:
- Sheikh Yassir Fazaga
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Every so often... #Random Rumination no.6
… I have a - ’ God, where are You? ’ kind of day. Like I’m too tired to throw the towel in, and almost too frustrated to blink, let alone hope. Superfluously annoyed with delusions of grandeur. Hm. The seesaw that is human emotion, or a right-brained person.
Increasing my awareness on global issues doesn’t help, I become more disillusioned and annoyed with the...
“Perhaps the most important thing we have to remember about the black tradition...”
– Bryan Wagner, Disturbing the Peace, p. 1. »thefactofblackness. (via tobia)
This is a given but I am still startled by the number of black people seeking refuge and identity in the gross fabrication that is blackness, a remain of racial slavery.
(via dreams-from-my-father)
EXACTLY!!!!!!!
(via...
"Illegal immigrants" can't be both lazy and...
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via kushnstarbucks)
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Knowledge is power - An ode to my parents.
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Walking into [my] your dads flat, you’ll either hear the intro to the BBC World Service on the radio, or some banging reggae. You’ll definately trip over the New African, some cut outs of the Obamas, the Daily Gleaner, and an open atlas on your way to the living room. You won’t see him, he’s in the kitchen, cutting ginger cake and pouring iced water - in London....
January 2012
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via daretobeblack)
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“Who are you? You don’t know? Don’t tell me ‘Negro.’ That’s nothing. What were...”
– Malcolm X (via cultureofresistance)