December 2011
127 posts
“why motherfucker is a word
and fatherfucker isn’t
is all I know of woman’s...”
– The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms, Mark Leidner (via golehyas)
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be...”
– Maya Angelou (via nettledream)
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“Melvin Tolson: Who is the judge?
Debate Team: The judge is God.
Melvin Tolson:...”
– -The Great Debaters
(via mainstr3am)
The best thing any parent or educator could ever...
queenjulia:
is simply to think for yourself.
Question everything.
Come up with your own truths from thinking things through.
& be confident in why you think or feel that certain way.
such a good skill to have.
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
BUT OMG RACISM DOESN’T EXIST!
(via nessfraserloves)
That is seriously disturbing.
(via ladyatheist)
you have to pay to adopt kids?
(via ethereal-eyes)
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have...”
– George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (via paperlover)
““Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the...”
– THIS. Hanne Blank (via thestoutorialist)
I feel like this is needed today.
(via fumblingtowardshappiness)
definitely.
(via praisethelorde)
“The worst slave owners were those that were kind to their slaves. They prevented...”
– Slavoj Zizek (something to consider)
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In case I forget.
At 22, you are a pan-Africanist. Still an only child. You adore music and dance, galleries and theatres. You breathe literature and writing, your bookcase is home. You travel to parks, alighting rocks to write poetry. Someday you will be an author, if you aren’t arrested.
You attended SOAS university in London. (School of Oriental and African Studies) to annoy your mother and to make your...
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,...”
– Bruce Lee (via quote-book)
khaoticspace asked: I absolutely love your blog!
“Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not...”
– Dalai Lama XIV (via epiphanys-child)
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Presents and things like you
Somewhere down the line, there will be an us falling over his toy truck. It will be when we laugh, that I’ll remember I prayed for this with chattering teeth on cold knees, with steamed screams and an arched back before you came. That you suddenly made it real when you scurried off to your desk at midnight, to write about me life, the Bible, a to do list maybe. I pretended to sleep and turn...
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peluchita: How to Read →
moderateclimates:
Read ten books at once, and breathe different walks of life. Recite quotes to strangers you have never met before, and watch them look at you with widened eyes and raised eyebrows. They’ll hurry away, thinking you some homeless person, high on drugs, and you’ll laugh and pity them. The more obscure the quote, the better. Instead of your room being strewn with clothes and makeup...
