May 2013
23 posts
Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD (i.e. ADHD... →
French children don’t need medications to control their behavior.
i have a daughter/ mozambique
i have a son/ angola
our twins
salvador &...
– nzotake shange, bocas: a daughter’s geography. (via black-poetry)
This is OD!
So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of
waiting ...
– Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our...
– Erykah Badu, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (via beautiful-ambition)
Beyonce Feat Andre 3000 - Back to Black Official... →
Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that...
– Cheryl Strayed (via creatingaquietmind)
Things my mother taught me:
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
Know the night and its dangers
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...
– Naomi Shihab Nye doe (via scatteredclaws)
“always carry a plant, always stay rooted to somewhere” sigh. I love this.
duhdoydorothy:
unimpressed2chainz:
i just really don’t see the point of declaring yourself to be anti-racism what purpose does it serve
whenever white people tell me “i am anti-racist” im like “yeah duh im anti-kicking puppies, you are supposed to be against terrible things”
April 2013
69 posts
4/29
every time I plant roots
the weather grows angry.
I’m still writing about you and you haven’t read a word.
– Travis Grandt (via cariosus)
3 percent of the decision-making in media comes from women. That means 97...
– Independent Lens, PBS “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” (via ihopeyoucontinue4ever)
It also means that 97 percent of how men are portrayed in media are decided on by men. Something to remind MRAs and their ilk of when they complain about the stereotype of men as inept...
There’s no such thing as an inferior people. There are oppressed people. And...
– Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Taken from one of his last speeches, 1998
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW45PbSXyMM
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
mckswift:
I’m trying to figure out how to misappropriate white culture…
miguu:
men who can speak so beautifully about god, or a text or the millions of other things that they fall in love with but have nothing in their mouths nothing so articulate so sacred about the women who create them.
things you say to someone before becoming...
miguu:
“there is something in your voice that does not like me.”
“why can’t you wait for my thoughts to find you, before you sweep them down your hands.”
“you are so beautiful, but your walls are falling on me.”
“i am not a wish, please do not hide me in your feet.”
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never...
– Frida Kahlo, The Diary Of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (via violentwavesofemotion)