May 2013
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Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD (i.e. ADHD... →
French children don’t need medications to control their behavior.
May 21st
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“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!
May 21st
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“So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting ...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)
May 21st
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May 17th
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“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)
May 13th
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Beyonce Feat Andre 3000 - Back to Black Official... →
May 11th
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“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that...”
– Cheryl Strayed (via creatingaquietmind)
May 7th
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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
May 7th
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May 6th
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“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.
May 5th
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May 5th
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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”
May 4th
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April 2013
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Apr 30th
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every time I plant roots the weather grows angry.
Apr 29th
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“I’m still writing about you and you haven’t read a word.”
– Travis Grandt (via cariosus)
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“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...
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“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)
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mckswift: I’m trying to figure out how to misappropriate white culture…
Apr 28th
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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.
Apr 27th
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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.”
Apr 27th
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“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)
Apr 27th
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