October 2011
185 posts
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via bookstorecouture) <3
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via reckon)
“For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark—my thirst for books, my...”
– Anais Nin. Always.
Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923 (via monamade)
“Yes, you want to scream, shit is fucked up, but have you seen the colors? My god...”
– ~ Dream Hampton on Detroit from Is This Detroit Or Calcutta? (and two of my favorite sentences published.)
“(One more) These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to...”
– Grace Lee Boggs
“The struggle we’re dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of...”
– Grace Lee Boggs (peace to Detroit)
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are...”
– Mother Teresa (via monamade)
“To imply, however, that all womyn suffer the same oppression simply because we...”
– Audre Lorde, An Open Letter to Mary Daly (via mujerinterrumpida)
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet,
undisputed...”
– ANNA JULIA COOPER, 1892
“Lyrics to The Makings of You:
A little sugar, honey suckle lamb
Great...”
– Curtis Mayfield (via monamade)
This man. My God.
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
– C.S. Lewis. (via travismontez)
Poster campaign against racist halloween costumes →
madamethursday:
saucy-sarah:
There’s more:
[Image: A young Arab man holding up a photograph of a white person offensively dressed in stereotyped “Sheik” clothing with a pretend bomb duct taped to their chest, holding a plastic cup and smiling. The text says: We’re a culture, not a costume. This is not who I am and this is not okay.]
[Image: A young East Asian woman decent holding up...
“Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her...”
– Audre Lorde (via lovealesia) (via tobia) (via notesonascandal, midnightsnak-deactivated2010112) (via flymetothemooon) (via notesonascandal) (via clint-tastic) (via dingane1) (via provocatoria) (via jadedfucker) (via liquornspice) (via arieswym)
“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from...”
– Zora from “Their Eyes Were Watching God” 