September 2011
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
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~Puff
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If this is true, this is reason #443929 I love Miles Davis
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wow...
WatchDope soul from South Africa.
afrobeautiqueen asked: I just wanted you to know that you look amazing with your new hair. I love it when women go bold and cut their hair off. You look like a Nubian princess!
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“That’s why I love you and yet not why.
There are so many reasons, and yet...”
– Pablo Neruda
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Things I want to do with you:
wllc:
dreadsandglasses:
Talk about how unexpected everything is until we can fully digest everything that we’ve become.
Become everything.
Read our favorite children’s books to each other.
Not talk.
Stare at each other until we both drown happily.
Have sex because we can.
Leave love notes around for the other to find.
Get married.
Hug each other’s mom.
Keep loving it all.
Mmm hmmm.
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch (via furthermucker)
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“because too many women and girls, who look like me, haven’t always been invited...”
– Salamishah Tillet (http://bit.ly/qbazA6 )
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“African women in general need to know that it’s okay for them to be the way they...”
– Wangari Maathai beautiful obituary here:http://post.ly/3Nf3k
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“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find...”
– Dr. Seuss <3
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“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of...”
– Desmond Tutu (via madametoutnoire)
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All Things James Baldwin.: James Baldwin: His... →
“He was all the way live, all the way conscious, turned all the way up, receiving and broadcasting, sometime so hard, what needed to, would back up from those two television tubes poking out of his head!”
allthingsjamesbaldwin:
Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 27, Column 3; Book Review Desk Byline: By Amiri Baraka
First of all, Jimmy...
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“Whatever melodious beauty I found, living in the spotlight, my country produced...”
– K’Naan from his NYT article discussing his return home after twenty years. http://bit.ly/psQrYi
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
– Toni Morrison (from Song of Solomon)
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“You are right in assuming that I am indifferent to the pattern of things. I am....”
– Zora Neale Hurston in a letter to Countee Cullen. (via jonubian)
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“We are deeply concerned. As Black women and girls we find no space in SlutWalk,...”
– From: An Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk- http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-from-black-women-to.html
I just holy ghost shouted.
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“…when I say carry yourself like a man, I don’t mean whether he’s feminine or...”
– Michael Kenneth Williams on the “Omar,” the character he animated for The Wire.
Good interview with him in the September/October issue of Mother Jones: Read the full interview, plus bonus audio of Omar whistling, here.
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“It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish...”
– Zora Neale Hurston (of course I am praying for Troy Davis.)
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he...”
– Leo Tolstoy from Anna Karenina (and devastatingly beautiful)
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“ People think a soulmate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. A...”
– -elizabeth gilbert (via missjodie)
THIS. this particular paragraph completely changed the way i think about romantic relationships when i first read it some odd years ago.
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On Soulmates.
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“because of love i have become the giver of light.”
– rumi (via lyteworks)
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“Capital punishment is society’s final assertion that it will not forgive.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via yourhue)
