April 2012
218 posts
Sara Bareilles' My Love Lyrics. Beautiful.
He bends his breath around my name
And I am humbled I feel small and plain But his arms are angels by his side You need not ask if they’re open, just how wide His lips are day And his skin is night Oooh, and with our love we conjure up the twilight His fingers are music to my soul And I feel his song play everywhere I go My love, my love is on his way I can’t wait to see...
“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly...”
– Toni Morrison (via queergiftedblack)
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the...”
– Caroline Myss (via monamade)
“perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone...”
– rainer maria rilke (via dreamhampton1)
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Reason 34283478 why I love @mdtowrites
newmodelminority:
I hate when people talk about Oakland and they start with violence. It is the same way I feel when people talk shit about Baltimore.
I am inclined to be like “I am fucking from there, could you shut up?”
#oaklandisMagic
“Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten...”
– Chinua Achebe (via amandaonwriting) (Amen.)
“As Paulo Freire shows so well in “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed”,...”
– #fuckyeahaudrelorde
Art project (do this!)
sfmoma:
dallasclayton:
ART PROJECT
Draw a picture of the thing you love the most and beneath it write a small description of how and why. Take that picture and make fifty copies the size of business cards, cut them out and put them in your wallet. Each time you meet someone, instead of giving them your phone number give them this card. Once the first fifty are gone, make fifty more. Change...
“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage,...”
– Osho (via daughtersofdilla) Ayoooo…..
Occupy the Department of Justice
dreamhampton1:
Today in Washington D.C. on Mumia Abu Jamal’s birthday, after 30 years of false incarceration, Activists, Artists, Organizers made seven core demands of US Attorney General Holder:
1. Release Mumia Abu-Jamal 2. End mass incarceration and the criminalization of Black and Latino Youth 3. Create jobs, education, and health care, not jails 4. End solitary confinement and stop...
“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she...”
– Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden (via monamade)
“And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity,...”
– Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden (via monamade)
“My search for love led me to feminism. Feminist thinking freed me from the...”
– bell hooks looking for love, finding freedom
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