December 2011
On Eating and Drinking
thearabianjournal:
Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light. But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship. And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still...
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notyourkinddear replied to your post: somedays i hate my life
“Like” as in “sending love & good energy, I know some of what you’re talking about & feel for you”, not as in any of this ish is good. Obviously. Please tell me they aren’t still talking ish on FB at least…
no, not on fb. but i have to deal with these ppl in real life. like nowhere is safe. i hate this. i need to change my...
somedays i hate my life
i feel like crying. srsly. and i would, but i have a headache instead.
i just dont get it…i center black poor third world queer girls in my work not because that is who i am, but because, because, because THAT IS THE ETHICAL THING TO DO!
believe it or not, im not actually too happy that my personal identity is so close to being one of the more oppressed people on this earth. i dont...
First Step to Becoming an Adult:Stop Punishing...
intelligentrambling:
still letting go of a few things, but for the most part i’m done holding onto those things
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“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their...”
– Rumi (via blackstarastronomy)
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“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by...”
– william faulkner, december 10, 1950, accepting the nobel prize for literature (via isabelthespy)
“You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight...”
– Fred Hampton, later murdered by the Chicago PD. (via loveandzombies)
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“The spiritual life is not about belief or unbelief — it’s all about letting go...”
– Marilyn Sewell (via dewdropsoflove)
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“There is nothing concrete to grasp in
looking into the morning sky
The...”
– Ed Roberson, “Here” (via proustitute)
cause how can there be a ‘counter revolution’ if there wasnt/isnt a revolution to begin with?
it would be cool if there was a frantz fanon reading club and a bunch of folks were reading and discussing wretched of the earth and how it applied to the arab spring…
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“How should there be Black poets in America?
It was not natural. And she was the...”
– June Jordan, “The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley” February, 1985 (via negrosunshine)
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“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature,...”
– Henry Miller (via little-fighter)
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new mission in life
make a revolutionary cairo children’s book!
my kid used to have nightmares about police shooting me. and we had to work through (active imagination work) to help her feel a certain level of self-comfort with all the changes happening around us…
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“To prevent Africans and Native Americans from uniting, Europeans played...”
– William Loren Katz, Black Indian: A Hidden Heritage (via adailyriot)
“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.”
– Langston Hughes (via ihavelovedyousolong)
On the word classy.
bonjoursex:
As women, we are often told to “have some class.” This word has always irked me because it basically means, “Wow, look at how good she is at being a lady the right way, the socially acceptable way,” which is a weird fucking thing to say.
Classy means having or behaving like a higher-class member of society, amirite? Who inhabits this higher class, usually? Straight,...
We want to rebuild the world, not reform it.
cultureofresistance:
Or to stop industrial activities, by any means necessary, that are pushing nature to her limits and re-collectivize and re-localize land ownership and the means of production, or simply, to decolonize earth and let her heal herself while we live in thriving egalitarian land-based communities of humans and non-humans.
again. White people: all the same.
Q: But sometimes whites feel that all white people are being similarly equated, when in fact attitudes among whites range from the Ku Klu Klan right over to the saints.
Toni Morrison: Black people have always known that. We've had to distinguish among you because our lives depended on it. I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everyone's contempt. If we are not totaly understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons
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“It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...”
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute)
queerbrownxx asked: Congrats on landing the dance teaching gig! I hope you get the teens too. They're so fun to teach (when they're actually engaged).
ok. fine. im wearing my freakum dress tonight.
that dress is so fierce it kills small mammals.
plus the other one is dirty tonight…
hey! im a dancer teacher again! yay!
mainly beginner’s jazz classes for adults, but hopefully also a teen class as well.
start in mid january when all the foreigners get back from break.
going out dancing tonight to celebrate. <3
sexartandpolitics asked: From what I read one of the dangers of postterm births is a lack of the vernix caseosa... that it serves to help with passage of the infant. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming semester of OB and pediatrics.
“The U.S. Government doesn’t drop bombs on people because of their race....”
– Norman Solomon, This War and Racism (via darkjez)
speaking of bombs, how bout this truth bomb?
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is...”
– Edvard Munch (via moonbrains)
