February 2012
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“Iggy Azalea on the XXL freshman list is all wrong. How can you endorse a white...”
– Azealia Banks on hipster white girls appropriating Hip-Hop
Reason #238479238749823 to love her.
Also her album is gonna be called “Broke with Expensive Taste”
and she’s working with MIA.
(via urbanafrofuturism)
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“Worry about making people in your actual life like you. Or love you. Write on...”
– Stop Writing On The Internet To Make People Love You
a longer and prettier version of “fuck you, pay me.” (via champagnecandy)
“I
O what a physical effect it has on me
To dive forever into the light blue...”
– In Love with You by Kenneth Koch : Poetry Magazine (via loveandzombies)
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“Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...”
– New From Junot Díaz - NYTimes.com
Nice! (via irunfrombears)
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Ginsberg
isabelthespy:
eating-poetry:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I...
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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind...”
– Camus (via jonubian)
How much of a White ally are you?
satifice:
eshusplayground:
I shouldn’t have to say this, but I will because I really don’t want to see any bullshit on my dash.
If racial justice and anti-racism are not things you give a shit about, do everyone a favor and ignore this. It’s not for you (just like I keep my queer, Black, Jewish ass away from Stormfront because an environment that is unapologetically racist, anti-semitic, and...
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A Litany For Survival
usesforroots:
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of use who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children’s mouths so their...
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“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”
– ~Paul Tillich (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Extraordinary Machine: There is currently an... →
dreams-from-my-father:
Will black people be wiped out for the second time on African soil by Arabs while the international community - that armed and supported the rebels - says NOTHING??
The Tawerghas, a tribe of black Libyans in the South of the country, are being systematically targeted…
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“What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is...”
– Lacan (via kameelahwrites)
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“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes (via girlinboyclothes)
Ugg… what happened to my stolen copy of this book? I can’t find it. :( (via poemsofthedead)
Afro-Europe →
neoafrican:
Great blog that focuses on Africans and African descendants living in Europe.
From the House of Yemanjá, Audre Lorde
bonnietsunami:
My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters into girls before she fixed our dinner. My mother had two faces and a broke pot where she hid out a perfect daughter who was not me I am the sun and the moon and forever hungry for her eyes.
I bear two women upon my back one dark and rich and unhidden in the ivory hungers of the other mother pale as a...
as if nicki cant do emo. as. fucking. if.
In which one black (female) artist with simple...
Bon Iver: And I told you to be patient, and I told you to be fine. I told you to be balanced, and I told you to be kind, but now all your love is wasted. And then who the hell was I?
Death Cab: So one last touch and then you'll go and we'll pretend that it meant something so much more. But it was vile, and it was cheap and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me. Yeah, you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
Radiohead: But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling if I just turn and run. And it wears me out... It wears me out. If I could be who you wanted, if I could be who you wanted all the time... all the time.
Brand New: You are calm and reposed, let your beauty unfold. Pale white like the skin stretched over your bones, spring keeps you ever close. You are secondhand smoke, you are so fragile and thin standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can. You are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins.
Nicki Minaj: You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe.You a stupid hoe you a you a stupid hoe. You stupid stupid, you a stupid hoe
oh fuck this, lets do nicki minaj: i wish today it would rain all day, maybe that would kinda make the pain go away, trying to forgive you for abandoning me, praying but i think im still an angel away, angel away, yeah strange in a way, maybe that is why i chase strangers away, they got their guns out aiming at me...
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nothing2c replied to your photo
\o/ hey lovelies, from me and mine to you and yours!
xxooxo <3
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“Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong — it...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
Osho, always so soothing for the soul.
(via dreams-from-my-father)
wow (via theafrosistuh)
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can, and address...”
– Aldous Huxley (via creatingaquietmind)
What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home →
jhameia:
ardhra:
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
Excerpt:
There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I see continuously bog down discussion. I think they revolve...
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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Don't ever attach expectations onto anything. Just...
gillionaire:
I’ve learned that I personally get a LOT of anxiety from just wondering if something will or won’t happen. That sense of desperation about it just stacks up odds against you because you’re paranoid about its outcome.
So fuck it.
If you can handle the anxiety, you can handle it when it comes.
“White power secures its dominance by seeming not to be anything in particular....”
– George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
This!
(via larepublicadedet)
baddominicana:
CDC on racial differences in drug use:
“White high school students are seven times more likely than blacks to have used cocaine; eight times more likely to have smoked crack; ten times more likely to have used LSD and seven times more likely to have used heroin. What’s more, white youth ages 12-17 are more likely to sell drugs: 34% more likely, in fact than their black...
“The slaves are taught that petitions or elections, or lobbying for this or that...”
– Larken Rose (via liberationfrequency)
What even is to be civilized.
(via scarlet—-skyline)
to be “civilized” is to act according to how your colonizers want you to. in other words, to grovel at rich white mens feet and let them keep their boot on your neck.
(via baddominicana)
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“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than...”
– Barbara Marciniak (via nirvikalpa)
Pathophysiology
sexartandpolitics:
So I’m doing my care plan and my fake patient has black specks in her amniotic fluid after it breaks.
My textbook says nothing about black specks. Green = meconium and wine= blood and foul odor = infection.
Black specks makes me think placental detachment but that’s a wild guess.
Any educated guesses in the house?
ETA:
alexmuninn reblogged this from you and...
Nikki Giovanni Quotes
daniellemertina:
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roropcoldchain:
So today, my school had Nikki Giovanni as a bridge speaker between Black History Month and Women’s History Month. She’s so gorgeous and inspiring in person. Anyway, here are some quotes.
On the current war on women regarding various forms of contraception: “When did women become the enemy of children?”
On sex and how the old penalize the...
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