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Posted on February 13, 2012 via YoungEarlGrey. with 18,559 notes
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R.I.P Etta James (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012)
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You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them, and fly.
Rumi(via basseyworld)
Posted on December 26, 2011 via Me, Myself & I. with 53 notes
Source: bennsu
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I feel like I’m part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we’re actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago. Obsessing over who’s getting married, who’s having kids, who’s more successful. It’s like we’re recreating high school every single day using social media. And it’s weird.
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Joyce Vincent was 41 when she was found dead in her home, but she was 38 when she died. For three years, from 2003-2006, her body lay surrounded by Christmas gifts she was planning to wrap; the television still on. How does this happen? Especially to a woman who was social, who two-years prior had a high-powered job at Ernst and Young, who had rubbed elbows with celebrities, and who wanted to get married? That’s what Carol Morley set to find out. But her new documentary film, “Dreams of a Life,” is about more than just Joyce Vincent, a young, beautiful London woman whose parents were from the Caribbean and who no one seemed to miss when she was gone. It’s about life, death, and loneliness.”
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Posted on December 16, 2011 via dream hampton with 13,317 notes
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Posted on December 12, 2011 via The Daily Hussy with 10 notes
Source: superhussyisms
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Life lesson. I will try to remember this.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment…’dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love — which is to transform us.’ Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.
bell hooks (via thechocolatebrigade)(via basseyworld)
Posted on November 7, 2011 via Sick Sad World with 118 notes
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OMG. I about died laughing.
Jealousy…
Let me tell you something, even though I love Julie Andrews and Maria with all my heart, I seriously ache for the Baroness.
There is no way in goddamn hell some virgin nun is going to come and take dick I had been working on for YEARS in a matter of mere weeks. Bitch was dressed in drapes and fell in water and snatched your man right under your damn nose.
She even left!
And what did you do? You sat there and took the high road and basically pushed him over to Maria after she left.
Girl you are trippin. There is now way I’d let that fine fuck of a man go run off to sing songs and play guitar and juggle grapes and shit. We’d be together right now, fucking.
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I asked my 105 interviewees, What is the most racist thing that has ever happened to you? The response I received most often was indicative of modern racism: The answer is unknowable. “I imagine it’d be a thing I don’t even know ever happened,” Aaron McGruder said. “It would be that opportunity that never manifested and I’ll never know that it was even possible.” A decision is made in a back room or a high-level office, perhaps by someone you’ll never see, about whether or not you get a job or a home loan or admission to a school. Or perhaps you’ll never be allowed to know that a home in a certain area or a job is available. This is how modern institutional racism functions and it can weigh on and shape a black person differently than the more overt, simplistic racism of the past did.
Posted on October 31, 2011 via Shana Elmsford with 142 notes
Source: The Atlantic
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Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don’t want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
— Audre Lorde(via lovealesia) (via tobia) (via notesonascandal, midnightsnak-deactivated2010112) (via flymetothemooon) (via notesonascandal) -
I believe I have inside of me everything I need to live a bountiful life.
~ Miss Celie (The Color Purple)
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You are drawing me to you.
That is your art.
I am drawn.
— Saul Williams
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