"Peace and happiness are available if we can only quiet our distracted thinking long enough to come back to the present moment and notice the blue sky, the child’s smile, the beautiful sunrise."
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step (via app1ejuice)
"You are the beautiful distress of mathematics. For you I would peel open the clouds like new fruit and give you lightening and thunder as a dowry. I would make the sky shed all of its stars, light and rain and I would clasp the constellations across your waist and I would make the heavens your cape and they would be pleased to cover you. They would be pleased to cover you. May I please cover you?"
— Yasiin Bey (via awomansplaceisinthestruggle)
PLEASE REBLOG, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF NEW YORK, PITTSBURGH, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW JERSEY!!!!
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Frantz Fanon
It’s been 22 years, but it feels like yesterday. We still miss you, Jim.
"”Those that constantly drain you, consider them your enemies…"
— (via sexiestgiraffe)
"
He said “you are the most worthless thing I love”
And yet she called it love nonetheles
held her like a father should have and she loved him.
The way silly women do sometimes.
He promised her happily ever afters
so long as she never dreamed outside arms reach,
so long as she remained a frightened burden,
a wretched tool that fixed his insecurities
at dusk when no one was awake to see the dark disappear.
”
— (via sexiestgiraffe)
Eve Arnold, School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face, Virginia, 1960
wow!!! this is what white supremacy has done to our people mentally turned out I pray our people see this and connect the dots and wake up and love ourselves if you came out that color that’s hat YOU we’re meant to be!!!
Who taught you to hate YOURSELF ? She was beautiful already
One of the HIGHEST LEVELS of SELF-HATE.
This is rife all over Africa. So wrong. Your black is beautiful!
what I live by.
