June 2011
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“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the...”
– John Irving (via heyfranhey)
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May 2011
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“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via heyfranhey)
9 Timeless Nutrition Tips for Any Age →
Your health is your life. Make it a priority.
There are a zillion nutrition tips floating around out there. Here are a few simple ones that have worked well for me over the years.
Limit junk food or don’t eat it at all. – Whatever junk food you have in your kitchen, throw it out and replace it with healthy foods and snacks. Look into other ways to comfort yourself and think of food as...
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thatkindofwoman)
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Watchlaithprojects:
The Artful Dodger: Michael Jackson Wall Project.
Follow The Artist: @LaithHPoetry
Follow the Director/Editor: @JyeOram
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“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
– African Proverb (via adam-soul)
streetetiquette:
ACME - We Got the Love
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via lipsticksmiles)
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“Influence is not influence, It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind...”
– Basquiat. (via afrosandpeeptoes)
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“I’m a black queen in a post modern paradigm
Beautiful, black, divine, supreme...”
– Lauryn Hill, Foxy (via natural-eccentricity)
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“The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you point your...”
– Bob Marley, Could You Be Loved (via natural-eccentricity)
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“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you...”
– Stephen King, Different Season (via quote-book)
Vishuddha: Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living →
mujerinterrumpida:
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a...
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’...”
– MAYA ANGELOU (via afrosandpeeptoes)
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WatchTrailer
earwormwax:
Congratulate Nas on winning an Emmy for his ESPN documentary entitled “Survival 1” about “two young amputees, survivors of the Liberian civil war, who go on to form a soccer team–and become champions.”
“After all these years of making music, I am honored to have this be the first award I have ever won of this magnitude,” said Nas in his acceptance speech. “An Emmy before a...
WatchThis documentary from Min Sook Lee (Tiger Spirit) follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town’s population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of...
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“Awareness of the world around you is essential, but awareness of the self is...”
– teffTHEdon. (via teffthedon)
Black Fashion: borednschooled: The 7 Layers of... →
borednschooled:
The 7 Layers of Division in Black America
There’s a great wish in the African American community for a wonderful utopia known as UNITY. The word brings about images of 70′s era movies where everyone picks their blow-out Afros, slaps high-fives and echoes “Right on!” in…
