August 2011
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“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell...”
– Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, p. 79 (via dusttracksonaroad)
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“It’s like, we date people, like let’s say, you know, we’re interested in...”
– Ms. Lauryn Hill “Just take me as I am or take nothing at all.”
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I say this all the time.
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“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is...”
– Henry A. Kissinger (via laeticia)
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“Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done,...”
– The Notebook (via spartanbabyy)
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“I’d be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere...”
– Haruki Murakami (via moldavia)
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“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
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—Coco Chanel
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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– Maya Angelou (via furiouslynonlinear)
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“If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to...”
– African proverb (via liberationfrequency)
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Nietzsche (via crackedbones)
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“Aun Au Khu Mes Tahamu Khemu, Mesu Ntrrr Mut Tef Maatu, Apuat Khu Apuat, Smet Apu...”
– Amen Khum Ra
Translation: We the brightest light, born from the deepest black, children of the Divine Mother Father, true right and exact, open the way shining ones, open the way, listen to these Divine words I say. I am the infinite blackness, the infinite brightness, the All Awareness, forever...
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Sin Verguenza: 10 Ways to love the people in your... →
eatcakey:
These are some of my guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask…
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“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you...”
– Malcolm X (via zeitgeistmovement)
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“As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado,
The confession I made I resume...”
– Walt Whitman, As I Lay My Head In Your Lap, Camerado
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“We should rise up and praise when we talk about what friendship is and love is...”
– Matthew Fox (via onceuponapoet)
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themindofphife:
“She elegant, pretty eyes, glasses, intelligent Whispered in my ear that she’s celibate Whispered back to her ear we don’t have to go there As I grab the hand set her politely in the chair As we stopped to stare at one another Black sister, the brother I’m thinkin all the time how she could be my lover”
taking my time.
themindofphife:
These days I
Get excited
When the rain comes
I wait like a
Child in anticipation
For the first
Drop to come
And replenish
The earth
A cleansing
Of sorts
I’m learning love
In all keys
So when the time
Comes I can
Sing to you
With my soul
In every color
I can imagine.
The simplest of
Things I have learned
These days
Is to be still
And to appreciate
What you have
When you have it
I’m...
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“do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...”
– anais nin. (henry and june)
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“And yet does it not all come again to the fact that it is a man’s world? For if...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via redwagon)
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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love...”
– Maya Angelou (via afrosandpeeptoes)
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“Beauty is not always as perfect as we imagine it to be but it can be damn close...”
– Nick Miller (via binette)
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“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his...”
– Bob Marley (via yahmonbobmarley) 