February 2012
16 posts
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense...”
– Charles Lamb; The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb (via wordpainting)
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“if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it....”
– “so you want to be a writer?” by Charles Bukowski
“No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger,...”
– Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)
I hate when people claim that women are crazy or complicated or don’t know what they want because fuck you. When a woman is vocal about her opinions, desires, feelings, you call her a bitch or crazy or hysterical. Women have been taught that the only way...
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via girlwithoutwings)
“Undress. Take off your clothes. Take off your body. Hang them up behind the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via helplesslyamazed)
“Remember that the word psychiatry means ‘healing the soul’, not ‘medicating the...”
– Elio Frattaroli (via psychotherapy)
“I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering...”
– Audre Lorde | The Uses of Anger
the above comes just after the below, which I also find very powerful, enabling and enriching:
… for Black women and white women to face each other’s angers without denial and immobility or silence or guilt is in itself a heretical and generative idea. It implies...
“Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
– Margaret Atwood (via monamade)
Screw poetry…
(via jonubian)
January 2012
44 posts
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“If you are afraid of your reflection
do not come my way
at times I am a mirror...”
– Keorapetse Kgositsile
This is me. a lot.
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“Either way, I don’t give a shit [laughs]! I just don’t give a shit, I’m telling...”
– Erykah Badu
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“I guess what people think about me is not my business. That’s my last concern;...”
– Erykah Badu
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
– Rumi (via nakedineurope)
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Go READ: Polyphonic Feminisms: Acting in Concert →
Beautiful collection of texts and videos with contributions by Sara Ahmed, Nuala Cabral and and and.
Very beautiful.
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“Well, I would say that I grew up inherently nationalistic. I truly believe that...”
– Talib Kweli: Appropriate or Appreciate? | JLove Calderon (via adailyriot)