January 2012
1 post
“As a white person, I always saw the terms honky or cracker as proof of how much...”
– tim wise
November 2011
0 posts
“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via quote-book)
September 2011
6 posts
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“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via impaledsilence)
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August 2011
2 posts
i had someone tell me i fell off
oooo i needed that…
• grindin’ •
July 2011
2 posts
Running=Therapy...
deepchocolate:
I feel oh so alive!
June 2011
11 posts
“Oh, dare to do it, Buddy! Trust your heart.”
– J.D. Salinger (via oscarprgirl)
Ayao Marley: Being a product.... →
deepchocolate:
of African parents but being born in the US is a blessing and a curse.
My parents will never understand how hypocritical and self-contridictory they are.
I’m not dumb and both think I am when it comes to their parent skills.
Not to mention I say whatever is on my mind when it comes to their…
THIS.
Watch
“This… stuff’? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go...”
– from the devil wears prada
“i am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as i...”
– george bernard shaw
i'm a star
Someone give me a chance And just watch me break through, I deserve to be seen, This dream feels way overdue. I was born to perform More than anyone knows. I have passion and guts, I want this and it shows. I have fought, I have cried. I’ve been broke, I’ve been bruised. Yet at the end of the day This life is what I still choose. I am song, I am dance, All I need is a break. This is...
May 2011
2 posts
hiking in colorado
me: ....it doesn't look like we're going downhill...
her: that's because your perception and judgement is horrible
me: ....but this isn't where we started...
her: well you don't end where you start, hon
me: [sarcastically] oh, how sweet; it's a metaphor
her: EXACTLY! "life is a journey, not a destination"! move those feet, sister!
April 2011
4 posts
“you can have so much religion that you lose God.”
– think about it…
March 2011
4 posts
thoughts of a 5th grade selma, al native
her: that's the kind of hair i want; like her hair.
me: the lady with the ponytail?
her: yeah. see how it's long and everything in the back? like that. but you know it's fake.
me: ....why?
her: cause it's long.
me: ........so black women can't have long hair?
her. nope.
me: have you seen my hair?
her: [matter of fact] well you're not from here.
me: oh, right.
February 2011
2 posts
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage...”
– James Baldwin (via tabularasae)
damn, this makes me feel a lot less alone. cause i seriously feel angry so much of the time now.
January 2011
23 posts
“How did Martin Luther King speak? How did Malcom X speak? How does Maya Angelou...”
– my friend Rochelle on the subject of “talking like a white girl” (via chescaleigh)
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules,...”
– Banksy (via oceanofmind)
my dash has the most nsfw pics
public viewing is mos def ill advised.
no bueno.
come on up to the house: lowendtheory: “I still... →
lowendtheory:
“I still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great problem of this century. But today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many…
