February 2012
18 posts
“Your job is not to educate others, (…) it is, first, to survive.”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology at Duke University. (via razycrandomgirl)
“I’ve never had the audacity before now to wait for a heart, but you said sleep...”
– Alysia Harris (via jchowell03)
“There’s a chest waiting for my eyes to get heavy. There is someone out there...”
– Jasmine Mans (via jchowell03)
Angela Davis
Angela Davis will be speaking at American University next week. Certainly, one of the best decisions this university has made in a while.
Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class,... →
Black is not exclusively synonymous with African American.
“Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate. ”
– Mos Def (via doddio)
Shit American University People Say →
Such an accurate depiction of this university.
“This notion may seem difficult for an American to digest, but it’s true. Only a...”
– More at The Atlantic: What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success
(via braindeadmegaphone)
“Perhaps the most important thing we have to remember about the black tradition...”
– Bryan Wagner, Disturbing the Peace (via theangryblackwoman)
I despise being lied to.
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
– Toni Morrison (via jumpstart-therevolution)
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via nezua)
“You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.”
– Congolese Proverb (via bhargette)
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor...”
– Zora Neale Hurston
January 2012
83 posts
“The idea of friendship is something that I have always battled with. When I was...”
– Jomaira Uninhibited
I cry every time I think of the daily struggles immigrants face in this country.
And to think people in their respective countries think life is easy in America.
Little do they know …
“Struggle ain’t gonna stop. ”
– Amiri Baraka
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have...”
– James Baldwin
“Idle minds are the devil’s workshop. ”
– Brick City
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”
“It’s exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has...”
– Junot Diaz
“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish...”
– Junot Diaz
“Anywhere else his triple-zero batting average with the ladies might have passed...”
– Junot Diaz
“Nothing more exhilirating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of...”
– Junot Diaz (via mylifeasawriter)
girlatlas:
Wildwood by Junot Diaz
Tribulations of Blackness: Stages in Dominican... →
Me: Am I free to assemble a protest of peaceful peers?
Government: Only with a permit.
Me: Am I free to travel?
Government: Only with a passport.
Me: Am I free to pursue my own ideas of happiness?
Government: Only within these constraints.
Me: Am I free to start a business?
Government: Only with a license.
Me: Am I free to marry who I wish?
Government: Only with my consent.
Me: Am I free?
Government: I'm legally obligated to say that you are.
Government: Stop asking so many questions.
“Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world...”
– bell hooks (via cwolonthwee)
“Don’t marry a man unless you would be proud to have a son exactly like him. ”
“They don’t know nothing about black pearls, but I will show them. ‘Why the world...”
– Andre 3000 (via allnaturalytwashedblipsterbitch)
Black and Latino →
My life. It’s either black or white.
Shit Latina Girls Say →
Das it.
Frank Reyes, Princesa
I’m scheduled for a wisdom tooth extraction tomorrow. What a tragedy.
Jay-Z, Glory
My greatest creation was you.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”
– Rumi (via inspiri)
“I don’t chase anyone anymore. If you want to walk out of my life, I’ll hold the...”
– (via istillstayclassy)
youngblackthinker:
