February 2012
“If you wish for light,
be ready to receive light.”
– Rumi (via shaktilover)
“Everything you ever love will reject you or die.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via osram-akoma)
“Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.”
– Mary McLeod Bethune (via unapproachableblackchicks)
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was...”
– Toni Morrison (via beautifulescapist)
theblacknationalist asked: Hi there, about your friend in Philly...how do they claim the land? I am trying to figure out how to claim the unused land with no issues.
“All that you touch you can change.
All that you change changes you.
The only...”
– Octavia E. Butler
The sadness of superficialities
superdefstar:
It is sometimes deeply depressing
to be a rebel
knowing that we can never share
most people’s way of life,
Nor can they share ours
-Lao Tzu
Deep like blue Black.
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a...”
– Audre Lorde (via ourspaceislove)
“تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
– Arabic proverb (via osram-akoma)
“isma garab marno, hadaan is garab marno isma garan wayno”
– May we never walk past each other. And if that so happens, may we still remember. (Somali proverb) (via eyesofadiaspora)
“Xaqq hadii afka lagu duugo, feeruhuu ka dilaacaa.”
– If you close the mouth of justice, it will explode from the chest. (via zuleikha)
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be far sighted enough to...”
– Rumi (via ambreenn)
“All white women in this nation know that their status is different from that of...”
– bell hooks (via babyboygreen)
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy...”
– The Picture Of Dorian Gray/ Oscar Wilde (via perceptionofexistence)
Oshun.
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I...”
–
Anais Nin(via thisplacearcadia)
Life lessons
Surrender to the break down.
Baptize in your own tears.
Push yourself into a black hole.
Free fall to your fate.
Crack into beautiful pieces.
Make seeds of the remains.
Scream first breaths after being reborn.
“She kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun.”
– Saul Williams (via myshoesuntied)
“If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I...”
– Malcolm X
“Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The universe is...”
– Orin (via wolfmama)
you make me laugh
delatiierra:
the way you borrow my sugar
and give salt back
“چه گرميم چه گرميم از اين عشق چو خورشيد
How warm are we from this love, like the...”
– Rumi (via wolfmama)
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
“i wanted to write a poem that rhymes, but the revolution doesn’t lend itself to...”
– nikki giovanni (via negrosunshine)
“Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love.
If you are too careful, Love will not...”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I...”
– Walt Whitman (via beethovenlivesupstairs)
“Gay issues are also women’s issues because homophobia is a form of misogyny”
– Jennifer Beals (via lwordobsession)
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho (via hip-)
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning (via loveyourchaos)
Midnight Snack
Craving her
is fiend resting on tastebuds
balancing on the tip of anticipation
a restlessness in the edge of fingertips.
A swell in pout.
رَّبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا
pearlsofislam:
“My Lord, increase me in knowledge.”
(Surah Taha, 20:114)
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and...”
– Rumi (via ikilledjackjohnson)
“ there will not be a revolution without love poems.”
– Sonia Sanchez (via angiewrites)
“Come on, get yourself wings, come on, become a bird.”
– Maori / Polinsky (2001) (via synex) (via theorangestmoon)
undevelopedsoul:
“Let her be born, & handled warmly.”
Change & Leave.
chucklew:
Hurrah i awake from yesterday Alive but the war is here to stay So my love caterina and me Decide to take our last walk Through the noise to the sea Not to die but to be re-born Away from a life so battered and torn….
Jimi Hendrix, 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be.)
“…I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between...”
– Pablo Neruda - XVII (I do not love you…)