January 2012
“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely...”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via subconciousevolution)
December 2011
Conversations with the Ancestors
superdefstar:
We spoke of longings/yearnings/the unknown
We spoke in the tongue of the snake
The hoot of the owl
Tongues of our ancestors
Dancing with the wind
- Ntozake Shange
“We are hung up
in giving
what we wish to be given
ourselves.”
– Audre Lorde (Making it)
“You let the man maneuver you into thinking that it’s wrong to fight him when...”
– Malcolm X (via howbigisyourworld)
“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their...”
– Rumi (via blackstarastronomy)
“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via gravityamplifica)
locksandglasses asked: Saf, Hiwot, and I went to your store without the knowledge that it's not open on tuesdays :(
“If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry,...”
– Harriet Tubman (via poeticminded)
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...”
– Carl Jung (via beautifulepitome)
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
– Rumi (via spiritd3sire)
“I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle)
Sometimes I just don't know where to stand.
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or...”
– Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)
“Black People in America have a much greater inner power than they realize, but...”
– Na’im Akbar (via cultureofresistance)
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land....”
– Desmond Tutu (via osram-akoma)
“The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really...”
– Adyashanti (via awakenedvibrations)
“I acknowledge that the source of love is within me.”
– Crown chakra affirmation (via serpentpriest)
“We have to create. It is the only thing louder than destruction.”
– Andrea Gibson (via elige)
Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for... →
cultureofresistance:
The Obama administration’s counterterrorism Qaccomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential.
In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using...
“‘Why are you sad?’
‘Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with...”
– Anna Karina, Pierrot Le Fou (via btl33v33)
“A sharp knife never proclaims it’s sharpness to the world…but the first to fall...”
– (via black-culture)
“Black lesbian relationships pose little threat to “self-defined” Black men and...”
– Patricia Hill Collins (Black Feminist Thought: Black Women’s Love Relationships, 182)
“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via girlinlondon)
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present....”
– Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist (via blogut)
woman: audre lorde
ancestryinprogress:
I dream of a place between your breasts to build my house like a haven where I plant crops in your body an endless harvest where the commonest rock is moonstone and ebony opal giving milk to all of my hungers and your night comes down upon me like a nurturing rain. (1997)
“You don’t have to believe everything you think. We’ve been programmed. Wake up,...”
– The Healer Erykah Badu (via desirouslengths)
barebrownboy asked: :) Hey. Are you in Philly?
“don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.”
– Toni Morrison (via wisdomorganic)
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have...”
– Alice Walker (via black-culture)
Dear Lakers,
You broke my heart tonight. Please don’t let this be indicative of the season.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Fan
“Greatness is the human capacity to surpass oneself, to go beyond oneself, to...”
– Osho (via elige)
Now
Woman power
is
Black power
is
Human power
is
always feeling
my heart beats
as my eyes open
as my hands move
as my mouth speaks
I am
are you
Ready.
-Audre Lorde
“I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would...”
– Langston Hughes (Quiet Girl)
" Why you frontin' on me? Is that necessary?"
“…Today both children came home from school
talking about spring and peace...”
– Audre Lorde (Equinox)
“That which is inside of me screaming
beating about for exit or entry
names the...”
– Audre Lorde (Bloodbirth)
“Hike up your skirt a little more,
and show your world to me…”
haiku
provenance:
“i think if i catch
your breath and take it inside
me you will stay.”
-sonia sanchez
“What you seek is seeking you.”
– Rumi (via mazakali)
“I forgive myself.”
– Heart chakra affirmation (via serpentpriest)
“To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave”
– Assata Shakur (via black-culture)
“When you removed the gag that was keeping these black mouths shut, what were you...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus (via cultureofresistance)