(Source: lezzbfriends, via indulgedinboredom)
The Black Community spends most of its time trying “to make a living” in a society labeled “for whites only”. Therefore, the central question is “How are we going to survive in a world which deems black humanity an illegitimate form of human existence?” That white America has issued a death warrant for being black is white brutality inflicted on black persons. By white definitions, whiteness is “being” and blackness is “nonbeings.” Blacks live under sentence of death. They know that whites will kill them rather than permit the beauty and glory of black humanity to be manifested in its fullness. To breathe in white society is dependent on saying yes to whiteness, and blacks know it. Black survival is at stake here, and we blacks must define and assert the conditions necessary for our being-in-the-world.
(via eyeofsoul)
Japanese Wisteria Tunnel
These photos were taken at the Kawachi Fuji Garden, about a four hour drive from Tokyo, but there are wisteria festivals all over Japan, including at the Kameido-Tenjin Shrine, where tourists in the Edo period often visited the famous wisteria; the Wake Wisteria Park, in Wake-cho, Okayama, and at Ashikaga Flower Park, which has three massive wisteria trellises that extend 3,280 feet squared. (Time Out Tokyo has a list of additional notable wisteria around the city worth visiting.)
I want to get married here…
(via ethiopienne)
I wonder how many people, male and female, actually stop to think before they bring a child into the world:
“Do I really want to do this? What am I getting myself into? WHY do I want to bring a child into the world? Do I have valid reasons? Am I really clear on how difficult this work will be? Can I actually commit to this? Can I afford it? Can I give this child a better, more balanced life than the one I had? Is the person I’m asking to help me with this actually worthy enough to do this with? Am I going to do this child more harm than good? Is the desire to have this child coming from pure ego? Am I going to treat this child like an object to be ogled over like a new toy or am I going love it like an actual human being? Am I doing this just because everyone else is doing it? Am I doing it because I feel like I’m expected to do it? Am I doing it for the attention? Am I doing this out of tradition or habit? Am I doing it simply because it’s a byproduct of some types of sexual intercourse? Can I actually love this child and do little to no harm? Can I raise it to be humane and not oppressive?”
I imagine the world would be a better place if more people did.
Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
These questions are useless and the judgement here is nasty. You don’t get to dictate that the world would be a better place if people thought of these things. I know kids who were not planned and their parents love them and take care of them (better) than my parents (I was planned). Some people really aren’t good parents, yes, but I don’t think it has to do with lack of planning.
(via beandbenotafraid)
That you read what I wrote and got the WORST possible meaning out of it is a reflection of YOUR defects, not mine.
(via sonofbaldwin)
That would mean analysis is only valid if it affirms the focus of its inquiry— that would mean critical theory is invalid by nature of being… critical. and that’s a pretty weak argument, right?
(via theblackballedlife)
Thank you. I often wonder this
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(Source: quantumreverie, via halgian)
It matters not. All that matters is that you keep your relationship with yourself clear and honest. From that place, all things are possible. From that place, mountains will move. From that place, your life will become a living achievement!
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(Source: chappy-lips, via tsunderbolt)
Some ask “Why can’t you people just all be Hispanic?” Same reason that all white people can’t just be called English. Just because you speak English or Spanish does not mean that you are one group. Hispanic is a census term that some dildo in a government office made up to include all Spanish-speaking brown people. It is especially annoying to Chicanos because it is a catch-all term that includes the Spanish conqueror. By definition, it favors European cultural invasion, not indigenous roots. It also includes all Latino groups, which brings us together because Hispanic annoys all Latino groups.
(via ethiopienne)
(Source: did-yuo-kno, via tsunderbolt)
