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Bastard of A Full Moon
My name is Jorge. I poem. Life has hardened me but I trust myself, still, to be human. Harlem is home.
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.
bell hooks (via thepoetandthesiren)
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Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
Henry Miller (via mycolorbook)
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Yo honey dip, summertime fine, jewelry dripping
Seen you on Pickens with a bunch of chickens how you’re clicking
I kept shooting strong notes as we got close
She rocked rope, honey throat smelling like Impulse
Your whole shell baby’s wicked like Nimrod
Caught me like a fresh-water scrod, or may I not be God
Attitude is very rude boo, crabby like seafood
It turns me on like Vine’s Cee Allah Rule
They call me Starky Love hon, check the strategy
By any means, Shirley Temple curls was done by Billie Jeans
Black Mrs. America, your name is Erica, right true
Lazy eyeball, small feet, six shoe
Caramel complexion, breath smelling like cinnamon
Excuse me hon, the Don mean no harm, turn around again
God damn, backyard’s banging like a Benzi
If I was jiggy, you’d be spotted like Spuds McKenzie
I’m high-powered put Adina Howard to sleep
Yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week
Back to you Maybeline Queen let’s make a team
You can have anything in this world except C.R.E.A.M
So what you wanna do, what you wanna do
Let’s go ahead and walk these dogs and represent Wu
Poetry
The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who don’t truly submit to God.
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Reminders For All
- Racism against white people doesn’t exist
- Sexism against men doesn’t exist
- Oppression of cis people doesn’t exist
- Oppression of thin people doesn’t exist
- Oppression of able people doesn’t exist
- Oppression of straight people doesn’t exist
- Oppression of rich people doesn’t exist
- Specieism doesn’t exist
- The ‘War on Christianity’ doesn’t exist
- No white ppl, you can’t wear that war bonnet
- People are allowed to be angry and react to abuse violently
- People are allowed to have safe spaces, and when someone infringes upon that space, they are harassing you
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porcelain. ivory. steel.: alltheladiesyouhate: What it is like to live with an anxiety…
What it is like to live with an anxiety disorder
1.
no one ever congratulates you
for doing the really difficult things
like driving on the freeway or getting out of bed or
staying alive
2.
every friendship you make is a countdown
to the moment
when they finally can’t deal
with the missed calls and canceled hangouts
every friendship is on a timer
every friendship expires sooner,
not later
3.
you hear phrases like “bootstraps”
over and over
until you wish you had some to hang
yourself with
4.
you have to learn to simultaneously
relax your muscles
and move them with determination
you have to be in control
and you have to let go
at the same time
it’s enough to drive you into
a blubbering mess
5.
music is a conduit
crying is a conduit
your dad calling is a conduit
everything becomes a conduit
for either having or not having another panic attack
6.
you learn to stop making plans
because you’ll either disappoint yourself
or someone you care about or both
7.
you accept all of it
8.
you hope someday everyone else can
accept it tooyep
For all the artists out there. xoxo
I agree with Natasha! Make stuff even if it HURTS! <3
Things I should remember
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Willow Smith is fabulous.
if i ever choose to have kids, may my daughter be so necessarily fly. p.s. still waiting on someone in the universe to gift me this t-shirt.
Role Model.
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Sports must be important. A coach is the highest paid public employee in 40 out of 50 states. Thanks for the statographic Deadspin.
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14Because when a man tells a Black woman that she looks mixed as a form of endearment, he’s insinuating that her beauty comes from the (allegedly) non-Black part of her. All they’re effectively saying is: You’re too beautiful to just be Black. Oh, but I am. I’m beautiful just like my beautiful Black mother, just like her mother and her mother’s mother. We’re generations of women born right here in the US of A, from North Carolina to Massachusetts by way of the motherland. Brown skin, nappy hair, cornbread and gravy gorgeous. We aren’t beautiful in spite of our Blackness, we are beautiful because of it. So don’t dare try to give the credit to anything else.
Shayla Pierce, Why Saying I Look “Mixed” Isn’t A Compliment (via theraceproblem)
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The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who don’t truly submit to God.
Khalid Latif (via thepoetandthesiren)
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If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures
Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.
Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men – and each other – for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Sterling have come to America.
As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders – can peace ever come to this land?
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