March 2012
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“As a black person, if someone kills you, you better had been a perfect student,...”
– How To Be A Victim… (via harriettumbles)
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Light to dark, and everything in-between: Black... →
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Every Black woman in america has survived several lifetimes of hatred, where even in the candy store cases of our childhood, little brown niggerbaby candies testified against us. We survived the wind-driven spittle on our child’s shoe and pink flesh-colored bandaids, attempted rapes on rooftops…
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Shots to the head: cause of death for 2 Hamtramck... →
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On Feb. 8th, Brandon Cain, 26, shot Ashley Conaway, 22, because Conaway told Cain that she no longer wanted to be romantically involved with him. Conaway’s head was grazed by the bullet and she survived. Cain offered money to Conaway and Conaway’s best friend, Abreeya Brown, 18 (a witness to the shooting) to NOT TESTIFY in court about the shooting. They refused the...
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People on the Internet Can Be Hella Racist →
Issa Rae won an award for her web series, Awkward Black Girl, and then the racists tweets came out of the woodwork.
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America: Tailormade to Destroy Black People →
“We cage people, then call them animals. We starve people, then jibe them for being malnourished. We write laws that allow people to gun down unarmed children.”
- Kai Wright
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“In a nation with the racial history of the United States I am baffled by the...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry, The Epistemology of Race Talk (via mswyrr)
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“Set your life on fire.
Seek those who
fan your flames.”
– Rumi (via nezua)
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“Traditionally, in American society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race and Sex: Women Redefining (via thebrownggrrlzproject)
“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
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Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
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“People of color, women, and gays—who now have greater access to the centers of...”
– Teju Cole, The Atlantic (via draupadi)
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“I’m not so much an angry black woman as a livid one. I live in a state of...”
– Hannah Pool on ‘angry black woman’ label (via pengaling)
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
– Thich Nhat Hahn (via wordslessspoken)
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“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
Like or reblog if a White person has mistaken you...
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“I have been raped
because I have been wrong the wrong sex the wrong age ...”
– Poem About My Rights, June Jordan (via ancestryinprogress)
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“A queen loses her crown when she loses her virginity. And a queen becomes the bitch when she likes it.”
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“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via heartmindspirit)
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