AMOR SUSTINET VITA

IF THERE'S ANY TRUTH TO THE EXPRESSION THAT "BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER", THEN I LIVE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE...FILLED WITH BEAUTY AND FUELLED BY LOVE....Amor mío, Tú eres mi corazón

[wonkeaux]

This came across my fb feed just now, tried to find it here but failed so I post.

[electric57821]

[blairindie]

Lord of all that is good and holy...damn

[blackchildrensbooksandauthors]

August 2018 New Releases - Coming Soon!

Books:

Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? - Sherri L. Smith

August 7th | Penguin Workshop | 8 and up | 112 Pgs

Finding Yvonne - Brandy Colbert

August 7th | Little, Brown BYR | 12 and up | 288 Pgs

Temper - Nicky Drayden

August 7th | Harper Voyager | 12 and up | 400 Pgs

Finding Langston - Lesa Cline-Ransome

August 14th | Holiday House | 8 and up | 112 Pgs

So Done - Paula Chase

August 14th | Greenwillow Books | 8 and up | 304 Pgs

Fresh Ink: An Anthology - Lamar Giles

August 14th | Crown BYR | 12 and up | PK and up | 208 Pgs

Run - John Lewis  

August 14th | Abrams ComicArts | 12 and up | 160 Pgs

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - James Baldwin  

August 24th | Duke University Press | 8 and up | 120 Pgs

The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson

August 28th | Nancy Paulsen Books | 5 and up | 32 Pgs

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 - Alice Faye Duncan

August 28th | Calkins Creek | 9 and up | 40 Pgs 

Harbor Me - Jacqueline Woodson

August 28th | Nancy Paulsen Books | 10 and up | 192 Pgs

Mirage - Somaiya Daud

August 28th | Flatiron Books | 12 and up | 320 Pgs

Find more children’s and young adult books by Black authors here 

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[foyernormanchapel]

We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope Will you be electric sheep? Electric ladies, will you sleep? Or will you preach?

[blairindie]

Every single time I hear this rap,I feel so spoken to.

[liquidfem]

[boostergold78]

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

[lordxeras]

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

[blairindie]

Quick question...what in the actual fuck america??!

[blairindie]

All this fake rage from folks who know they voted for Trump is actually nauseating 

[deliciouslydemure-deactivated20]

Duckie Thot x METALMORHPHOSIS - Pat McGrath [x]

[tomfordvelvetorchid-deactivated]

[blairindie]

Accurate af

[latenitelevision]

Eartha. 1959.

[blairindie]

Beauty, grace,poise, whatever the hell else she wanted. Eartha The Queen Kitt

[hueyfreemanonlyspeaksthetruth]

[blairindie]

Listen...

[califaunawrld]

Reblog this if you're a intellectual dope ass black person that ain't about no drama cause I need more of yall in my life.

[imkiwhereslevi]

✨

[thedarkshadesca]

Queen | Badu

[theprettyfeminist]

The fact is, Rihanna doesn’t get dubbed as a feminist icon for the very same reasons her white peers do: the black female body is deemed as overtly sexual. So much so Miley Cyrus can derive a sexual identity just by associating with Blackness and Lily Allen can make a critique of hyper sexuality on our backs. Rihanna being Black and female must work from proving she isn’t just a sex object. Miley gets to be naked and feminist because it is presumed that she is “innocent” and that enjoying sex—for White women like her—isn’t the norm, but a revolutionary act. This was the justification for the rape of Black women, the very reason Saartjie Baartman’s genitals were carved from her body, to prove our inherently sexual nature and to prove the White woman’s asexual (and therefore, pure) one. When pop stars are declared to be shining examples of feminism while continuing a legacy of shaming and sexualizing black bodies, mainstream feminism is sending a clear message: we still ain’t women.

Lesli-Ann Lewis, “Why We Can’t Have Black Feminist Pop Icons” (via theprettyfeminist)

This is honestly all I've been trying to say but the people who refute the truth and validity of these concerns and how feminism still isn't intersectional are the people mentioned above innit? Yeah

[jordynslefteyebrow]

Simone Biles just made history by being the first female gymnast EVER to win 3 consecutive World All Around Titles.

insp

[kingrudegyalchina]

So we not gonna talk about her ?!!!!!!

#blackexcellence #supportblackgirlsandwomen #blackgirltakeover #werunit

[bollywoodmastani]

[the-modernblackgirl]

Damn

[purpbanga]

Where is this from?!?!

[coryaintshit]

Yo these indian movies be spitting facts from what I’m seeing..or is it the same one 👀

[ladybrun-deactivated20140111]

[muzahmat]

Zohra Sehgal, a South Asian actress par excellence, actually spoke multiple languages including Urdu, Hindi, English and German. She is one of the earliest international actresses who came from an aristocratic Muslim family in India. When her father insisted that she get married, she outright said, ‘I don’t want to get married,’  and announced that she might become a pilot. In 1917 she went to a boarding school in Lahore, after which, in 1930, she donned a burqa and set off for Europe by road — crossing Iran, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. She trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Zohra was quite blunt when it came to expressing her opinions. She was an agnostic and defied all the stereotypes about a “Muslim girl from a traditional family”. She was unbelievably bold and confident and was known for her mischievous humor. She earned immense respect in British TV at a time when people were not accepting of ‘diversity’ and even the Asian roles were played by white people. When she had first arrived in Britain, “it was such that if we were sitting in the bus, the British did not sit next to us. Unconsciously in the minds of white people, there was a hesitation”. She defied cultural norms once more when she married her Hindu student eight years younger than her. She never felt welcomed in Lahore, so she left half her family in Pakistan after 1947 Partition and settled in Delhi where she taught a theater group. She raised her children on her own when her husband committed suicide at a young age. She was literally unstoppable and appeared consistently in British TV series like The Jewel in Crown, Mind Your Language and Doctor Who. She has acted in myriad Bollywood films and performed across Japan, Egypt, Europe and the US. She was a classical dancer, choreographer, cinema, theater and television actress whose career spanned over 8 decades. She was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan, some of the highest civilian honors in India. She was a fighter all her life, she even defeated cancer. On her 100th birthday she said, “I want an electric cremation. I don’t want any poems and fuss after that. And for heaven’s sake don’t bring back the ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh". Zohra aapa lived the life of a grand diva and passed away in 2014 at the age of 102.

“Oh, my burqa was of lovely silk and I was so glad I made petticoats out of it!”

Zohra with her husband Kameshwar Sehgal in 1945.

“What actually makes brings out your beauty is the radiance of being content and you can only be content when you are employed in something you love.”

“You see me now when I am old and ugly, in fact you should have seen me earlier — when I was young and ugly!”

Zohra at her 100th birthday was quietly humming “Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon” (I am still young) by poet Hafeez Jullundhri, as she attacked the huge cake.

“Life’s been tough but I’ve been tougher. I beat life at its own game”

[godfearingwomanist]

She was in one of my favorite Bollywood movies, had no idea how bad ass this woman was…whoa!

[blairindie]

Quuen