Casual Dreaming

[thequotejournals]

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via thequotejournals)

yasqueen

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[odinsblog]

Dehumanizing stereotypes have existed in American culture from the very beginning. Centuries later, and racism remains the default justification for discrimination and brutality.

[securelyinsecure]

Teyonah Parris

“It feels good to be a role model for little girls who don’t often see natural hair on the red carpet. I’ve wanted to be an actress my whole life and the none of the women I aspired to be like had natural hair. Today we have Esperanza Spalding and Solange who always look fierce and are proud to wear their natural hair. Maybe it’s not a statement for them, but for me, they showed me that I don’t have to equate fierce and gorgeous with long, straight hair. I hope there’s a little girl out there who may see me and say the same thing.”

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[steviemcfly]

My favorite is that story every white person has that’s like, “My friend didn’t get into her dream school because they took a black guy with a lower GPA instead.” As though they were in the admissions office and heard the admissions officers going, “Well, there’s one spot left, and we have to choose between this brilliant white girl or this black idiot. I guess we’ll choose the black guy, because Affirmative Action means we have to!” They don’t know their friend’s exact GPA or that of the person who “got in instead,” or if they applied to the same program, or if one had a lower GPA but better test scores or extracurriculars or volunteer hours or personal statement, or if the other was a legacy. All they know is, “My white friend got rejected, but there are black people at the school,” and they see their white friends as being inherently smarter and more worthy of an education, so they assume automatically that the black people there are unqualified and were unfairly accepted.

[asiafrombrooklyn]

This is bomb

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Life hacks/Tips Here 

[casualdreaming]

yes.

[phoenix-ace]

If your first reaction to seeing a grown man brutalize a teenage girl is: “Well she MIGHT have raised her voice/made a sudden movement/been rude/etc.” you have a problem and pretending its because you want to “wait for the facts” is just plain dishonest.  You didn’t see any of that, but your already inventing a scenario that fits your bias.  Somehow a “what if” scenario made up by a random person trumps what you see on video. 

I don’t like how people project their racialized misogyny onto young black girls and automatically assume we have it coming from the get go.  And I hate how they treat us like we’re inherently dishonest and need to “wait” for proof because our word isn’t enough.  How do you justify hating someone that much that you see that level of violence and say “Yeah I need to defend that.”  Why, because you would do it too if you had a badge and could get away with it?  Because you wish that you could put us in our “place” just like that?  You feel “safer” now?    

I also hate how people keep just circulating the gifs and the videos like that.

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Girls shouldn’t have their arms broken AT SCHOOL, BY THE POLICE OFFICERS, FOR DOING NOTHING

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[purplebuddhaproject]

If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.

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[kushandwizdom]

When you tell someone that they hurt you and they turn it around on you and have you second guessing your feelings and almost on the brink of apologising. Please acknowledge that you are being manipulated and run in the opposite direction as fast as fuck.

MR (via kushandwizdom)

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Alex Elle