tika

nyc

[hirxeth]

Léon the professional (1994) dir. Luc Besson

[lizramos]

To Poughkeepsie

Girls. Season 2, Episode 7.

[dearly]

The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020) Giuseppe Capotondi

[moma]

[afirahs]

[gaptoothbitch]

OSMAN SS 2014

[elvawrites]

Because the Dawn Breaks by Merle Collins (Grenada)

We speak

because

when the rain falls

in the mountains

the river slowly swells

.

Comes rushing down

over boulders

across roads

crumbling bridges

that would hold their power

against its force

.

We speak for the same reason

that 

the thunder frightens the child

that

the lightening startles the tree

.

We do not speak

to defy your tenets

though we do

or upset your plans

even though we do

or to tumble

your towers of babel

we speak in spite of the fact

that we do

.

We speak

because

your plan

is not our plan

our plan

we speak because we dream

because our dreams

are not of living in pig pens

in any other body’s

backyard

not of

catching crumbs from tables

not of crawling forever

along the everlasting ant-line

to veer away in quick detour

when the elephant’s foot

crashes down

not of having to turn back when the smell of death assails our senses

not of striving forever

to catch the image of your Gods

within our creation

.

We speak

for the same reason

that

the flowers bloom

that the sun sets

that the fruit ripens

.

because temples built

to honour myths

must crumble

there is nothing you can do

about your feeble bridges

when the rain falls

in the mountains

and swells the flow of rivers

.

We speak

not to agitate you

but in spite of your agitation

because

we are workers

peasants

leaders

you see

and were not born

to be your vassals.

[aseaofquotes]

Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie

[quotespile]

Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.

Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (via quotespile)

[thegoodvybe]

[f00dcourt]

The Weeknd - In Your Eyes (dir. Anton Tammi) (2020)

[downtownjudybrown]

[52booknotes]

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Gone Girl.

[stevienick]

Sharp Objects (2018)

[fannylikes]

[aseaofquotes]

Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie

[womackave]

You never listened to the words I spoke, only drank in my lips, my body. When I left it wasn’t what I whispered that woke you in the night, but the ghost of what it felt like to have me beside you, and you wished you’d listened more because the absence ate you alive.

like a ghost over me