To The Moon

The moons glow brings me ease in the darkest hour Hollow or consumed its whisper washes me up there in its tower The dark preludes but still the moons glow brings me ease in the darkest hour s.h ~~~~~~ ⊙⊙⊙

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 25, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[macrolit]

We’re choosing a random winner tomorrow, so reblog now! 

[mrlifeisrich]

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

-Langston Hughes 

[peacebeuponu]

[apoemaday]

Tired

by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind.

[macrolit]

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W.E.B. Du Bois (b. 23 February 1868)

[sendommager]

Two girls, New York, 1969 photographed by Nico van der Stam

[autobibliographies]

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Rabbi Tarfon (via autobibliographies)

[welcometoyouredoom]

Free Black History Library

[green-roads]

I watch this movie at least twice a year~~~

[green-roads]

I’ve met one of these ladies and I’m reading the other ones book right now~~~

[green-roads]

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

I really need to re-read this, it was hard to believe how young she was when she was writing her diary~~~

[vintagesomalia]

Endless summers 

#vintagesomalia #thepeopleshistory

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

[mossgirl]

Hiroji Kubota, Manhattan, 1989.

[sunbathe]

https://www.instagram.com/p/-FrVINN4XD/

[aestheticsontrial]

Harlem, 1983. 

Taken by Thomas Hoepker

[graceandgirlhood]

Lita Bosch