free the oppressed

Falasteen • Mèxico • California

[nevver]

For whom the bell tolls (because)

[kazuo-hino]

Los Angeles

[lanndscape]

[africansouljah]

Martin Parr Brazil. Rio de Janeiro. Copacabana Beach. 1996.

[free-my-mindd]

[live-pono]

Taharuu beach, Tahiti

[chicanobrother-deactivated20170]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[vintage-tigre]

“But maybe that’s the point…”

[luthienne]

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)

[srcee]

missing something i never had

[bashaeralquds85-deactivated2020]

[rasmalai]

“Sometimes I feel I can’t go on like this forever. Days pass and nothing happens, and I feel so alone in my heart.”

— Tokyo Story (1953), Dir. Yasujirô Ozu (via turktaculairr)

[antisisyphus]

“You have survived so much that no one remembers. And you still spread warm rain on all your overgrown lots. And you still get dressed in the morning. You still open wide for the sun.”

— When the Ghosts Come Ashore: Things I Should Say to Myself in the Mirror or Things I Would Say to the City of St. Louis if it Could Hear Me by Jacqui Germain (via decreation)

[blossomfully]

“Describe numbness,” he says. He sits opposite me with his legs crossed. His broad hands enclose mine. “Well it’s like standing on the edge of a cliff and not feeling afraid,” I tell him. I can’t stand the look he’s giving me so I divert my eyes. “It’s like knowing you should feel something but not being able to.”

Sue Zhao (via blossomfully)

[estrangera]

It’s easy to say “fuck cultural identities, we’re all human” when your culture is not the one being exploited, marginalized and oppressed. It’s easy to say “fuck borders” when your country is the one who puts up the borders. And it is really fucking easy to say “we all bleed red” when it’s not bodies of your people riddled with bullets because Western capitalism has a price. 

[victoriajoan]

I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.

Tennessee Williams, from The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via victoriajoan)