Life is beautiful because I'm still learning

I'm just a simple girl. I love all things artful and intelligent. I have fun, take from that what you will. Music rules my life and dictates my mood.

[whiskeysandwords]

[lora-mathis]

Lora Mathis (2017)

[niconiconiko]

never stop being a good person because of bad people

[hopeoverexperience2]

[mysharona1987]

[glamour]

Solange for Glamour Magazine. 

[hopeoverexperience2]

My werewolf ❤️

[jaspertilley]

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

I want a divided America.

We should want to be divided from these people. Trump’s supporters spout violent, hateful rhetoric, then turn around and decry their critics’ “divisiveness” and racially specific language, like the inexplicably still-controversial “Black Lives Matter” — a term that has sparked an uproar among conservatives and repeated retorts that “All Lives Matter.”

They say they want unity. But people who want unity work for it. They listen. They compromise. They show empathy for those who are suffering. What they want is to not be bothered with disunity. They want us to suffer in silence, for us to indulge their bigotry and to live in a world where their prejudices can thrive unchallenged.

There are costs to ostracizing such people, of course. Trump supporters make up a huge segment of the U.S. population. They are many of our parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and siblings — and for politicians, they’re a large voting bloc who can’t be easily ignored. As a result, we are conditioned to want to make nice with them, and to aim for a political discourse where we can coexist without enmity.

But the reality is this: If our goal is to be a just and equitable United States of America, we need to stop negotiating with bigots. It’s as simple as that.

 Progressives have spent tons of energy this election trying to humanize and understand Trump supporters. The conservative white, working-class who constitute a large portion of Trump’s base are frustrated and disaffected by economic devastation, inequality and the decline in work opportunities. These are legitimate grievances. Rather than address them, the GOP has for decades sought to politicize their anger by appealing to racism, turning it against black “welfare queens” and “illegal aliens” who they claim are stealing jobs, committing crimes and mooching off the system.

This behavior is incompatible with an equitable American future. [KEEP READING] — Zak Cheney-Rice (Op-ed)

[micdotcom]

just take five minutes to read this whole op-ed article if you can

[lazyangels-network]

[cybrputa]

if your absence doesn’t affect them, your presence never mattered

[nya-kin]

when will i ever experience this?

[hopeoverexperience2]

[hopeoverexperience2]

Do you know how someone can make you giddy with just their presence?

My best friend of over 10 years, How do I say? My best friend of 10 years, you make me the happiest. But it is not you I want, in the way one would expect after this long, My best friend. I love you. I am in love with you, forever. I wish life was as easy as that.

[iremade333-deactivated20150328]

do u consider me a friend too or am i annoying: the movie

[hopeoverexperience2]

Update: Got it.

[hopeoverexperience2]

I need a topo