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[cosmicanger]

Donna Summer, 1976, ph. Fin Costello

[petaltexturedskies]

at my age, my heart seems more than ever like a sunflower, always turning toward the light and warmth for more strength and force of character, for more beauty and wisdom.

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written circa February 1920 from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914–20

[la-muse-noire]

Just a Visit, Jammie Holmes, 2022

[stuckinapril]

Current priorities: research, reading, sun, sea

[julytrees]

Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film (1992)

[originalvoyage]

big fan of everything calm and different

[julytrees]

Tina Turner captured dancing in the garden of her fomer villa ‘Anna Fleur’ within the South of France, ca. 2000.

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[ladynadeen]

[pollen]

you should really get comfortable believing in love and magic and whimsy or you’ll continue to live a half-life for the rest of the time you have on earth

[cosmicanger]

Suzanne Jackson in her studio, 1968

[sensualites]

Committed to having my way with life.

[deirdre-ziare]

Rare photos of Lisa in Honduras.

[plum-japonais]

I feel so many things growing – my individuality, my confidence; I feel lines of my character growing stronger. I’m really sprouting, springing up, with mixed feelings of tenderness and bitterness, faith and disillusion, hardness and softness. I have never felt so clearly that my self is – obscurely and stubbornly – self-made.

– Anaïs Nin, Linotte

[achillesinhighheels]

Lenny Kravitz and Adriana Lima for VIBE Magazine (2001)

[academic-vampire]

I am so thankful that books & reading exist