Kadon. Kadie. Kay.

Film Industry Nerd. Storyteller. Caribbean Gyal. Reader of Books. Momma. Film/TV/Digital Producer. Renaissance Woman. Twitter: @kadietweets | LinkedIn: Kadon Douglas | Instagram: instakadie

[quotemadness]

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer (via quotemadness)

[trinbagoculture]

Dis is d kingdom. Soca 2018. Trinidad and Tobago.

[drama-gouine]

WHINE AND FLING IT UP!!!!! Woooiiiiiiiee 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨✨

[kadonkadiekay]

A hymn for the ages

[funkidrops]

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

this is the kind of wholesome content this website desperately needs

[universal-equivalent-blog]

Short documentary on Claudia Jones, one of the foremost Black women in the CPUSA in the 1940s and creator of Notting Hill Carnival.

[thequotejournals]

Often children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned a particular survival strategy. I call it ‘strategic detachment.’ This is not the withdrawal from reality that leads to psychological disturbance, but an intuitively calibrated disengagement from noxious aspects of their family life or other aspects of their world. They some how know, This is not all there is. They hold the belief that a better alternative exists somewhere and that someday they will find their way to it. They persevere in that idea. They somehow know Mother is not all women, Father is not all men, this family does not exhaust the possibilities of human relationships-there is life beyond this neighborhood. This does not spare them suffering in the present, but it allows them not to be destroyed by it. Their strategic detachment does not guarantee that they will never know feelings of powerlessness, but it helps them not to be stuck there.

Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self Esteem (via wordsnquotes)

[blackpantherdaily]

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

[wordsnquotes]

Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect and walk into freedom.

Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life Book (via wordsnquotes)

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Everyone signed up for this experiment to see if we could make something that was appealing to all audiences and very much speaking to an audience of black television lovers that allows us to kind of get underneath the family drama, into these issues that so often aren’t tackled in black shows because you’re always talking about being black.

Ava DuVernay on Queen Sugar

[malikthaelite]

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[thecomeup87]

I really needed this

[purpleandpearlsss]

Write it down, and watch things get real!!!

[heartcountry]

You are not the heaviness sitting inside of you. You are not the battlefield where the bodies fall, and you are not the sound of cannons breaking the sky open. You are what happens after the war. The surviving. The healing. The rebuilding.

Y.Z, For the Bad Nights  (via eclecticalexandria)

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[wnq-movies]

I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke.

Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when she isn’t trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

Margaret Atwood (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I’m walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.

Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Anaïs Nin (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.

Marc Hack (via wordsnquotes)