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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Audre Lorde, from A Burst of Light: Essays; “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[coocoolah-deactivated20190601]

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light (via coocoolah)

[queerbetweenthelines-blog]

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!

Audre Lorde, excerpt from a journal entry collected in A Burst of Light (via queerbetweenthelines-blog)

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[texnessa]

Currently reading and this is fascinating.

[psdlands]

Okja (2017) dir. Bong Joon Ho

[bradpittstain]

“Excuse me. I’m here for Okja.”

Okja (2016) dir. Bong Joon Ho

[lilbouvier]

The bike experience

[lilbouvier]

"Stories are just things we fabricate, nothing more. We search for them in a world besides our own, then leave them here to be found, garments shed by ghosts." - The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen

[sheisrecovering]

People say all the time, ‘Well, I don’t understand how people could have tolerated slavery?’ 'How could they have made peace with that?’ 'How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that?’ 'That’s so crazy, if I was living in that time I would never have tolerated anything like that.’ And the truth is we are living in this time, and we are tolerating it.

Bryan Stevenson, 13th on Netflix (via sheisrecovering)

[golshiftehnews]

[micdotcom]

Watch: Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July speech is still incredibly meaningful today 

[heidisaman]

“We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals. I attest to this: the world is not white. It never was white. It cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”

– James Baldwin

[marianobiagiola]

Sonny Rollins,  St Thomas

[lilbouvier]

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[larmoyante]

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez (via larmoyante)

[lilbouvier]

The doors to richer destinations were heavily guarded, but the doors in, the doors from poorer places, were mostly left unsecured, perhaps in the hope that people would go back to where they came from - although almost no one ever did - or perhaps because there were simply too many doors from too many poorer places to guard them all.

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West