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they / them / their textile designer & visual artist jill scott can't save you so stop quoting her like scriptures, bruh twitter: @_lowkei

[low--kei]

“History, I contend, is the present — we, with every breathe we take, every move we make, are History — and what goes around, comes around.”

- James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

[low--kei]

“What one does not remember dictates who one loves or fails to love.”

- James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

[low--kei]

“We know so well that often folks did the best that they could do given difficult and oftentimes harsh circumstances. However, to regain emotional well-being we have to be able to see the bad that emerged in these settings as well as the good.”

- bell hooks, salvation

[low--kei]

“All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives on difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss.”

— all about love | bell hooks (via low–kei)

[low--kei]

“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling — it is a decision, it is a judgement, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go.”

— all about love | bell hooks (via low–kei)

[low--kei]

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we’re reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can’t even talk or think about it directly.

Diane Ackerman, in “all about love” by bell hooks

[low--kei]

Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word “love” is the source of our difficulty in living. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.

bell hooks, all about love

[low--kei]

The human spirit has infinite capacity. We can hold within us a paradox. We can experience both joy and sadness. The joy does not diminish the loss; the loss does not diminish the joy. Sometimes we live as if we need to make a choice between positive and negative emotions, as if to choose one is to betray the other. We seem to say, how can I be happy when I have the sadness of loss, when I live with uncertainty, when a loved one is suffering, when the world is suffering? Or, we say, how can I live in sadness when there is so much to be grateful for, so many blessings, so much reason for gladness? And sometimes we live as if we are in competition for the attention and admiration of others. We want them to choose us, to love us, to pay attention to us. But people have an infinite capacity to love, if they are not made to choose. We can love completely and utterly, so much, so many. The human spirit has infinite capacity to feel all things, to live as if all is possible, to love, to imagine, to experience, to hope, to rise above

Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar

[low--kei]

Something painful happened in your life. Go back gently. Touch that place. Go through that place. Feel what it feels like. Because if you feel it, you will go through it. Promise yourself that when you’re feeling what you feel, you’ll give yourself permission to be true to that. Aaron wanted to shut down. He lost his two boys. His life was over. How would he ever regroup? The Torah says to Aaron, ‘Gently enter that place again.’ Walk in. Because if you don’t it’s going to keep coming up again and again.

Rabbi David Ingber

[low--kei]

We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.

Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love

[low--kei]

Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word “love” is the source of our difficulty in living. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.

bell hooks, all about love

[low--kei]

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we’re reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can’t even talk or think about it directly.

Diane Ackerman, in “all about love” by bell hooks

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A Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Syllabus

A Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Syllabus

  With the awful realization that we are indeed in a fight for our very survival coming over me for the past few years, I’ve asked myself this question: what can I do right now, today? With my resources limited or tapped out, I’ve often felt helpless, especially when I’ve had to go to others for help so many times. But today, I realized one thing I can do. I know that everyone is doing syllabi…

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[low--kei]

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling — it is a decision, it is a judgement, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go.

all about love | bell hooks (via low–kei)

[low--kei]

All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives on difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss.

all about love | bell hooks (via low–kei)

[low--kei]

All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives on difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss.

all about love | bell hooks (via low--kei)

[low--kei]

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling — it is a decision, it is a judgement, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go.

all about love | bell hooks (via low–kei)