masebotsana

[lavisualiza-deactivated20150823]

[wordsthat-speak]

Even in this world where you’re seemingly getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and isolation and disconnection.

Spike Jonze discussing Her (via wordsthat-speak)

[masebotsana]

I am a person who writes and tells stories. That's what I want to talk about. There's an obsession with celebrity that I have never had. But the one thing I will say is that I really do think Beyoncé is a force for good, as much as celebrity things go. I know there has been lot of talk in the past year about how feminism is 'cool' now, but I think if we are honest, it's not a subject that's easy. She didn't have to do this, she could have taken on, I don't know, world peace. Or nothing at all. And I realise that so many young people in our celebrity-obsessed world, well, suddenly they are thinking about this. And that's a wonderful thing. So I don't have any reservations about having said yes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke to Erica Wagner for Vogue

[whos-afraid-of-postblack-ar-blog]

"I saw myself…and I didn’t see myself."

Deborah Grant, on viewing a Modernism show at MoMA containing only white artists

The Flaming Fury Of Bayard Rustin Queen At The End Of The Bar

2008

[masebotsana]

Some of the greatest African writers of my generation may never be discovered, either because they will not reach across the Atlantic Ocean to attract the attention of an agent or publisher, or because they have not yet mastered the art of deciphering Western tastes.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani in the New York Times.

[yourbigsisnissi]

Allow people the space to grow and transform Don’t be that voice Reminding someone of their missteps in the past Appreciate and encourage their ability to change and do better Don’t be the one to say “but you weren’t always this happy/this saved/this together/this blessed/this full/this mature/this prosperous” Don’t be that person

[nolyesjustus]

[drunkvanity-deactivated20161113]

shout out to the girls that hate their bodies but are trying really really hard to find the beauty and comfort in them because that shit is hard and takes a lot of time and is emotionally exhausting. i’m proud of y’all.

[masebotsana]

"It did not work out with us because I think I honestly was so into what I was doing with my life. We were so good and I got so hot and so busy, he got so boring to me. It's like, the guy that don't drink, don't smoke, in the house. The guy that, really, women want that's in the house at night. You not in the streets, you not in the club, you don't go to strip clubs, you're not partying. But my lifestyle was so elaborate I could not just be in the house at 8 o' clock and you just sitting there like...and I'm just ready to like, turn up. [...] I'm too young for that. I was too tied down. I couldn't function."

[masebotsana]

Although Famlove Vol 1: Fun Is Serious is an EP, it's been nominated in the Best Mixtape category of the South African Hip Hop Awards. "The award-winning fratpack" has a nice ring to it.

[larmoyante]

I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.

Rudy Francisco (via larmoyante)

[afroxvx]

I'm wondering what kind of foundation/powders you use? They're obviously going to be vegan right? Do they have any shades for white skin? Your skin always looks great. Thanks. :)

Um, ok. So knowing full well you can walk into any place where make up is sold and find all the ghostly shades under the sun, you’re really pretending to be worried about finding your shade. Like you don’t notice your huge selections everywhere vs the 5 shades for brown skin?

Anyways, I use melanin.

[000000snf]

omg

[hip-hop-lifestyle]

Hip-Hop Producer 9th Wonder's encounter with a racist Police Officer.

"Yes…your Grammy Award Winning, Professional, Sample Chopping, favorite producer…

I’m black first….before anything…..”

[anotherafrica-blog]

Wangechi Mutu Takes On Transmutation As a New Form of Existentialism

On the eve of Wangechi Mutu’s solo show, ‘Nguva na Nyoka’ (Sirens and Serpents) opening this October 14 2014 at London’s Victoria Miro gallery, the artist shared candid thoughts and insights on her latest body of work with Another Africa’s Joyce Bidouzo-Coudray much like what inspired her to delve into Kenya’s rich folkloric mythologies:

"The fact that women have this option to turn into these myths, these powerful, indefinable creatures – especially in a place like the coast of Kenya where the traditionally patriarchal cultures of the African Mijikenda tribes prevail – is such a testament to all the possibilities of what a woman can do in a place where she is not actually permitted to do much. That is completely inspiring to me also as an artist. So that is why I dug into it."

Wangechi Mutu

Source | anotherafrica.net

[© Wangechi Mutu. Even, 2014. ]

Image courtesy of Wangechi Mutu and Victoria Miro, London.

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[masebotsana]

[masebotsana]

[fistoffight]

[masebotsana]

“She removes her wig, her eyelashes, her makeup, never breaking eye contact with the reflection of her natural self. It’s an intimate, powerful moment television doesn’t often show: A black woman removing all the elements white supremacy tells her she has to wear to be beautiful, successful, powerful. And let’s not forget that that wasn’t just Annalise taking it off: It was Davis, too—Davis, who remains brave in a world where a New York Times critic can get away with calling her ‘less classically beautiful.’” x