The Imagination

I am a firm believer in the power of the imagination. I believe in dreams and their ability to transcend reality.

[delta-breezes]

[blackfeminismlives]

Lex and Kai foreva. #spanishmoss #dreamarchive #oyalegacies

[mazuba]

Love, love, love!

[deeplifequotes]

Anyone who has grown mentally, physically or spiritually knows that growth is not found in comfort.

Unknown (via aquietcottagelife)

[versosdeliberacion]

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, Warriorpoetess (via versosdeliberacion)

[the-spiritual-self]

[nbrown0304-deactivated20150329]

[genderqueerspace]

Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’s domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. […] Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing. Often we can glimpse the worlds proposed and promised by queerness in the realm of the aesthetic. The aesthetic, especially the queer aesthetic, frequently contains blueprints and schemata of a forward-dawning futurity. Both the ornamental and the quotidian can contain a map of the utopia that is queerness. Turning to the aesthetic in the case of queerness is nothing like an escape from the social realm, insofar as queer aesthetics map future social relations. Queerness is also a performative because it is not simply a being but a doing for and toward the future. Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.

José Esteban Muñoz, 

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Goodbye, Professor Muñoz.  You are missed by many.

(via blackqueerboi)

[fatinspiration-deactivated20191]

“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before. ”

Alice Walker (via fatinspiration)

[otpglobal]

Video of the #CommonBound closing keynote. Just incredible. Feat @GarAlperovitz, @GopalDayaneni, and adriennemareebrown: http://t.co/gR7SzpEgiW

— NewEconomyCoalition (@NewEconomics) June 17, 2014

[adriennemareebrown]

Loved this conversation!

[bogusbogey]

[berniesrevolution]

[blackfilm]

Afro.Germany - Being Black and German

“Black and German: news anchor Jana Pareigis has spent her entire life being asked about her skin color. What is it like to be black in Germany? What needs to change? “Where are you from?” Afro-German journalist Jana Pareigis has heard that question since her early childhood. And she’s not alone. Black people have been living in Germany for around 400 years, and today there are an estimated one million Germans with dark skin. But they still get asked the latently racist question, “Where are you from?” Jana Pareigis is familiar with the undercurrents of racism in the western world. When she was a child, the Afro-German TV presenter also thought her skin color was a disadvantage. "When I was young, I wanted to be white,” she says. Parageis takes us on a trip through Germany from its colonial past up to the present day, visiting other dark-skinned Germans to talk about their experiences. They include rapper Samy Deluxe, pro footballer Gerald Asamoah and Theodor Michael, who lived as a black man in the Third Reich. They talk about what it’s like to be black in Germany.”

[silk101]

[connorcornell]

[maheaf]

[peonyandbee]

[queengreendown]

Take a real nice shower and start over.