Failed Ingenue

Rejena. black USian, southern, socialist democratic, legal educator, outspoken feminist, newbie wife, sporadic writer, obsessive reader, romantic cynic, naturally curly, comic book lover, former attorney, and identical twin.

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XXX - Slay Renee!!! 🙌

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Black Panther scenes from the first “Captain America: Civil War” trailer!

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#WeAreWakanda  

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When Black Panther popped up on screen I didn’t even say words, just made a “MMMMMMMM” sound like the THX noise.

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These comments just keep getting better and better!

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Mostly, I remember how hard the ice was when I’d fall. Over and over. That’s why I switched to martial arts… padded floors.

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I admit, your mother's difficult to shop for…

[brittany-murphy]

[disneyanimationmoana]

14-year old native Hawaiian Auliíi Cravalho will voice Moana!

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The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls. You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad. If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that

- Nicki Minaj on Miley Cryus in an interview with The New York Times (via celebritiesofcolor)

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You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history.

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (via shinjimes)

[annoyingfeministbitch]

“It’s just hair”

[lesterfreamon]

The Wire 2x06

[drbonesmccoy]

☽☾  for melindaamay​

[ninarosario]

I’m a girl in a world in which My only job is to marry rich My father has no son so I’m the one Who has to social climb for one So I’m the oldest and the wittiest And the gossip in New York City is insidious And Alexander is penniless That doesn’t mean I want him any less…

[gunstreetgrl]

A Rough Guide to Surviving The Unsurvivable 1) If you live with monsters, you’ll become monstrous. This can be good and it can be bad. You need to keep your perspective and know when it’s time to quit a bad scene. 2) Learn the difference between honesty and being a dick. 3) Once you stop looking for identity, you start to die. 4) Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you. Don’t let the assholes win. 5) Read more than you drink. 6) When you feel the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad coming on, scream as loudly as you possibly can. It’s good medicine. 7) Remember: If someone is talking shit about someone else to you, they probably talk shit about you too. If they’re doing it on the Internet, they’re probably someone you don’t want to be friends with. Know a vendetta when you see one. Shit-talkers are like black mold: They’ll infect you and you might not even know it. you don’t need that darkness in your life. Bitterness will jump from you to them.

Adam Gnade (The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting The Big Motherfuckin’ Sad)

This reblogged bit (above) is from a book of mine you can find here. I did an interview about it today while standing on the shore of a lake. The water was dead still–glassy and calm, mirroring the clouds. As I paced around the water’s edge talking to the very nice journalist, there was a family of deer across the shore of the cove poking in and out of the woods and stepping down to the water to drink. One of the deer (a very young one) was running these big, excited, wild laps along the shore like a puppy. It was nice. Tonight we are listening to Kurt Vile and getting ready for a late dinner. This is nice too.

(via gnade)

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Agent 355 and Yorick by Pia Guerra