[thereignclub-trc]

If it’s meant for me, I will have it. If it isn’t, I’m prepared to receive something even better.

[aidashakur]

Forever humble because what God gives, he can also take.

[mufti-ismail-menk]

Almighty. Grant strength to those suffering in silence, where life is hard and they feel they can't go on. But they put on a brave front despite all that. Have mercy on them. Pick them up and help them get through the difficult period. Aameen.

[callmehashimoto]

Cleansing by Maxine Walker, from the series Black Beauty, 1991

[jareckiworld]

Mark Kostabi — Metropolitan 5:00 AM  (acrylic on canvas, 1995)

[jigsawgirl96-deactivated2022030]

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/the-beautyhappiness-connection/375678/

I feel like this explains my entire life trajectory and confirms what I thought I knew about living in the first place

[artist-kerryjamesmarshall]

Kerry James Marshall, Two Invisible Men (The Lost Portraits), 1985

[haverst]

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[sentimentalbeing2001]

“all too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”

- bell hooks, (1952-2021)

[fuzzyghost]

[guerrillatech]

[kendrysaneela]

This is why I love the “Covid is faked” conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism

[geijutsu1]

Look up the manhattan project you dipshits

[sashibunbun]

You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?

The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?

The one that had so many close calls to they’re working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?

THAT Manhattan Project?

[dixkens]

The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?

That Manhattan project?

[anarchopuppy]

We’re talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?

[saigajenisis]

Missing summer her.

[joyyfully]

I’m not interested in love anymore I moved on

[plumslices]

I still think about this often :/

[wintercorrybriea]

frank ocean 2021 blonded poster

[welldresshoodlum]

CDC really said if you don’t give a damn, we don’t give a fuck. 

[saigajenisis]

[danielle-mertina]

I don’t usually like making generational generalizations (lol kinda a pun) but I do think that women demand less from men than at any point in modern American history. 

It seems like for millennial women it’s “wrong” to expect a man to pay for a date or to wait until he’s proven himself to have sex with him or to actually care about how much money a man is on track to make. 

Millennial women are just supposed to be compliant sex dolls who also cook and clean and go 50/50 on all bills–maybe even be the breadwinner in addition to taking care of those household duties. And they definitely cannot expect marriage which they are told is just a “piece of paper” when it clearly isn’t. 

I feel like we’re in a very regressive time when it comes to relationships between men and women. It’s like women are being aggressively bullied into having zero standards via memes/ internet discussion, the media, and the dating scene in general. Especially black women. I hate to see it.