We are paid very well to refuse to feel. We are paid in poisonous creature comforts, we are paid in false securities, in the spurious belief that tenure might mean survival, that the knock at midnight will always be on somebody else’s door.
Audre Lorde “Poetry Makes Something Happen” (via blackfeminismlives)
This right here! On a day with so many hearts are heavy!
(via blkisacult)
And just before reading this I had written similar words...












