براندون

The Flower that grew in the ghetto knows more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

[perfectfeelings]

“Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still loves you.”

— Nizar Qabbani

[seraphim-eternal]

To love someone is to see them as God intended them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[daweyt]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Brothers Karamazov”, originally published c. 1879–1880.

[somos-rosas]

love and happiness.

[somos-rosas]

love.

[surqrised]

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again.”

— Victor Hugo

[firstfullmoon]

It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.

James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk (via firstfullmoon)

[sentimentalbot]

— James Baldwin, from, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” originally published in 1974

[somos-rosas]

Hi Sarah :)

[thecalminside]

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

-Kahlil Gibran

[quotefeeling]

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran (via quotefeeling)

[macrolit]

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-America writer, poet, philosopher and visual artist (via macrolit)

[firstfullmoon]

Let there be no love poems written Until love can exist freely and Cleanly. Let Black people understand That they are the lovers and the sons Of warriors and sons Of warriors Are poems & poets & All the loveliness here in the world

— Amiri Baraka, from “Black Art”

[somos-rosas]

hi sarah.

[shihlun]

“Music is our witness, and our ally. The ‘beat’ is the confession which recognizes, changes, and conquers time. Then, history becomes a garment we can wear and share, and not a cloak in which to hide; and time becomes a friend.”

— James Baldwin

[firstfullmoon]

“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”

— James Baldwin, from “Nothing Personal,” in Collected Essays

[firstfullmoon]

“I fell in love. Or, more accurately, I realized, and accepted for the first time that love was not merely a general, human possibility, nor merely the disaster it had so often, by then, been for me—according to me—nor was it something that happened to other people, like death, nor was it merely a mortal danger: it was among my possibility, for here it was, breathing and belching beside me, and it was the key to life. Not merely the key to my life, but to life itself.”

— James Baldwin, from “Take Me to the Water,” in No Name in the Street