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Afeni Shakur, black power militant, imprisoned while pregnant facing a 300+ years sentence. Two months after being set free, she gave birth to the future rap legend.

Afeni Shakur, herself is someone we should all read about.

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Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand - relax. If you relax it comes. If you relax it is there.

Osho (via minuty)

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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

J.K. Rowling (via minuty)

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If you’re an introvert, follow us @introvertunites

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#goals

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Harry really went through the shits.

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also is anyone else amazed that a song with the line “don’t want to meet your momma, just want to make you cumma” was played on radio disney twelve times a day for like three years straight??? can you believe it won a kids’ choice award?? God Bless OutKast

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He literally says in the song “Y’all don’t want to want to hear me, you just want to dance”. The whole song is about Andre’s doubts towards romance in the face of an unhappy relationship and Andre 3000 recognizes that no one will pay attention to the lyrics simply because it has a fun sound and a catchy chorus.

This is why Hey Ya is unironically the best song of the 00s.

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alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright

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Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved - but don’t do it again.

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My teacher posted this on google classroom…

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One of Nasa’s “human computers”, who helped plan the mission that saw an American astronaut orbit the Earth for the first time, has opened a new research centre named in her honour.

“One of Nasa’s “human computers”, who helped plan the mission that saw an American astronaut orbit the Earth for the first time, has opened a new research centre named in her honour.

The key contribution of Katherine Johnson, 99, and other African-American women to the US space programme was recounted in the film Hidden Figures, which gave overdue recognition to their work. The film was the highest grossing Best Picture nominee at the Oscars.

The maths involved in the orbital mission was highly complex, and the computers of the day were prone to technical hiccups.

So as astronaut John Glenn was going through the preflight checklist – upon which his life depended – he insisted that Ms Johnson double check the calculations.

“If she says they’re good,” Ms Johnson remembered Mr Glenn saying, “then I’m ready to go.”

Read the full piece here