#slivery

[personalized-plates]

SLIVERY

[passion-in-writing]

Snake

Okay so my boyfriend has just gone and got himself a snake, he says it bites but not to worry because it's not venomous. Safe to say I won't be going near that snake.

[spuffy-s7-e20]

Did anyone else realize how many times the word 'silvery' was used in City of Ashes?

[theamericanparlor]

Frederick Douglass

We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. ... We are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here; and that this is our country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy of the action toward us? We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations.

Essay in North Star (November 1858); as quoted in Faces at the Bottom of the Well : The Permanence of Racism (1992) by Derrick Bell, p. 40

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

Speech at the Emancipation League, Boston (12 February 1862)