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[the-ss-khan]

nobody has time for those trader joe’s samosas leila

[assflat]

I’m never liking anyone ever again crushes are a waste of time and if you have a crush on someone I’m praying for you

[tu-me-manquesss-deactivated2015]

Please don’t tell her the same things you used to tell me. I hope I was at least that special to you.

(via come-bak)

[jessicahenwicks-deactivated2018]

Congratulations Viola Daivs for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rose Lee Maxson in Fences (2016)!

[yawayli-deactivated20140417]

Your Arab aren't you? Have you ever dated a terrorist

nah I’m not into white guys sry

[wa-llahi-deactivated20141113]

[liferuining-soulsnatcher]

Gotta reblog every time I see it

[buttonpoetry]

Watch the full poem “Curanderismo” from Ariana Brown.

[nardleylloyd]

Michelle Obama moodboard

[fly-underground]

When you forget how to spell the name of someone you used to love, you wonder what else you’ve forgotten. If you are confusing letters, maybe you’re also confusing something else. Anyway, this is a dangerous game. Anyway, you aren’t in love anymore and you haven’t thought about this in years. Anyway, your heart is a rock and you have smoothened it’s edges into a stone. Anyway, it wasn’t all bad, right? You must miss something, though it’s getting harder to remember exactly what. It is not too late. Everything is as it should be. If you ever pass each other on a street, what the hell, you’d probably still wave.

Yena Sharma Purmasir, “One More Poem for Richard" (after Sandra Cisneros’ “One Last Poem for Richard”)

[ranemsrk]

[accordingtodevin]

an autobiography (part 1) 

why haven’t i been posting new stuff? i was off fighting demons and had to unplug from the internet. it’s all good now and i apologize for the lack of stuff :) stay awesome -devin

[jalebi-baby]

If your parents are pressuring you to get an arranged marriage, tell them you’ll only do it if they buy you Manish Malhotra lehengas for every function

[bollywood-ishq]

[baawri]

[latinarebels]

wow so powerful.  what film is this?

[xtaticpearl-deactivated20180118]

Lajja. This film is called Lajja. Lajja, in a general translation from Hindi, means Shame. 

It talks about different women in different situations overcoming the shame instilled by the society to keep them under the control of men. 

[gellibean95-deactivated20170509]

Wow

[thequotejournals]

I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (via thequotejournals)

[fuckyeahdialectics]

Dreaming in Gujarati

The children in my dreams speak in Gujarati turn their trusting faces to the sun say to me care for us nurture us in my dreams I shudder and I run.

I am six in a playground of white children Darkie, sing us an Indian song! Eight in a roomful of elders all mock my broken Gujarati English girl!

Twelve, I tunnel into books forge an armor of English words. Eighteen, shaved head combat boots - shamed by masis in white saris neon judgments singe my western head. Mother tongue. Matrubhasha tongue of the mother I murder in myself.

Through the years I watch Gujarati swell the swaggering egos of men mirror them over and over at twice their natural size. Through the years I watch Gujarati dissolve bones and teeth of women, break them on anvils of duty and service, burn them to skeletal ash. Words that don’t exist in Gujarati: Self-expression. Individual. Lesbian.

English rises in my throat rapier flashed at yuppie boys who claim their people “civilized” mine. Thunderbolt hurled at cab drivers yelling Dirty black bastard! Force-field against teenage hoods hissing F****ing Paki bitch! Their tongue - or mine? Have I become the enemy?

Listen: my father speaks Urdu language of dancing peacocks rosewater fountains even its curses are beautiful. He speaks Hindi suave and melodic earthy Punjabi salty rich as saag paneer coastal Kiswahili laced with Arabic, he speaks Gujarati solid ancestral pride. Five languages five different worlds yet English shrinks him down before white men who think their flat cold spiky words make the only reality.

Words that don’t exist in English: Najjar Garba Arati.

If we cannot name it does it exist? When we lose language does culture die? What happens to a tongue of milk-heavy cows, earthen pots jingling anklets, temple bells, when its children grow up in Silicon Valley to become programmers?

Then there’s American: Kin'uh get some service? Dontcha have ice? Not: May I have please? Ben, mane madhath karso? Tafadhali nipe rafiki Donnez-moi, s'il vous plait Puedo tener….. Hello, I said can I get some service?! Like, where’s the line for Ay-mericans in this goddamn airport? Words that atomized two hundred thousand Iraqis: Didja see how we kicked some major ass in the Gulf? Lit up Bagdad like the fourth a’ July! Whupped those sand-niggers into a parking lot!

The children in my dreams speak in Gujarati bright as butter succulent cherries sounds I can paint on the air with my breath dance through like a Sufi mystic words I can weep and howl and devour words I can kiss and taste and dream this tongue I take back.

Shailja Patel, Migritude (2010)

[buzzfeed]

19 PowerPoint Presentations That Should Be In Every School Curriculum Ever

[lucithademon]

He said white ppl are a plague 😹😹

[the-ss-khan]

just gonna quietly tack on my own here.