I’m Still Here

[deep-meadow-deactivated20260322]

[mesekoclan]

Ms/Ko

[lamekosta]

[oggeminivenus]

[ganymedian]

I am sooooo not locked in. I am tucked in. Going to sleep

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin speaking

[whatevergreen]

“I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they [Jews] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction. When I was in Israel it was as though I was in the middle of The Fire Next Time.” James Baldwin, 1970

"But the state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of the Western interests. This is what is becoming clear (I must say that it was always clear to me). The Palestinians have been paying for the British colonial policy of ‘divide and rule’ and for Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for more than thirty years." James Baldwin, 1979

https://lithub.com/james-baldwin-and-the-roots-of-black-palestinian-solidarity/

[swanlake1998]

mel tomlinson photographed by daniel s. sorine

[cosmicanger]

[sleepingsirian]

[guerrillatech]

[macassarebony-deactivated202603]

“Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. Never let the man that you’re against form your opinions. This is the trick that’s played on everyone who’s oppressed: when you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. Then, you start telling the people that the war is over, so all of them surrender. They believe that thing right there. And once they take that over, they start telling you where you are and where they are, and you fall right in line — it’s plain thought control. The majority of the American people aren’t segregationists. The majority of the American people aren’t imperialists. But the government is. The structure is; the power faction is. So, how, then, do all the majority go along with it? Because those who sit in power over the television, over the radio, and over the press are constantly telling those who are the masses how free they are, how this they are, and how that they are.”

[kosmogrl]

I never got over anything. I miss everyone and everything. nostalgia and grief kill me every day. oh and I also love going on walks.

[themakeupbrush]

Tamara Ralph

[heartpdf]

[primulaceas]

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[blackgirldiariess]

a woman’s best investment, after herself, is in the company she keeps.

[389]

sorry for being intense about everything, it’ll happen again

[blooooom]

there’s a misconception that grief only happens when we lose people. this is not true. we can grieve circumstances, relationships, missed opportunities. in fact, sometimes when you find yourself plagued with waves of emotion from sadness to melancholy you may be grieving yourself. the version of yourself that you might have been if things had been different, or if only you had said something, or if someone had stood up for you.