Written Doodles

Andrea Masamba here; how's it going? You've just accessed my personal haven complete with my photography, writing, artwork I appreciate/aspire to create, and more. I am currently a student at the University of North Texas pursuing a B.A. in Strategic Communications with a Public Relations concentration and a passion for just about everything under the sun. Feel free to explore to gain a better understanding of both my professional and personal aspirations.

[thoughtsintorhymes]

You are a dot in the distance: I cannot tell if you are getting closer or going further away.

Stand Still // r.e.s (via thoughtsintorhymes)

couldn't be more accurate.

[lost-adventures]

[1000drawings]

by Emba

[pearl-nautilus]

David McGlynn

[written-doodlesx]

My Hope

I’m in a state of optimistic hopelessness. Where you’re suddenly the most aware of your imperfections as you’ve ever been; yet the groundbreaking light and radiance of the perfect savior shines to rid you of complete darkness. In the midst of my constant chaos you are my present help - my safeguard. You see everything. May I never lose my wonder, my God. 

[makeuphall]

[antigonick]

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Gregory Orr, Poetry As Survival (via henrydear)

[situarei]

[hayleypowers]

[crutch4-deactivated20190911]

Friendship goals.

[stvdy]

[itsalegacydarling]

[written-doodlesx]

The more time I spend here, the more certain I am of the fact that expectations were never meant for the human race. In fact, “conditional” is the correct term; we’re conditional beings who give and take love as if it is ours to do so, and rue the day our people choose to do the same. Long story short: people are who they are. Stop being surprised by that, and learn to love beyond the conditions. 

-Andrea P Masamba

[bunlly]

[collectivehistory-deactivated20]

[distinguishedcompany]

“Standing Tall Amid the Glares” by Paul Schutzer.

Lewis Cousins, age 15, the only African American student in the newly desegregated Maury High School, standing alone. 1959, Norfolk, VA. 

[beautifulurself]

i don’t know where this image originates, but it’s been on my mind a lot lately. finger prints and tree rings. identifiers of life lived.

[reshmarambles]

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.’

Lena Dunham, in an interview with The Guardian (x)