Yodith: In Progress

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[viperslang]

Foreign-ness is my emerald, my colonial inheritance, my costume, my revenge.

Bhanu kapil on twitter  (via viperslang)

[thesoulfunkybrother]

Akatre:Tropical.

[tomboybklyn]

those earrings and those bracelets

[kingrudegyalchina]

All of that and her skin

[surra-de-bunda]

Gorgeous

[postingwhileblack]

7 Girls Show What Beauty Looks Like When It’s Not Appropriated

Kyemah McEntyre on her Afro:

Eiko Hara on Japanese beauty:

Daunnette Reyome on her feather:

Sashamoni Burnett on her locs:

Leaf McLean on her baby hairs:

Natasha Ramachandran on her traditions:

Brandi Kinard on her braids:

Appreciate, don’t appropriate other cultures. 

#StopCulturalAppropriation

[eagvlls]

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Spike Lee

[vicforprez]

[psych-facts]

Don’t assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don’t say anything you can’t stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

 Warsan Shire  (via purplebuddhaproject)

[gael-garcia]

So my plan has always just been to do what I love for as long as I can. I think that’s all we ever do, you know?  

— CREED (2015). dir Ryan Coogler

[wordsnquotes]

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Scott McCloud (via poetsandwriters)

[90shiphopraprnb]

[90shiphopraprnb]

En Vogue

[wordsnquotes]

i am kind of just existing, breathing gently, walking lightly, and i am trying so hard, so very, very hard, not to disturb a thing, but i am always too heavy, too present, leaving a trail everywhere i go, and sometimes i just want to be forgotten. these days, i just want to not be seen.

Farah Gabdon (via wordsnquotes)

[frontpagewoman]

“Or maybe we should’ve put a slave in Straight Outta Compton,” he said. “I think that’s where we messed up. That’s where we messed up. Just one random slave for the Academy members to recognize us as a real, black movie.”

Ice Cube on the Angie Martinez Show

(via frontpagewoman)

[ethiopienne]

jon and i had fun on twitter the other day

[ethiopienne]

#once again IM your wcw #what is blue mist

lmao @ethiopianunorthodox blue mist is the most habesha of all shisha flavors

[wnq-anonymous]

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

Khalil Gibran (via mardhiyya)

[howtobeafuckinglady]

Method Man with his then girlfriend now wife photographed by Lise Sarfati (1995)

[maximushka-deactivated20181204]

Photographed by Maxim Vakhovskiy

[words-of-emotion]

How convenient that only I remember.

SixWordQuote (via words-of-emotion)