January 2012
16 posts
“To me, God is everything. The universe, nature, everything you see, all the...”
– Conor Oberst (via oberstcult)
Words honestly cannot describe how I abhor what...
lebanesepoppyseed:
MLK Jr. didn’t ask for rights, he wasn’t pandering or sweet to the forces that oppressed him. He was a threat to whiteness through and through.
MLK Jr. wasn’t violent not because he wanted to gain some brownie points from whitedom but because he KNEW, FIRSTHAND, what violence does to a people, both those who are abusing and those who are being abused.
MLK Jr. didn’t dress...
hidingfefe:
I have been wearing the same shirt since Ohio and I have found I have no experience with forgiveness. I have collected all my scars like armour, thinking that they would protect me. I want to photograph you in Iowa and show you a sky bigger than any of you have known so you might understand. I want you to kill yourself if I do. I want my parents to die painlessly. I want to die...
“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the...”
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You (via danikamcclure)
“I know what’s coming. I know no one beats these odds. It’s a matter of getting...”
– Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
December 2011
17 posts
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via suzywire)
“I feel as if I’m always on the verge of waking up.”
– Fernando Pessoa
“I can’t breathe with these words in my mouth. But I’m not going to say them....”
– Bright Eyes
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
This is so relevant to everything.
(via mindyshabibti)
THIS THIS THIS.
This is what rape culture looks like.
(via silverqueen)
““Fat” is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants...”
– J.K. Rowling
(via thehalf-marauderprincess)
“Queerness is also a performative because it is not simply a being but a doing...”
– “Cruising Utopia : The Then and There of Queer Futurity” by Jose Esteban Munoz (via sistahmamaqueen)
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
– Alaska Young (Looking For Alaska, John Green)
November 2011
4 posts
“I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute...”
– Fernando Pessoa
October 2011
25 posts
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We...”
– Diary, Chuck Palahniuk (via sealegslegssea)
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger (via beautyisanillusion)
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via shakethecobwebs)
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)
“Most of the people I have ever met have somebody who they can fall back into...”
– Morrissey (via loveyourchaos)
