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sloppylovejingle: eternallybeautifullyblack: Phylicia Rashad gets more and more beautiful with age.  Black don’t crack! She’s gorgeous, my goodness. wow.

"

No,
I cannot
turn from love,
in affirmation
with measured
finesse, like some
dull fuzzed cocoon
metamorphosing into a
bright-winged butterfly,
a tight-brown bud
transforming, with
sunburst halo, into
a chrysanthemum,
a five-o’clock
blossoming, with
daily gusto, into
full bloom.

No.
If I must turn from love,
it will be with
the cadence of an
addict flinging poppy
from tremorous grasp
while retched with
the effort of breaking
the habit, or a
gravedigger turning
daisy-filled clods
on a fresh made
bed.

"

sarah webster fabio, to turn from love. (via black-poetry)

"Don’t you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable? Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which ‘I am’ is timelessly present. Soon you will realize that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels that disturbs. Avoid the disturbance, that is all."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via lazyyogi)

cuntpocolypse:

theniggaskaramazov:

anticodon:

So I was on the train today and these two black guys were having a conversation not even that loud and said “nigga” like once when this white lady turns around and says “How do you think MLK Jr. would feel about you using that kind of language” and one of the guys snaps back and said “Idk maybe if your people didn’t shoot him I would know”

OOP

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"In a way, Kanye’s entire discography is leading to this (probable) point—his first two records were about reaching the top, Graduation was about loving life there, 808’s and Heartbreak was how the top can fuck up your personal life, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was about growing restless at the top, and Watch the Throne found him and Jay-Z negotiating the idea of why there weren’t more black men at the top. And now, it seems, Kanye’s taking stock of the world as he sees it from upon high, and deciding that he doesn’t like what’s flashing in front of his Fendi frames. The fact that the biggest black entertainer in the country even made those two records and debuted them on the beyond-white bread Saturday Night Live is huge. This isn’t Das Racist razzing a few privileged white kids at Music Hall of Williamsburg. This is Kanye West going into a million white people’s living rooms and saying, “Look at the terrible things your people have done to my people and are still doing to my people. We are not going to take it. I’m so pissed right now I wouldn’t even be here if I didn’t have something incredibly urgent to say. Fuck you.” That’s a powerful act, something that you can put up there with things that Bob Marley or Tupac did. I know that’s outlandish, but one day we’ll be holding Kanye West up next to those guys, so we might as well start now."

Drew Millard, The Revolutionary Politics of Kanye West  (via spring1999)

(via harmlessun-truths)

trust issues.
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libawr: The “biggest winner of the 2012 election” (aka Nate Silver) presents his BS-meter (modeled on the old terror alert system) to evaluate information sources & “expertise.” Also: market-based approach > market worship robust data > “big data” scientific consensus > peer-reviewed paper process focus > outcome focus probabilism > certainty “Probability is the waystone between ignorance and knowledge.” Audience at #pdf13 is furiously taking notes. brilliance.

"i fuck with you"

me talking to myself in the mirror (via 3loco)

(via theeducatedfieldnegro)

PHOTOSET See full set

veritasdico:

liamdryden:

rocketfists:

Justin Timberlake and Daft Punk | Lucky Suit & Tie (MASHUP)

not a huge fan of mashups, but this is alright.

(Source: andrewpresents, via doingitsouthernstyle)