You are a language I am no longer fluent in / but still remember how to read.
Ashe Vernon,
from “Skeleton Song,”
Wrong Side of a Fistfight
(via rcgalbeliever)
“It wasn’t called blaxploitation until I put my feet in the men’s shoes. Men had done the same type of formulaic films before I did. It wasn’t until I stepped in their shoes that they said, ‘Well, these movies are for a black audience.’ I was creating the market for films about women fighting back and using sexuality’.” -Pam Grier
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucious (via leafeaterx)
Slavery By Any Other Name Is the #PrisonIndustrialComplex #schooltoprisonpipeline #MassIncarceration #PoliceState #NeoSlavery
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xinjian (via shortstoriesanalyzed)
Separation of young children, in fact any children, from their carer is child abuse, and I would love to see those who initiated and implemented this policy charged with this offence.
Water falls and cherry blossoms
It eventually gets better, without any sort of explanation; you just wake up one morning and you’re not as upset anymore.
Ten words story: may 2015 hold that morning for you. (via maisjetaime)