January 2011
30 posts
Super Relax.: You know what actually doesn't bug... →
uprightcitizens:
Here’s the deal. I am not a “pretty” girl. I am well aware of this. People don’t really look twice at me, I’ve never gotten attention for being “pretty,” when I get compliments it usually has to do with something I’ve said or achieved rather than the way I look. I had a close…
radical possibilities, babe: Just a few things... →
research-and-destroy:
If you’re brown and you shoot a politician, it’s terrorism and ‘the problem with these people’; if you’re white, it’s ‘strange’. If you’re brown and you wipe your nose in public, it’s because you’re ‘dirty’; if you’re white it’s because you ‘have a cold’. If you’re brown…
“For my part, although all my childhood I was drawn to the poets of exuberance...”
– Hell by Henri Barbusse
“…although music had attained a perfection without parallel in the history...”
– Hell by Henri Barbusse
“I undersood deep inside me that man is more closely attached to man than to his...”
– Hell by Henri Barbusse
“If we want to cure mankind of oppression and war, we are right to use every...”
– Hell by Henri Barbusse
“For the world’s ulcer there is a great overall cause; subservience to the...”
– Hell by Henri Barbusse
“To express oneself, to awaken what is alive, is the only thing which really...”
– Hell by Henri Barbusse
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– MLK
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and...”
– MLK
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...”
– MLK
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
– MLK
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and...”
– MLK
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
– MLK
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to...”
– MLK
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
– MLK
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines...”
– MLK
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
– MLK
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant...”
– MLK
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you...”
– MLK
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I...”
– MLK
“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
– Franz Kafka (via winterlungs)
“Water. I want to be like water; strong enough to hold up a ship, but weak enough...”
– Michelle Williams (via sarahgraham7)
“Why does one feel so different at night? Why is it so exciting to be awake when...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via suzywire)
“Nobody can be really happy. You can have moments of happiness, moments of joy....”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha (via magicdoeshappen)