September 2011
“Our revolution shall not be headed by violence nor the sword—it may have to be...”
– Jorge Luis Brito (via deadbeatdaughter)
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love is a journey, i'm hoping i return from.: To... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
This only works if you are privileged. If I judged all taxi cabs by how they act and not the likely fact that they will leave my black ass in the street, I would be 45 minutes late going everywhere. If brown people trusted cops/courts/juries by how they acted…
shaneromero asked: Why are you so fuckin fly?
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RIP Anna, Chicken
Lord
Give us what we asked you for.
We beg you for rain
when our growth has required
too much patience.
We beg for our crops to yellow
under too pale a sun,
we beg you for darker nights
and fuller moons.
We kneel in our corners
with our children and
we give them to you.
We have been giving
our children to you, leading
them
exit wound and bloody
mouth
to your threshold,
praying at you for an...
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Serves You Right
Call it a midnight train
amidst it’s stalling, call
it oblong, a pause without
corners, no safety run,
just a night of big
courage and the gun that
comes with it.
Come morning, I’ll find
that no one stayed for
maintenance, that I was
weak, that I asked you
to hold me and you couldn’t.
you promised your
arms to a street vendor
that hadn’t come back.
“And we also have a white suitemate. She has a friend who looks exactly like...”
– (via miawildchild)
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Bastard of A Full Moon: Yesterday's (9/22)... →
bastardofafullmoon:
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”- Gil Scott-Heron
The preceding quote by the late and great, Gil Scott-Heron, cannot be more precise in reciting the failed publicity of the forthcoming revolution that is, and shall be taking place here on our home-soil: America.
Yesterday,…
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Letter from Troy Davis
I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she...
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Marvin's Room
“How was it?”
I wished that the entire
night was you.
“It was pleasant.”
We stood really
close but far enough
to feel like we
couldn’t understand
each other. I left
and wondered if
you were starting
to feel that way,
as if you were a
warm room with
too many hearts
stuck in it.
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What is Forbidden is Larger
- I can walk into you with spacey silence and a retired
foreman’s hands.
I promised the wrong
floorplan to the wrong
person. I’ve only a tea candle
and a prayer, now.
- When I was a child, my mother traveled
so often. I memorized
the trail of frankincense from
my room to the door. I knew,
when the air creased behind her,
that I’d no right to cry. I could
not be arrogant enough to
request...
“You think I don’t know that? Nigga,...
Three of the Saddest Moments in My Childhood:
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I Am A Threshold
God traveled here.
Sat in all the middle of me.
I kept thinking of running
away with it’s map. “See? Look
at what I’ve got; the mouth
of a wanderer.”
~
I looked in the face
of a new book
and read everything
incorrectly, upside down.
The problem with a seer is
the promise of sight;
I see everything that will
ruin me before
it sees itself. I carry its
secret with exalt and
sand. When it...
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The Political Notebook: SCOTUS, Perry and the... →
thepoliticalnotebook:
Late last night the Supreme Court heeded a petition for clemency for Duane Buck and indefinitely halted his execution pending a review. They intervened just before the execution was to take place; Buck had already eaten his last meal.
This is a temporary stay of execution, but still as…
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Nefer
When my heart was most feeble,
it still thought that it could walk with dinosaurs.
At any given moment,
it was a purpling prophet with its mouth
stored in a closet.
In the quake of patient opportunity
I was in fear of it most, of its
noble anger,
of the way it is always most loyal to me.
Now, I burn a new candle
for all the deflation.
Every broken heart gives
up when you tell it to find its...
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“Write whatever it takes to stay alive.”
– Rachel McKibbens (via bastardofafullmoon)
Dear Black community, what happened?
“As a Muslim, I’m sick of people asking me how I feel about 9/11. What do you...”
– Aman Ali (via j-a-apostrophe-m-i-e)
seedlesschicken asked: I need someone to talk to.
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What’s hers, is hers.
Mouth like a cradle, arms
the bookends of seasons,
everything obia is in his
hands, so every moment is
Africa, I understand.
But still, remember that a woman stolen
from is a woman with a new subscription
for night,
remember that scars are tally marks,
an abacus of who she will plan
to see swallowed next.
Remember that a woman
stolen from is an ocean
shucked in two,
and that if an entire...
The lynching of Laura Nelson and her son, several...
howtobenoladarling:
This was a postcard. You know those mementos, you send to family members to remind them of the “good times” you had. Lynchings were EVENTS. Like the County Fair. People brought their children, ate snacks and watched as black bodies swung on branches. As black penis’s were stuffed in jars, black breasts lay severed on the park floor. I dont forget. Nor will I forgive....
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“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second...”
– Banksy (via lofosho)
ooh. oh shit.
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“Casual racists: Conservative, liberatarian, independent, and liberal individuals...”
– Son of A Baldwin via Facebook (via notesonascandal)
These are the type of racists I’ve encountered more than any other, especially in since moving to NYC. New Yorkers like to use the diverse racial make-up of the city and the fact that they’re not Southerners or went to a liberal arts college as a...
HAUS OF LE SHADE: U.S. Gov. Secretly Infected... →
eatdreamphotograph:
United States government scientists infected 5,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea between 1946 and 1948 to study the effects of penicillin, according to recent findings of a U.S. presidential panel investigation set up by President Obama.
The Guatemalans forced…
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