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"Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:15:46 -0500

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”

- Benjamin Franklin (via petitedino)

"All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents then by the culture..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:28:54 -0500

“All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents then by the culture around them, that they must earn the right to be loved — that “femaleness” is not good enough. This is a female’s first lesson in the school of patriarchal thinking and values. She must earn love. She is not entitled. She must be good enough to be loved. And good is always defined by someone else, someone on the outside.”

- bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love (via nepantlera-en-la-frontera)

True shit. We’re taught that if someone doesn’t love us, then we didn’t work hard enough or try hard enough, or we simply weren’t good enough. That kind of psychotic mindset impacts so many young women.

(via thegoddamazon)

I think the most twisted form of this is, “You have to love yourself first!” I hate that one. It’s used to make absolutely everything our fault. “Men keep abusing me.” Well, if you don’t love yourself first that’s the type of guy you’ll attract! “No one will love me because I’m Black.” Well, if you love yourself first, you can magically not be aware of racism!

(via blackraincloud)

"Get my swan costume ready. Play the last measure softly."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:26:57 -0500

“Get my swan costume ready. Play the last measure softly.”

- The dying words of Anna Pavlova (via hanabones)

"People shouldn’t have to appear always, you know, stable and content, because people aren’t always..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:26:36 -0500

“People shouldn’t have to appear always, you know, stable and content, because people aren’t always stable and content. And it makes it harder, and it makes us as a majority more unstable and more discontented because we don’t have the freedom to express all of these darker sides of our emotions. Because we’re supposed to keep everything very, you know, friendly and polite and appropriate all the time. And I think that every emotion is appropriate whenever it arises.”

- Fiona Apple (x)

Me: not always stable and content.

My followers: yup, we concur.

(via myorganicriot)

"You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:26:16 -0500

““You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.””

- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via mirroir)

playboy: 50 Years of the Playboy Interview: Men of Letters

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:25:09 -0500

playboy:

50 Years of the Playboy Interview: Men of Letters

playboy: 50 Years of the Playboy Interview: The Directors

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:25:01 -0500

playboy:

50 Years of the Playboy Interview: The Directors

strengthinsolitude: Some women are delicate things. Some women...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:23:29 -0500

strengthinsolitude:

Some women are delicate things. Some women are delicious and wondrous. If you want to piss on the sun, go ahead. But please leave them alone…

"I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:46:09 -0500

““I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.””

- Dodie Smith (via allegorys)

americanhighwayflower: Deal with it.

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:45:32 -0500

americanhighwayflower:

Deal with it.

School is really important: Reading, writing, arithmetic. But...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:41:37 -0500

School is really important: Reading, writing, arithmetic. But what they tend to do is teach you reading, writing, arithmetic…then teach you reading, writing, arithmetic again. Then again, then again, just making it harder and harder just to keep you busy. And that’s where I think they messed up. There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education. No, REAL sex education class, not just pictures and illogical terms…There should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there’s not, their class is on…gym….Their class is like Algebra. we have yet to go a store and said, “Can I have X Y + 2 and give me my Y change back, thank you.” You know?…Like foreign languages. I think that they are important, but I don’t think it should be required. Actually, they should be teaching you English, and then teach you how to understand double talk, politician’s double talk. Not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and GERMAN. When am I going to Germany? I can’t afford to pay my rent in America! How am I going to Germany?

—Tupac, Age 17 On the Topic of Education, 1988.

"No one wants to be the person who is made fun of for caring too much about something, who treats in..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:41:18 -0500

“No one wants to be the person who is made fun of for caring too much about something, who treats in earnest a situation that everyone else considers absurd. Even in personal relationships, feeling too heavily invested while simultaneously understanding that the other person couldn’t be more detached is one of the most profound feelings of embarrassment we can experience. Because it isn’t simply the embarrassment of making a mistake or a poor choice, it’s a shame over the kind of human being you are and how you see the world around you. To be shamed for your sincerity is to be reminded that you are dependent on something which is not dependent on you — that you are, once again, vulnerable.”

- I Will Always Care Too Much (via theseasonofthewitch)

This is the most perfect description of me I have ever, ever read. (via shattersthemoon)

this one time i was in an org and the leader had become angry at me through a series of petty arguments. as a result, at the end of the year i got the “takes everything too seriously, even this award” award.

(via femmeney)

"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:40:25 -0500

“I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, “Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?” or “Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?” But you can’t say that at a cocktail party.”

- Paul Gilmartin, The Mental Illness Happy Hour (via magicfingers)

One of the reasons I hate socializing.

(via vidavivesinmi)

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:39:55 -0500

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”

- George Eliot

English novelist (1819 - 1880) - The Quotations Page
(via mudwerks)

"I don’t know the meaning of life. I don’t know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:39:50 -0500

“I don’t know the meaning of life. I don’t know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it’s a complete mystery.”

- Charles M. Schulz, Conversations (via ugh)

nevver: Exist cards

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:21:40 -0500

nevver:

Exist cards

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:21:28 -0500

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

- Mark Twain (via wellthatsjustgreat)

"Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:21:06 -0500

“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”

- George Gershwin (via i-hear-a-symphony)

nevver: 365 Days of Hand Lettering

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:20:54 -0500

nevver:

365 Days of Hand Lettering