January 2012
8 posts
Woman
she wanted to be a blade of grass amid the fields but he wouldn’t agree to be the dandelion she wanted to be a robin singing through the leaves but he refused to be her tree she spun herself into a web and looking for a place to rest turned to him but he stood straight declining to be her corner she tried to be a book but he wouldn’t read she turned herself into a bulb but he...
2012
People talk about burning bridges like it’s always a bad thing. What if a bridge just connects you to a place where you do not, never have, and won’t ever belong?
What if a bridge only links you to a place of loneliness, uncertainty, and imbalance - a place where human relationships are defined by what you can get out of someone, or vice versa? What if a bridge only links you to a...
October 2011
6 posts
“If I were God, I think I’d be too secure in Myself to worry much about...”
– Sean Padilla
“It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we...”
– ― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Quite fitting for the OWS debate
(via spokenbeats)
“A year ago, I would have said: Someone who loves me. Now I realize that I need...”
– Jaki Grier, on which qualities to look for in a lover
September 2011
5 posts
10x2 asked: i was directed (back)here by a friend who follows your blog. i find it difficult to see that i (and the woman who's photo you posted) have been characterized so negatively in such a public forum. regardless of what you want/seem to believe, while we were together i didnt cheat on you with anyone. even if you have been wronged, i ask that you act civilly and not air our differences this way....
Did You Score Radiohead Tickets For Roseland? Or... →
4 tags
“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply...”
– Maya Angelou
August 2011
6 posts
“Don’t go to the men – let them come to you, then RUN AWAY.”
– Advice from a friend, circa Winter 2006
1 tag
Ask me a question. →
I’ll post my answer for you.
July 2011
4 posts
“Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else...”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Don’t let things in life make you think being good is not good enough.”
– King Texas
“There is no such thing as a lover that is NOT courageous. It is a revolutionary...”
– Pierre Bennu
June 2011
12 posts
“If your wife is unhappy, the world can do without your songs.”
– Tori Kudo, Japanese composer & musician
“I’m not about to let people keep mistreating me just so that THEY can be...”
– Sean Padilla, total sweetheart, awesome friend, and rock star extraordinaire
Right Rides →
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Anonymous asked: what have you learned in the past 24 hours? past week? past year? past decade?
On Kreayshawn and the Utility of Black Women →
Her appropriative swag is yet another reminder (not that we needed any more this month) of how little black women are valued in our society, even in genres we co-create. In a moment where cool is synonymous with swag, a particular manifestation of black masculinity, Kreayshawn’s dismissiveness and denigration of black women animate her success.
Moya B. of Crunk Feminist Collective does...
“Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore?...”
– Susan Sarandon
classybroad asked: What's your favorite kind of candy bar?
May 2011
19 posts
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers...”
– Rumi
Anonymous asked: What is that? Velvet?
MonthlyInfo →
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Anonymous asked: I'm interested in knowing your thoughts of Tyler The Creator (if you are familiar with him). Like him or hate him, he is making huge waves.
The Latest:
http://stereogum.com/706042/tyler-the-creator-responds-to-tegan-sara/franchises/wheres-the-beef/
The Latest:
http://stereogum.com/706042/tyler-the-creator-responds-to-tegan-sara/franchises/wheres-the-beef/
Anonymous asked: name a person you would have killed if you could and it has to be someone you really know and you cant be all "im so positive i dont think about that on people"...and explain why they are worthy of death
“We can’t spend our whole lives worrying ourselves about what they’re...”
– from Liliane, a novel I’m reading right now by Ntozake Shange I told someone this once, but my phrasing of it was something more like “You can’t keep sitting around with your mouth poked out about whitey forever.”
