a wordy way

dangercurls:

Oz!

Preach preacha!!!!!

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bad-dominicana: im a firm believer that children are born w a perfectly intact sense of autonomy, because ive come across too many babies who know all too well when someones fuckin up w their personal space. that is innate…and we strip and stamp it out of them. we collectively *work* to take it away and make them feel powerless.

Evolution Of A Queen:

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We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.

(On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)

Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com

- He raises a really great point. What would it mean to believe very early that my body was mine. That it’s not for anyone or for any particular purpose other than to be mine until I decide otherwise.

(via larepublicadedet)

I was damned near 30 before I could believe my body belonged to me & me alone. Dear people who take an issue with this,

Let the Smiths do right by their babies & shut the fuck up about how you think they should parent.

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tank you for this.

(via newmodelminority)

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rastagaljamaican:

livefromjerusalem:

Ethiopian Jews cry during a memorial service for the the martyrs of the Ethiopian community, 1992.

Today is not just Jerusalem Day - it is also the day of mourning for the 4,000 Ethiopian Jews who lost their lives on the dangerous journey from Ethiopia to Israel.

It’s surprising how many people don’t know about Black Jewish people.

Source: livefromjerusalem

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nevver:

Summer Night

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queennubian:

cosmicyoruba:

glossylalia:

entertainmentweekly:

Walking Dead fans: We’ve got your first look at Danai Gurira as unflinching warrior Michonne right here. If you’ve read the comics, does she live up to your expectations? If you haven’t — think this lady looks badass enough to win your heart?

YES YES YES YES Danai is super everything! YES. That is all. Also, YES.

YES!

I adore Danai!

THE AMOUNT OF WIN IS OVERWHELMING!!!!!

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dynamicafrica:

For his latest series, ‘An Economy of Grace’, Nigerian-American artist Kehinde Wiley features women as his subjects - a first in the history of his works.

Currently on show at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Wiley teamed up with another current artistic force and the man behind the recent surge in success for French label Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci, who designed the costumes for the subjects in all of Wiley’s pieces.

Read a Huffington Post interview with Wiley about this exhibition.

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Unfucking My Laundry.

unfuckyourhabitat:

put-away-your-harpoon:

I have these:

And this:

People have informed me that these two things somehow go together.

I will figure this out.

UPDATE:

UNFUCKED!

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If you come home,
I will love; I love already.
Can you tell?
Feel my intentions, I fear no
overload, no overdose.
No verse unfolded, unfairly.
I have love grazing
the roof of my mouth and chafing
the bottoms of my feet.
I eat it. I walk it.
In between I build our home
inside me.
And when you arrive to abide
with me, there is where I will be.
Atop a mountain, dug deep in the sea, afloat on the waters, or riding a cloud.
Love, all the same. Come home
to witness the thing.
I will love; I love already.
Can you tell?

april may b.

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Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

James Allen

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If I could make a room. A space. Cut apart for my personal purposes. I’d place it in a tree. No, better. Beneath that tree. Below, where the roots hang from my ceiling and spiral steps lead up to who don’t even know I’m there.

april may b.

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When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is growth, in fluidity — in freedom.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea (via aisha08)

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud (via annie-the-vegan)

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