It’s okay to live a life others don’t understand.
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Quotes
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf (via larmoyante)
Your skin color doesn’t offend me, your arrogance does. Your pale skin doesn’t cause me disgust, your entitlement does. Your complexion doesn’t bother me, your need to tell me what I need and then feel oppressed when I don’t need your help does.
Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.“
Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.
Assata Shakur’s autobiography (via whitegirlsaintshit)
Women are considered fragile but I’ve never seen anything as easily wounded as a man’s ego.
(via tea-storm)
If a person always leaves you with mixed feelings, uncertainty and an unsettled mind, you don’t need to place your energy there.
Reyna Biddy (via kushandwizdom)
Rachel,
the world is full of men
who would pick you apart and call it kindness.
Men who would criticize you down to your ankles
and then turn around to say that you worry too much
about your appearance.Men who would consider themselves more important
than your career goals
but also belittle you for not having career goals.
Men who would complain about your past
and then put themselves in the way of your future.The world is full of men
who would confuse obsession with romance.
Men who would make a meal out of the core of you
and call it love.Men who would lay your flaws out like a banquet
and then shove them in your face.Men who would say they love you in spite of you.
Rachel, the world is full of Ross Gellers.
“Rachel, Get On The Plane” Trista Mateer (12 of 30)
Don’t you dare
Shrink yourself
For someone else’s comfort –
Do not become small
For people who refuse to grow.
m.v., Advice to my future daughter, #2.
It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — and celebrate your struggle.
Neale Donald Walsch (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
I love late night conversations, late night drives, late night snacks, late night showers, everything’s better at night.
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