Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
Nayyirah Waheed (via bl-ossomed)
Quotes
I’m interested in having people of color at the center of their own lives. We don’t need to be saved by anyone. We do not need to have anyone sweeping in on a white horse or someone saving the day or assisting us in our own narrative.
Ava DuVerney (on not being interested in making a “white savior” film)
White saviors, read this.
We don’t need you.
We aren’t props for your image.
We see right through you.
(via thisiseverydayracism)
People who are invested in “equality’ will acknowledge the ways in which we are unequal and not ignore our differences, but acknowledge them and celebrate them. The first step to getting there is recognizing how you benefit from the oppression of others.
If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
We
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.
Nayyirah Waheed, “Meditation” (via dwightkschrute)
He knew me by heart. It infuriated me that he knew me by heart.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (via lipstick-bullet)
You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.
(via intractably)
Don’t apologize for being white, don’t apologize for being cis. Just realize that tumblr is one of the few places where minority voices aren’t silenced by cis white people in power who have historically edited and silenced the voices of marginalized minorities for their comfort.
In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn white people’, they aren’t saying ‘Oh I think they are inferior, I want to humiliate them, abuse them, enslave them and wipe out their people!’, they’re saying ‘Damn, after a couple hundred years of white people thinking I’m inferior, humiliating me, abusing me, enslaving me, and trying to wipe out my people, I don’t wanna deal with them.’ The context is completely different.
(via heterophilia)
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Kahlil Gibran (via purplebuddhaproject)
“Get a better job,” they said.
Suddenly, every custodian everywhere quits their job and gets a better one. Now, upon entering public restrooms, everyone is handed a spray bottle and toilet brush, because now they have to scrub their own shit out of that public porcelain throne. Women’s restrooms come complete with plastic bags, because they have to bring their soiled period products home with them and dispose of them at home, because there is no more public waste removal.
“Get a better job,” they said.
All fast food employees quit and find a “better job”. No more fast food places! There also aren’t any restaurants. Better learn to cook your own shitty garbage burgers. You have only yourself to yell at if you forget the cheese.
“Get a better job,” they said.
Retail stores no longer have any employees. All shopping must be done online, but you have to drive out and pick up the supplies yourself because the Fedex people quit and got better jobs, too.
“Just get a better job,” they said!
You now have to grow and make every single thing you ever consume for the rest of your life, because no one wants to do it for you at $7 an hour.
Fuck you.
A la Keke (via stephanietorno)
“The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it.” — Michael Rivero
(via riversofgold)