April 2012
7 posts
Many white women have said to me, ‘We wanted black women and non-white women to...
– bell hooks, “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” (via loveyourchaos)
Funny how fallin’ feels like flyin’ for a little while.
– Jeff Bridges - Fallin’ & Flyin’ (via mrjoshua79)
…you hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs,...
– My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares (via sincerelynacia)
Juegas Todos Los Dias by Neruda
A nadie te pareces desde que yo te amo
Dejame tenderte entre guirnaldas amarillas
Quien escribe tu nombre con letras de humo entre las estrellas del sur?
Ah dejame recordarte como eras entonces, cuando aun no existias.
March 2012
39 posts
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person?
– Evelyn Waugh (via kari-shma)
I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re...
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via fleurishes)
indelible, adj.
That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top...
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary (via xxxhellomaria)
I’ll go out there and make my mistakes. I’ll fall down, get hurt, cry, laugh,...
– Anna Floyd (via kari-shma)
efforts
spindrift:
morning love coiled in each other’s sleep you kiss my forehead i kiss your forehead your nose your cheek it’s dark the sun creeps in and we’re wrapped like presents for each other in each other arm, arm, leg, leg tangled like satisfied shoelaces knots of “i love you”s in whispers and sighs groans of delight nuzzles and cuddles you are my pleasure plight.
The paradox: vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me and the...
– Brene Brown (via loveyourchaos)
You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a...
– (via journalofanobody)
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.
– Jane Fonda (via kari-shma)
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like...
– Satchel Paige (via kari-shma)
To love—is to see a man as God intended him, and his parents failed to make him....
– Marina Tsvataeva, journals 1919-20 (via leopoldgursky)
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture...
– bell hooks (via loveyourchaos)
” I heard your doing good, but you heard I am doing better”
And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t...
– Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)
January 2012
4 posts
If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
– Lemony Snicket (via floralnymph)
“When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where...
My new old fav
Love ridden, I’ve looked at you With the focus I gave to my birthday candles I’ve wished on the lidded blue flames Under your brow And baby, I wished for you Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed And I wanna crawl in with you But I cry instead I want your warm, but it will only make Me colder when it’s over So I can’t tonight, baby No, not baby’ anymore - if I...