DanceFirst. ThinkLater.
Description
21.Artist/Dancer.
Senior BFA dance major at WSU.
Detroit born and bred.
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kitty-en-classe
"Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood."
(Source: kitty-en-classe, via igotpeace)
socialismartnature
Harlem: 26 cops arrest & beat one unarmed Black youth, slam him to ground, then stop legal filming by witnesses.
This was May 13 at 3:30pm in the 135th St station of the B/C. Note the one arresting officer repeatedly telling the other to “relax.” The young man being arrested puts his leg up just so they don’t slam his face into the wall. When I turned my camera to catch the officers streaming into the station, two of them came behind me and one officer (Mancebo?) pushed me out of the station and would not let me turn around. Afterwards, I counted twelve police cars around the station.
(via native-detroiter)
"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind."
churchjanitor
"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."
billidollarbaby
Solange for Complex Magazine June/July 2013
Check out the full interview
(via soulode)
"Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty.
And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full."
(via lovedomidee)
orange-wall
"So there must have been dozens of times that the word “nigger” was spoken in front of me before I reached the third grade. But I didn’t “hear” it until it was said by a small pair of lips that had already learned it could be a way to humiliate me. That was the word I went home and asked my mother about. And since she knew that I had to grow up in America, she took me in her lap and explained."
Gloria Naylor
I had to read her essay for English(that she wrote in 1986). A classy way to describe the word nigger and how it was/is used in the African American community. I respect that her mother kept the negative connotations from her as a child until necessary that she know, but with that being said, why are we still having to read about this? Why is the word “nigger” still such a controversial topic? It’s 2013 people, stop being offended by a word and stop relating it to such negative ideas. MOVE ON.
(via orange-wall)
This is the only stupid thing I saw in the Gloria Naylor tag.
And what is still incredible to me about white people (and probably will always be incredible to me) is that they can read the work of one of the most profound and incredible African American female novelists and not understand the writing at all. They just do not get it. Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, James Baldwin… nobody can help them.
They CANNOT comprehend anything that disrupts their white privilege or challenges white supremacist thought.
It is incredible to witness as a black English major and it’s also very scary. That you can read that excerpt and all you get out of it is that “nigger” is no longer a meaningful words and black folks should get over it.
Incredible.
Prayer circle for white folks.
(via daniellemertina)
“I had to read works by people of color telling the truth about white supremacy and white people’s complacency in it! Black people just need to get over it because I’m tired of hearing how they are dehumanized on a regular basis by white supremacy”
That’s pretty much what that fucker said.
“Why do we still read about this?”
Because those who do not learn from the fucking past will never learn.
Because fuck ass ideologies like the OPs exist.
THAT is why. Clearly they have learned NOTHING if that is their reaction.
You need to read more and more until it is burned in your fucking psyche.
(via sourcedumal) white people stahp (via native-detroiter)(via native-detroiter)
I don’t want to be
your entire world, no.
I would be happy
just to be your morning coffee,
your hanging car keys,
your wallet.
Something seemingly
insignificant,
but if lost throws off
your entire day.
(Source: lucyquin, via writteninmysoul)
Obviously obsessed with my hair today. #naturalhair
The fact that I can’t breath when I think about the Scandal finale is crazy. Look at what tv can do. But I am not ashamed. I love Keri Washington and Tony Goldwyn.
