“ If we just take it, if we don’t speak up, they’ll think everything is okay, and everything is not okay. I have so many friends that are other races who are ridiculously talented and they have not worked in years. So it’s not enough just for me to have a job. I want everybody to work, so we need more people of color on television. ”
Yvette Nicole Brown (who plays Shirley on NBC’s Community) in a brief interview with Racebending.com (via racebending)
“ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one. ”
Voltaire (via girlinlondon)
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“ And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via fitzgeraldquotes)
Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. Itʼs how politicians peddle policy and how Madison Avenue sells us things that we donʼt need. Think about it. The fear of being attacked, the fear that there are communists lurking around every corner, fear that some little Caribbean country that doesnʼt believe in our way of life poses a threat to us. Fear that black culture may take over the world. Fear of Elvis Presleyʼs hips. Actually, maybe that one is a real fear. Fear that our bad breath might ruin our friendships… Fear of growing old and being alone. A fear that we’re useless and no one cares what we have to say.
“ At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (via fitzgeraldquotes)
“ We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ”
E.E. Cummings (via accidentalism)
Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. -Hemingway (by *Peanut (Lauren))
“ Why do some folks feel that transgender people need to disclose their history and their genitalia and non transgender people do not? When you first meet someone and they are clothed, you never know exactly what that person looks like. And when you first meet someone, you never know that person’s full history. Why do only some people have to describe themselves in detail—and others do not? Why are some nondisclosures seen as actions and others utterly invisible? Actions. Gwen Araujo was being herself, openly and honestly. No, she did not wear a sign on her forehead that said “I am transgender, this is what my genitalia look like.” But her killers didn’t wear a sign on their foreheads saying, “We might look like nice high school boys, but really, we are transphobic and are planning to kill you.” That would have been a helpful disclosure. ”
Law Center (via girl-violence)
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“ We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ”
Eduardo Galeano (via themostsophisticatedwoman)
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“ I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. ”
Langston Hughes (via beepbopboop)
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
- Hector, The History Boys, Alan Bennet
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“ I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. ”
Oscar Wilde (via nothingcannotexist)
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