(Source: conflictingheart, via -thedaydream)
“It cannot be taken lightly that white men are in control of the record industry as a whole (even with a few black entrepreneurs), and control what images get played. Young white suburban males are the largest consumer of hip-hop music. So performance of black masculinity (or black sexuality as a whole) is created by white men for white men. And since white men have always portrayed black men as sexually dangerous and black women as always sexually available (and sexual violence against black women is rarely taken seriously), simplistic representations of black sexuality as hyper-heterosexual are important to maintaining white supremacy and patriarchy, and control of black bodies.
Black people are merely the unfortunate middlemen in an exchange between white men. We consume the representations like the rest of America. And the more that black people are willing to accept these representations as fact rather than racist fiction, the more heightened homophobia in our communities tends to be.”
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Kenyon Farrow - Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black???
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.” — Jaime Gil de Bieda
(Source: light-essence, via hollykerchner)
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Reply to the Question: “How can You Become a Poet?”
take the leaf of a tree
trace its exact shape
the outside edges
and inner lines
memorize the way it is fastened to the twig
(and how the twig arches from the branch)
how it springs forth in April
how it is panoplied in July
by late August
truly.
(Source: taquisha, via blck-grrl)
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins
(Source: kari-shma, via booklover)
“Because equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition it is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman that is confronted with it. We NEED equality. Kinda now.” — Joss Whedon when asked why he writes strong female characters.
(Source: itscandidlycara, via newwavefeminism)
“In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of tranquility.” — Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin
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