Semma 53

No one is so eager to gain new experience as he who doesn’t know how to make use of the old ones. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (via tattoolit)

Touch pain with great curiosity. Jorie Graham, from “Daphne” (via the-final-sentence)

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liveunchained:

“Black women have been doubly objectified—as black, as women; under white supremacy, under patriarchy. It has been the task of Black women artists to transform this objectification: to become the subject commenting on the meaning of the object, or to become the subject rejecting the object and revealing the real experience of being.”

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MIchelle Cliff (via theangryblackwoman)

› Love, Locks, Laughter, Words, & Breath: I'm so conflicted by Kony 2012

locksandglasses:

Of course the first thing that came to mind is the whole white savior thing. They made being an activist look really cool in the video and there were not that many people of color who appeared on camera… just saying

Then of course I don’t want to be a hater. Ignoring oppressed people simply…