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Audre Lorde, Poetry Is Not A Luxury (via sinidentidades)
gawd damn that’s deep. folks mus-appropriating Lorde can make you forget sometimes just how dope she really was though.
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I smiled + repeated everything she said.
Angela Davis, speaking TRUTH
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Favorite JJ.
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A lion decides he’s had enough of being photographed - and tries to steal a photographer’s camera. The lion and his pride had been followed by a film crew in Okavango Delta, Botswana, for days - and obviously decided it was time to have his turn behind the camera. The lion broke away from the pride and ran up to the camera before trying to drag the camera and tripod away. The photo was taken by British photographer and tour guide John Sobey, who runs horseback safaris for photographers throughout Botswana. He said: “He had a good look down the lens and we watched, amazed. It was only when he decided to try and bite them camera that the film crew got worried, and shouted at the lion, scaring him away.”
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An Israeli woman wearing a shirt that says “Death to Sudanese” as the debate over presence of African asylum seekers in Israel turns violent.
Only this week, on May 20, 2012, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned that the influx of African migrants is “threatening the fabric of Israeli society, its national security, and its national identity”, adding that if Israel doesn’t act to stop African migration “60,000 infiltrators are liable to become 600,000, and lead to the eradication of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.”
Speaking after the worst violence in Tel Aviv for years on May 23, 2012, Oscar Olivier, a Congolese migrant, said, “The question is not if they will kill an African because he is black, but when.”
racism in Israel runnin rampant
Zionism is racism under the guise of religion.
“Racist as I don’t know what!” Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, shouted on the Senate floor. “Racist. Prejudiced. Racist. That’s what we’ve got going on in this state now. Alabama is going backwards, to the racist Ku Klux times.”
Despite anger over the process, the House redistricting plan passed the Senate about 4 a.m., the Senate redistricting plan passed the House about 4:30 a.m., and the bills are headed to Republican Gov. Robert Bentley for his signature.
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Senate Democrats were furious over Republicans quickly starting a vote on the House redistricting plan before Democrats had a chance to ask that the bill be read in full. Throughout the early-morning session, Democrats had made clear their intention to ask for a full reading of the 605-page bill, which lawmakers said would have taken about 36 hours….
But Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, caught Democrats off guard by quickly calling for a final vote, Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, immediately accepted the motion, and the vote began. Democrats called for the bill’s reading less than 1 second after the vote had begun, but Republicans did not stop it then, or as Democrats continued to object, shouting and pounding on the Senate clerk’s desk as he called the name of each senator to receive their votes.
Marsh was unapologetic.
“You have to be on your toes in that chamber. That’s the process,” he told reporters after the vote. “Sen. Dial was on his toes. He saw a break in the action. He moved for passage. It was my job, at that point sitting in the chair, to ask for the roll call, and that’s exactly what I did.”
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The bill will increase the number of majority-black districts from 27 to 28.
However, the number of majority-white districts in which black people represent at least 25 percent of the population would fall from 11 to six, thus reducing the number of districts where black residents have significant influence.
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this country has been fuckd for so long, these politicians follow procedure before following common sense
Bama-Ala… Home sweet home.
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Certain things catch your eye,
But pursue only those that capture your heart
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Ethiopia kids showering in storm
what beautiful skin.
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Multiple exposure picture of Charlie Parker, 1955. Photo by Eliot Elisofon.
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“I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It`s a reality.”
“The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don`t know what my public image is. I have no idea.”
“I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.”
“I don`t think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.”
“We weren`t put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.”
“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.”
“Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.”
“I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that`s beautiful.”
Happy 48th Birthday to singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger, Leonard Albert “Lenny” Kravitz (b. May 26, 1964)
Oh Lenny…
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— dream hampton
This.
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A girl with a brain that never quiets down; thus I constantly spews thoughts, sounds, words, idea, and flights of fancy just to stay afloat. As much of an enigma as I am an exhibitionist- think of me as a random serial flasher, strolling down the block in a trench coat, tube socks, and dress shoes, whipping my coat open to those who dare to let their eye contact linger a bit longer than it should. Yeah Im sick like that... but you might like what you see.
La verdadera belleza latinoamericana.
