June 2012
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“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that...”
– Paulo Coelho (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
…story of my life…
(via mujerdorada)
so true
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I was born in an crystallized below the temperature cocoon The one who birthed me made it clear That I was going to be her supper that night I had 12 hours and 60 minutes to live My winged claws were tiny and helpless I was starving for skin contact and tender meat between my teeth I knew one thing: I wanted to live I begged this birth mother For her heart of stone to turn flesh I cried...
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JÖLIBIĿITÉ: Informed activism 101: The Power of... →
kambale:
In recent months, we have seen reports implicating Rwanda in supporting rebel groups in the Congo. This is not the first time the UN has documented such action by Rwanda. In the past both Rwanda and Uganda have been implicated in invading the Congo in 1996 and 1998,…
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DON’T YOU DARE STOP TRYING!!
I have been hearing it in my head and I felt like sharing…
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JÖLIBIĿITÉ: theafrosistuh: Brazilian prisoners are... →
theafrosistuh:
Brazilian prisoners are now able to shorten their sentences by reading books and writing essays
anticapitalist:
Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded federal penitentiary system a novel way to shorten their sentences: four days less for every book they…
I really would love to hear how this project turns out, because I believe books can change people, but if it can...
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“Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but...”
– - Wade Davis, Dreams from endangered cultures. (via engenderandendear)
FUCKIN’
THIS
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oh boy, this is dynamite. I have always hated whenever I hear the democratization (read the civilization) of other countries differently(yes, I don’t believe in underdevelopment)...
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“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via thus-spoke-mia)
some of us because of what they went through early in their lives, have stopped having such expectations.
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“Ma Négritude point n’est sommeil de la race mais soleil de l’âme, ma négritude...”
– Ma Négritude - Léopold Sédar SENGHOR (via jolibilite)
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
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Henry David Thoreau
(via leadingtone)
so so true
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Elegia Memnosyne: Fullness →
myelegia:
Last night I dreamt you laid beneath me Naked, in some cool and shaded place A silken white luminescence
Your eyes were affixed Not on me But on your hands Which floated along my body Searching, so you said For a piece of bone Protruding, To affix An anchor to You said you had dreamt…
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Watchdaughterofthediaspora:
this is the creepiest and most entertaining video I’ve watched tonight ahah.
the earth science teacher didn’t enforce the 12 inch rule and their bodies were touching because he saw how important it was to Melissia and to Ashton. *looks up at the audience* At that moment he decided to give Melissia an A.
—-WAIT. What?!
pure talent!!!!
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Arabic lesson of the day
fearlesslyraw:
remorsecode:
“Ya ibn kalb”
Roughly translates to “I’m fond of you” or “I am happy to be around you”
Arabs love when you say this to them, go try it out! Especially on the biggest Arab you can find with the most muscles. Especially if there’s a gang of them.
that’s so endearing…
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“… My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe. I...”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (via tooroughfingersoftheworld)
One of my all-time favourite quotes from one of my all-time favourite books from one of my all-time favourite authors.
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wow…
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deeeeeep as hell!
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this is...
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I want you and I to talk about the stuff of life. The tiny breaks she made when she threw those words at me. The year, the month, the day and the minute before those invasive bacteria took mon papa.
I want for that night. For that night to have been a dream. I want the power to have gone out like usual. I want that one to not have desired a bath that night. I want for mon petit frère to have been...
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