February 2012
47 posts
I pray that God will bless you in everything that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can understand the problems of the world and where you fit into, in that world picture. And I pray that all of the fear that has ever been in your heart will be taken out…-Malcolm X
My life, my mistakes.
You still don’t understand? Throw the emptiness in your arms out into that space we breathe; maybe birds will feel the air thinning as they fly deeper into themselves. -Rilke
Love your artists. When they falter, hold them accountable. But love them. People are now showing Whitney Houston the love and respect she should have received throughout her career — through all of it. -Lauryn Hill
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My richness is life. -Bob Marley
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One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.
Imagine.
There is power in recognition.
“There is an oversimplification of the Negro. He is either pictured by conservatives as happy, picking his banjo, or by the so-called liberals as low, miserable, and crying. The Negro’s life is neither of these. Rather, it is in-between and above and below these pictures.” - Zora Neale Hurston
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ”you owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ― Hafiz of Shiraz
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I have loved stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night. -Galileo Galilei
You are searching the world for treasure but the real treasure is yourself. If you are tempted by bread you will find only bread. What you seek for you become.
-Rumi
