April 2011
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We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full...
– Ralph Bunche, the first black recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (via taiu)
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Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around...
– Kent Nerburn (via source, crashinglybeautiful)
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“Hope: the following page. Do not close the book. “I have turned all the pages of the book without finding hope.” “Perhaps hope is the book.”
― Edward Jabes, from the poem “Drawn Curtains” (via septembrist)
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Kanye West’s 2011 Coachella performance
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Apparently after Harry glanced back at Kate...
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A consistent proof that religion is man-made and anthropomorphic can also be...
– Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (via bonedust)
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness...
– Fernando Pessoa (via periferie)
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I am Learning to Abandon the World by Linda Pastan
I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends. I have given up melodic lines of hills, moving to a flat, tuneless landscape. And every night I give my body up limb by limb, working upwards across bone, towards the heart. But morning...
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I would like to be Bond.
– Olivia Wilde, when asked whether she would like to be the next Bond girl. (via julzt)
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…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it’s rather...
– William Faulkner
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BRIAN BOUCHER: What’s your background? Did you go to art school? How did that work out? HENNESSEY YOUNGMAN: You mean like, what I did in the past that gave me the experiences that would be considered relevant to my videos? I don’t really know, I’ve been a limo driver, I’ve cleaned houses, I’ve been a guard at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, oof … Let me tell you, there is nothing more painful...
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I don’t understand a culture that punishes women for the slight transgression...
– Ally Millar
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Beauty can be as isolating as genius or deformity.
– Richard Avedon (via beautilation)
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from my poem by Lucille Clifton
I was born in a hotel, a maskmaker. my bones were knit by a perilous knife. my skin turned around at midnight and I entered the earth in a woman jar. I learned the world all wormside up and this is my yes my strong fingers; I was born in a bed of good lessons and it has made me wise. (via awritersruminations)
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