April 2012
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TONIGHT: Know Your Rights Workshop hosted by the...
The People’s Self Defense Campaign (PSDC) of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is hosting a Know Your Rights Workshop on Friday, April 27th from 6:30-8:00PM. The workshop will be held at Freebrook Academy located at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11233 (corner of Decatur Street). Take the A or C train to Utica Avenue.
This is a free and open workshop for MXGM members and community...
they slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via dreamhampton1)
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we are sudden stars / you and i exploding in / our blue black skins
– sonia sanchez
(in honor of poem in your pocket day, i’ll share the following haiku with y’all. it’s one of my favorites and i’m carrying it with me today)
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When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same...
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea (via aisha08)
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Angela Davis - The Prison Industrial Complex (17... →
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Angela Davis - The Prison Industrial Complex (17 parts all MP3 files) 01 - On Becoming An Activist.mp3 02 - Race, Class & Incarceration.mp3 03 - Young Black Men & Prison.mp3 04 - Technologies Of Punishment.mp3 05 - The Specter Of Crime.mp3 06 - Political…
Zadie Smith On Writing →
dreamhampton1:
1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you…
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I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I...
– June Jordan
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love
and
blessings
that stretch
as wide
as
the
moon’s orbit.
real shit.
~ Nadia Alexis ♥
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Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ You can’t ask a mother to...
– Angela Davis (via shedsumlight)
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day three.
warsanshire:
you’ll have to be careful,
my otherness
will spoil you
ruin you
after me, all else will taste
redundant.
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eager fingers interlocking
feather-light kisses
smiles and warm embraces
fleeting encounters in the sun
spring is here.
~ Nadia Alexis ♥
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
– Abraham Maslov (via heartmindspirit)