May 2012
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“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
– Isadora Duncan (via languagemagic)
May 31st
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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany,...”
– The Kite Runner, Khaled Hossein (via v-intagekiss)
May 30th
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May 30th
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“Poetry is an intimate act. It’s about bringing forth something that’s inside...”
– Dorianne Laux, The Poet’s Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry (via monamade)
May 30th
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“Poetry turns all things to loveliness: it exalts the beauty of that which is...”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (A Defense of Poetry, 1821)
May 30th
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May 15th
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via pigeongrasse)
May 15th
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“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing...”
– Hafiz  (via transformfeminism)
May 7th
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“Dear Hip Hop. (stop) This shit has gone too far. (stop). Please see that...”
– Saul Williams, “Telegram” Studying…trying to stay motivated.  (via babyboygreen) Was listening to this on my way to the city; thought I’d reblog. (via babyboygreen) Perhaps we should not have encouraged them to use cordless microphones, for they have walked too far from the source and are...
May 3rd
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All space everything
So this weekend marks the 2012 Supermoon AND a meteor shower/Halley’s comet? Magic times indeed. http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/supermoon-may-outshine-meteor-shower Also —> Black hole caught snacking on a star:  http://is.gd/27GJ9m
May 3rd
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Kindred: An Online Dramatic Presentation... →
sweatbtwn: A dramatic audio adaptation of Kindred by Octavia Butler, starring Alfre Woodard as Dana and featuring Ruby Dee and Lynne Whitfield
May 2nd
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17 of 30 - Freewrite 5.1.12 (Affirmation)
Reposting from my poetry blog. I wrote this last night and I need to see it again, right now. riapoems: Please remember today, when the threads came together. Remember how it felt,the rush of blood to your head, the satisfaction, the peace, and most of all the expansiveness. You have all you need. Stop being afraid to fail. Realize that you have come far. Realize that miracles are in your past,...
May 2nd
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The Funkees - Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern... →
May 2nd
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“There is a syntax in dreams that I’m trying to get at in my poetry.”
– Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith in a Cave Canem conversation on poets and craft at the New School. (Me too. And this is going to be what I say to myself if I start to feel guilty for taking a nap :)
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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Make lots of mistakes ;) complexrex replied to your photoset: Revisiting some drawings/sketches from a couple of… Ok, how can I learn how to do this?
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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“What has happened in the world that has made it so that loving a dark-skinned...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin) I think about this when people like drake are praised for maybe, possibly, one time a few years ago, showing some attention to a black woman who was not light-skinned. (via whitney1016)
May 2nd
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