(Source: you-are-another-me)
Capitalism would have us believe that we only deserve to be here because of what we produce, and even in our counter- cultures, even in our movements we reproduce the same idea. We only deserve to be here because of what we can produce that other people will buy with their money, time or attention. Our experience of our own lives is secondary, it is only the means of production, it is the products that matter, and unless we make ourselves into both factories and widgets we are not valuable.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (via satyacake)
I Give Myself to You!
I’ve concluded that everything I go through contributes to my overall purpose. God has guided me through life thus far and has granted me my heart’s desires! I never dwelled on material things, but I harped on things greater than material worth. Like purpose, love, change, and progress! And God continues to equip me with everything I need to fulfill his work, which is imprinted on my soul. I walk it and I live it! Free-spirited, but completely trusting of my God! Because I FEEL his compassion and I EXPERIENCE his love on a daily basis. I love u Lord, and may my life be on Earth as you’ve foreseen it in heaven! I love u!! And I give my life to worship you, to guide your people, to bring change in favor of your will! And I pray that I do this in all the things that I’m a part of! Amen!
Spirituality!
I just turn to spirituality. You can’t go wrong if you base your decisions on what you feel in your heart through deep reflection! and peeling away of the layers of deception accumulated from dwelling in this temporal world. Like the constraints of Christianity… A lot of that stuff is deception in an effort to control the masses.
And you find evidence through the inaccuracy of the King James Version due to the extraction of certain books and the imperfect translations. Like it’s tainted by human flaw. But if your true and honest to yourself … You can find legitimate truth from within! That’s my belief!
Liya Kebede & David Agbodji for Vogue Japan April 2013 in The Vanishing Underground
Mercedes, 23
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Photographed by Sasha Kelley
Goodbye Black History Month
Racism is a disease that infects your blood.
You pass it down like an heirloom.
You breed it like pure bread canines
And u perpetuate it like good faith.
Respect our differences
We don’t have to be like each other
You use conformity like a weapon of mass destruction
Dangling it over my head in an intimidating effort to cease my individuality
You think your way is the best way you egocentric people
But your way is just one way…
I just want to be myself
Bathed in black
Doused in the peculiar individuality of my race
I am black
And I am proud
Oxford University students on why we need feminism
No More Meditation…for now
I’ve ceased my meditation because I’ve lacked the discipline to focus my mind on what matters. I’ve lost focus of the world around me by indulging in it. One cannot see while residing within what is to be seen. One must part from the world to see the world. And in the moment of my deepest, darkest thoughts…there will be clarity.
