"In this country, ‘American’ means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."
Toni Morrison (via raptivist)
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"When you start thinking for yourselves, you frighten them, and they try and block your getting to the public, for the fear that if the public listens to you then the public won’t listen to them anymore. And they’ve got certain Negroes whom they have to keep blowing up in the papers to make them look like leaders. So that the people will keep on following them, no matter how many knocks they get on their heads following them."
Malcolm X, ‘Confronting White Oppression’ (1965)
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"Some of you are graduating summa cum laude. Some of you are graduating magna cum laude. And some of you are graduating thank you laude."
PRESIDENT OBAMA, giving the commencement speech at Morehouse College (via CBS News)
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why the fuck cant we text the police
lets say there is a murderer in ur house and you’re hiding behind your sofa and you do have your phone with you but you can’t call the police because the murderer might hear you
(via blackantithesis)
The older I get the more I realise there are no grown ups and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.
(via blackantithesis)
do you ever just rub your eyes so hard that you just start entering some other fucking galaxy of swirls and patterns
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