a beautiful disaster

blissful-dreamm: ♡i follow back♡

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:29:38 -0400

blissful-dreamm:

♡i follow back♡

Just because

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:23:03 -0400

Just because

cavetocanvas: Tauba Auerbach, Static 16, 2009

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:18:47 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Tauba Auerbach, Static 16, 2009

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:51:02 -0400

Happy anniversary

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:26:47 -0400

Six months of commitment and monogamy…I’m amazed at what I’ve learned and the growth we’re both embracing…i decided I’d never fall in love again, only flourish in it…and that’s exactly what we’re doing…who you love is a reflection of all that you are and our reflections are beautiful, to say the least…

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:13:50 -0400

cometsofdoom: nightchi1d: Girl’s night out. You go get...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:30:23 -0400

cometsofdoom:

nightchi1d:

Girl’s night out.

You go get ‘em !

MAKE ME ADMIT STUFF

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:39:51 -0400

1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?
2. You talked to an ex today, correct?
3. Have you taken someones virginity?
4. Is trust a big issue for you?
5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently?
6. What are you excited for?
7. What happened tonight?
8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted?
9. Is confidence cute?
10. What is the last beverage you had?
11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?
12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?
13. What are you gonna do Saturday night?
14. What are you going to spend money on next?
15. Are you going out with the last person you kissed?
16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months?
17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?
18. The last time you felt broken?
19. Have you had sex today?
20. Are you starting to realize anything?
21. Are you in a good mood?
22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks?
23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s?
24. What do you want right this second?
25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy?
26. Is your current hair color your natural hair color?
27. Would you be able to date someone who doesn’t make you laugh?
28. What was the last thing that made you laugh?
29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now?
30. Does everyone deserve a second chance?
31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy you were talking to?
32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do?
33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda?
34. Listening to?
35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore?
36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is?
37. Do you believe in love at first sight?
38. Who did you last call?
39. Who was the last person you danced with?
40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed?
41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?
42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today?
43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of a crush?
44. Do you tan in the nude?
45. If you could, would you take back your last kiss?
46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night?
47. Who was the last person to call you?
48. Do you sing in the shower?
49. Do you dance in the car?
50. Ever used a bow and arrow?
51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?
52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?
53. Is Christmas stressful?
54. Ever eat a pierogi?
55. Favorite type of fruit pie?
56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?
57. Do you believe in ghosts?
58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?
59. Take a vitamin daily?
60. Wear slippers?
61. Wear a bath robe?
62. What do you wear to bed?
63. First concert?
64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart?
65. Nike or Adidas?
66. Cheetos Or Fritos?
67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?
68. Favorite Taylor Swift song?
69. Ever take dance lessons?
70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?
71. Can you curl your tongue?
72. Ever won a spelling bee?
73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy?
74. What is your favorite book?
75. Do you study better with or without music?
76. Regularly burn incense?
77. Ever been in love?
78. Who would you like to see in concert?
79. What was the last concert you saw?
80. Hot tea or cold tea?
81. Tea or coffee?
82. Favorite type of cookie?
83. Can you swim well?
84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?
85. Are you patient?
86. DJ or band, at a wedding?
87. Ever won a contest?
88. Ever have plastic surgery?
89. Which are better black or green olives?
90. Opinions on sex before marriage?
91. Best room for a fireplace?
92. Do you want to get married?

mangermescouleurs: Inti

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:27:55 -0400

mangermescouleurs:

Inti

etrebarclay: “Ghetto Musik” - Outkast #FeelingGoodFeelingGreat

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:08:14 -0400

etrebarclay:

“Ghetto Musik” - Outkast #FeelingGoodFeelingGreat

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is..."

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:17:52 -0400

““Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something—and it is only such love that can know freedom.””

- Jiddu Krishnamurti (via love-frequency)

groove-theory: Raphael Saadiq featuring D’Angelo-Be Here

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:16:36 -0400

groove-theory:

Raphael Saadiq featuring D’Angelo-Be Here

5thdimensionresident: kushandwizdom: Click here for the best...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:15:46 -0400

5thdimensionresident:

kushandwizdom:

Click here for the best collection of quotes

Motivation.

souljunkee: le-kif-kif: The truth in Kanye’s anti-prison...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:08:28 -0400

souljunkee:

le-kif-kif:

The truth in Kanye’s anti-prison rap

The backdrop to Kanye West’s “Saturday Night Live” performance was a lie. Projected behind the rapper, as he let loose with two rage-filled and politically fueled tracks, were the words “Not For Sale.”

Yeezy wouldn’t have graced the set if he wasn’t hawking a soon-to-be released LP. But his incendiary performance was peppered with damning truths: Angry and pointed condemnations of institutional racism and the prison industrial complex, which disproportionately jails young men of color to fill state budget holes and enrich private corporations.

In the final verse of “New Slaves,” a track released Friday with the coordinated projection of a video on 66 buildings worldwide, and the second performance in his “SNL” set, West raps:

Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryn’a lock niggas up
They tryn’a make new slaves
See that’s that private owned prison
Get your piece today

Condensed and reduced to flow in rhyming verse, West’s lyrics smack of the conspiratorial. But he is correct: The War on Drugs, abetted by and fueling the private prison industry, currently serves to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of black men in the United States, who provide dirt-cheap labor. Various industries — from call centers to weapons manufacturers to retail companies — rely on prison labor. Private prisons pay inmate workers as little as 25 cents an hour; prisoners who refuse to work are regularly held in isolation. These are the de facto “new slaves” of the prison industrial complex. The CCA (the Corrections Corp of America) is one of two major private prison corporations (along with the GEO Group) that share in a market worth $70 billion.

And West’s implication that the CCA and the DEA are “tryn’a” lock up black people, leaving racist intentionality aside, is supported by troubling statistics. While the entire U.S. population is only 13.6 percent black, 40 percent of its vast prison population (over 2.5 million) is black. In 2010, black males were incarcerated at the rate of 4,347 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents of the same race and gender, compared to 678 inmates per 100,000 for white males. The disparities are striking, especially when the majority of those held in U.S. prisons are guilty of minor drug offenses. This brings us to Kanye’s reference to the DEA.

As attorney and author John W. Whitehead pointed out in a HuffPo comment piece last year, states specifically opted to make sentencing laws for minor drug offenses harsh in order to fill private prisons — prisons which promised to fill gaping holes in state budgets:

[W]ith an eye toward increasing its bottom line, CCA has floated a proposal to prison officials in 48 states offering to buy and manage public prisons at a substantial cost savings to the states. In exchange, and here’s the kicker, the prisons would have to contain at least 1,000 beds and states would have agree to maintain a 90 percent occupancy rate in the privately run prisons for at least 20 years. The problem with this scenario, as Roger Werholtz, former Kansas secretary of corrections, recognizes is that while states may be tempted by the quick infusion of cash, they “would be obligated to maintain these (occupancy) rates and subtle pressure would be applied to make sentencing laws more severe with a clear intent to drive up the population.” Unfortunately, that’s exactly what has happened. Among the laws aimed at increasing the prison population and growing the profit margins of special interest corporations like CCA are three-strike laws (mandating sentences of 25 years to life for multiple felony convictions) and “truth-in-sentencing” legislation (mandating that those sentenced to prison serve most or all of their time).

As has been well-documented, young black men are disproportionately targeted by police for marijuana arrests. In New York City, for example, nearly 90 percent of the people arrested for marijuana possession are blacks and Latinos. The logic is simple: If states rely on minor drug arrests to fill privately run prisons, and young black men are targeted in minor drug arrests, then states rely on young black men to fill private prisons.

Or, as Yeezy put it: “See that’s that private owned prison/Get your piece today.”

AWESOME!!!

EXACTLY how I felt and tried to blog about the day after hearing the song but better researched! haha

"Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised..."

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:04:11 -0400

“Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.”

- Waziyatawin (via laborreguitina)

salvadorans

(via lasiguanaba)

This is so fucking real and true.

(via blackinasia)

RE-FUCKING-BLOG.

(via couscousking)

dcbebloggin: iridessence: Oh my god Who did this little...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:03:23 -0400

dcbebloggin:

iridessence:

Oh my god

Who did this little beautiful chocolate person come from?! From the bottom of my heart I thank you.

My womb!!

color-me-bad: theratchetslayer: Hmm. I was just having this...

Thu, 30 May 2013 18:24:04 -0400

color-me-bad:

theratchetslayer:

Hmm.

I was just having this conversation with my cousin yesterday

The “victor” writes “history”

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Mon, 27 May 2013 19:43:06 -0400

2damnfeisty: blackbeautyoftheday: shinamujunai: http://missmik...

Mon, 27 May 2013 19:41:54 -0400

2damnfeisty:

blackbeautyoftheday:

shinamujunai:

http://missmikopete.deviantart.com/art/Royal-Jewels-TIANA-367900338

Princess Tiana (First Black Disney Princess)

this is gorgeous.

soundsthathaveasound: $outh$ide - Trinidad Jame$ I get it how I...

Sun, 26 May 2013 19:52:13 -0400

soundsthathaveasound:

$outh$ide - Trinidad Jame$

I get it how I live it cause I spit it like a G/ I get ignant when I’m in it cause we winnin’, can’t you see?