July 2011
81 posts
“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
– Sula, Toni Morrison. (via theangryblackwoman)
“In Wyoming the Bodhisattvas have turned to stone
They stand like rock walls,...”
– Diane di Prima, from Wyoming Series (via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin)
LatiNegr@s: Susana Baca becomes Peru's first black... →
lati-negros:
h/t superhussy
Singer, known as the voice of Afro-Peruvian music tradition, given culture portfolio by president-elect Ollanta Humala
Susana Baca won a Latin Grammy in 2002 for an album she recorded nearly 20 years earlier in Cuba. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
Peru’s…
“In the way that I use the term, God is the energy and intelligence that created...”
– Andrew Cohen. (via theasefountain)
“Look
on me and be
renewed”
– from “I am A Black Woman” Happy Belated Birthday Mari Evans. Thanks for the reminder Ruby Sales!!! <3 (via blackfeminismlives)
“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven)
Beautiful Afrique: Dogon →
fyeahafrica:
The Dogon is an ethnic group in the central plateau region of Mali, South of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region. The Dogon are best known for their mask dances, wooden sculpture and architectural work. The area is one of Mali’s major tourist attractions….
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“i am unfuckwitable, unforgettable, one tough miracle.”
– jay electronica (via blackfeminismlives)
“Witchcraft is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of observation. We work with...”
– Zsuzsanna Budapest (via griotnomad)
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that...”
– Pablo Picasso (via colourcollision)
Gorgeousness from Pablo Picasso
(via jonubian)
“When you’re unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via slaughterhouse90210)
"The Sea is History" Derek Walcott
dismantlingwhattheheartknows:
Exodus. Bone soldered by coral to bone, mosaics mantled by the benediction of the shark's shadow, that was the Ark of the Covenant. Then came from the plucked wires of sunlight on the sea floor the plangent harps of the Babylonian bondage, as the white cowries clustered like manacles on the drowned women, and those were the ivory bracelets of the Song of...
