People loved you and left scars.
(via br1n77y)
My voice is in tune with a different language, another kind of music. It speaks of resistance, indignation, the just anger of those who are deceived and betrayed. It speaks, too, of the right to rebel against the ethical transgressions of which they are the long-suffering victims.
(via mujeristaxicana)
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
(via aboriginalnewswire)
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart
Of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants
The way it stops and starts
(via baapi-makwa)
Don’t be discouraged if you can’t make it to this or that rally or direct action…sooner or later the front line will be at your front door. We all need to hold each other up. The frontline is everywhere.
‘Politically correct’ is just a term assholes came up with so they can dismiss people who have the nerve to want to be respected. Demanding not to be stereotyped is not political correctness, it’s a human right, and you are not some hero for refusing to respect people’s right to be treated like humans.
Dion Beary (via loveyourchaos)
BRB, painting a mural of this quote on every single wall of my school
(via callingoutbigotry)
I want to thank you for never being there anymore. Your absence has forced me to find my own way.
How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?
(via stringsdafistmcgee)
The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
Martin Luther King Jr., “Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam,“ 1967
the MLK that’s never quoted; real reasons why he was assassinated
17 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes You Never Hear
(via kemetically-afrolatino)
(via black-culture)
A man has always wanted to lay me down, but never wanted to pick me up.
(via exorpiona)
Politicians and judges want us to believe progress came from their benevolence; we know it came from the struggle of working people against the politicians and judges
(via socialistworker)