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wakingupstronger: samanthamaee: Health: Drink plenty of...

Mon, 27 May 2013 21:29:45 -0400

samanthamaee:

Health:

Drink plenty of water.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.

Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

Live with the 3 E’s - Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy

Play more games.

Read more books than you did in 2010.

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

Sleep for 7 hours.

Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

Don’t over do. Keep your limits.

Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.

Dream more while you are awake.

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.

Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

Smile and laugh more.

You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

Call your family often.

Each day give something good to others.

Forgive everyone for everything.

Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

Try to make at least three people smile each day.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

Do the right thing!

Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

The best is yet to come.

Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

I absolutley love every single point in this post, I’m so glad i read this

french-loner: baw-bee: sophieonpage: thegoddamazon: I...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:50 -0400

french-loner:

baw-bee:

sophieonpage:

thegoddamazon:

I present the most badass gifset on Tumblr.

Legitimately turned on by this

This is the best thing.

chills everywhere

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:22:18 -0400

pradda: licens: wow I just think this is just the most...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:21:44 -0400

pradda:

licens:

wow I just think this is just the most beautiful thing

agreed

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Mon, 13 May 2013 17:41:19 -0400

queennubian: lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:05:57 -0400

queennubian:

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

I miss my grandma’s food…. ::tears::

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:47:03 -0400

inkah: ”Women must give birth, men have to be tattooed,” says...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:24:08 -0400

inkah:

”Women must give birth, men have to be tattooed,” says one Samoan tattoo song, expressing an age-old idea of equality between the sexes. Both must endure pain. In traditional Samoan society all young males had to be tattooed when they reached their late teens. Otherwise they were not considered real men. Nowadays, the custom is no longer general, but it is still associated with manhood and male prestige, and hugely popular.

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:19:19 -0400

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blackandkillingit: chicenoire: rocmysoul: i think i just...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:15:08 -0400

blackandkillingit:

chicenoire:

rocmysoul:

i think i just passed out-shes amazing!

Black Girls Killing It Shop BGKI NOW

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:08:30 -0400

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:08:03 -0400

eyan-j: sicosa: It was my friend’s mom’s birthday yesterday....

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:04:12 -0400

eyan-j:

sicosa:

It was my friend’s mom’s birthday yesterday. Both our moms are single parents and I started thinking about how strong they had to be for us. Then I started thinking about women of color in general. Being a PoC ain’t a walk in the park by itself, but add being a woman in a patriarchal society? Nahhh. I can’t imagine how hard it must be for women of color. AND THEN people have the nerve to call em out on being hard and growing a thick skin, telling them to smile and be happy n’ shit. Fuck outta here. Women that face all that bull and STILL manage to come out on top amaze me.

These thoughts inspired this piece. A black Wonder Woman.

this is dope as HELL.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:59:15 -0400

brain-food: Stop everything. Michel Ocelot’s Tales of the Night...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:58:08 -0400

brain-food:

Stop everything. Michel Ocelot’s Tales of the Night is on Netflix instant play! Keep in mind, its not your Disney-esque type of stories.

On a dark French night, a boy, a girl, and an avuncular man tell each other stories, looking through books and pulling up images from various cultures around the world. They discuss what kind of stories they want to act out. They want adventure, princes and princesses, love, death, and noble lessons learned, sometimes in straightforward ways, other times through twisty irony. Other times, the storytellers are motivated by a location, a hairstyle or a costume that catches their attention. Maybe they want an animal companion or a certain kind of music. They imagine themselves across cultures, across races, in very different characters and stories, smoothly walking miles in shoes unlike their own.

They’re in complete control of the worlds they create. And what beautiful worlds they are. Ocelot animates it all through simple silhouette figures, the puppet-like people playing out their actions before vivid colors and kaleidoscopic backdrops that form lush jungles, shiny gold cities, dank dungeons and dark woods. The seemingly simple style of animation is deceptively intricate, effortlessly creating whole universes out of big, bold uses of color and geometrical shapes carefully arranged within the frame. It’s a style of animation that’s been around since the earliest days of cinema.

It is absolutely beautiful to watch.

knowledgeequalsblackpower: invisiblelad: thewhitemankilledthetr...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:56:23 -0400

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

invisiblelad:

thewhitemankilledthetruth:

thewhitemankilledthetruth:

As soon as Bridges got into the school, white parents went in and brought their own children out; all teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. They hiredBarbara Henry, fromBoston,Massachusetts, to teach Bridges, and for over a year Mrs. Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.” That first day, Bridges and her adult companions spent the entire day in the principal’s office; the chaos of the school prevented their moving to the classroom until the second day. Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her;^[7]because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched byPresident Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, only allowed Ruby to eat food that she brought from home. Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.^[8]

Child psychiatrist Robert Colesvolunteered to provide counseling to Bridges during her first year at Frantz. He met with her weekly in the Bridges home, later writing a children’s book,The Story of Ruby Bridges, to acquaint other children with Bridges’ story.

The Bridges family suffered for their decision to send her to William Frantz Elementary: her father lost his job, and her grandparents, who weresharecroppers in Mississippi, were turned off their land. She has noted that many others in the community both black and white showed support in a variety of ways. Some white families continued to send their children to Frantz despite the protests, a neighbor provided her father with a new job, and local people babysat, watched the house as protectors, and walked behind the federal marshals’ car on the trips to school.^[5]^[9]

Honestly, never once when I was in school did anyone ever talk about what happened to Ruby after that first day, how horrible her experience was and how horrible people were too her.

I hope all of them suffered greatly at their deaths.

I’m glad this post is going around again so people can understand something about our “post-racial” society.

All those people that threatened this little girl?

Most of them are still alive.

They had children an grand kids they passed their hate too.

They had jobs - like teaching, medicine, banking, law enforcement, real estate - where they could use their leverage over non-white people to make their lives hell.

They could’ve taught their bigoted employees to do the same thing.

Racism doesn’t just go away because you want to think it did, white people and kool-aid sipping negroes.

Racism goes away when you systemically address every facet of it in our society and fucking eradicate it.

And too many of you are too concerned about YOUR feelings to sit down and have that conversation.

So we had to turn it into a lecture, one you’re not listening too, one you didn’t read the materials for before showing up, one you insist on derailing with stupid questions and notions you refuse to challenge.

Grow up.

There have been a few iconic pictures from the civil rights movement around lately that like this one indicate the rancor and hate segregationists were willing to dump on little black girls when they threatened the “social fabric”. This little girl was educated for an entire year by herself. The fine community removed their children from the school because of the threat this child and others like her represented. I’ve always been powerfully moved/disturbed by what black people my parents age must have endured during this period of integration , but as always I find that the more light that is shed on the dominant culture/ white people’s reactions to it in many parts of the South, the more gruesome the picture becomes.

And it was soccer moms and shit out there! Like.. SOCCER MOMS.. stay-at-home-moms…. these people that we think of as “docile” or something.. these same women, were out there yelling, spitting, and throwing rocks at little Black children.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:50:56 -0400

blackfashion:

Versace, Zara, Marc jacobs

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