February 2012
14 posts
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 19th
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“so Bill Moyer/Rita Dove compiled a list of young poets to watch so here’s my...”
– even with my name spelled wrong… i feel loved :) (via bonafiderojas)
Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 13th
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“Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.”
–  Oprah Winfrey
Feb 13th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
51 notes
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Feb 6th
243 notes
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“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of...”
– Gloria Naylor, Mama Day She must be talking about my girlfriends. (via caitsmeissner)
Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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January 2012
55 posts
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“#dear twitter: “they appear to glory in their chains”
–  James Baldwin
Jan 31st
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Jan 27th
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“MY LIFE IS A TYPO”
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Poems: Rosehips & Pied Piper (Audio) →
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“#oh twitter: i have looked for love in the hands of men with no arms.”
–  @MoBrowne
Jan 22nd
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Jan 20th
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“I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people,...”
– Eubie Blake
Jan 20th
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“O, God. Let us love, like they love…”
–  Aracelis Girmay
Jan 19th
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“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just...”
–  Sojourner Truth
Jan 18th
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and then
your skin, so close to the brittle bone; your hair is a ghost town haunted by his name; or maybe, just maybe, you are exorcising a demon — it smells like motown, it is an honest thing. here, you will know…everything the marrow desires.
Jan 18th
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
hunger
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Jan 17th
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“Ask me a question…Poetry, Life, Writing, Love…Bad Girls Club, Love...”
Jan 16th
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pith
i am writing. waiting for my soul to catch up with my thoughts. i think in iambic pentameters, haiku and pantoum. but i live in brooklyn. spread my self across a man’s hands and wait for his prayers. wait for my soul to catch up with the prayers of man that has no god. my god…there is something beautiful about a silent prayer. the mouth turned up, the eyelids closed. the lips ...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve...”
–  Billie Holiday
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”
– Toni Morrison
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“Art is an elastic sort of love.”
– Josephine Baker
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
–  Alice Walker
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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