February 2013
8 posts
“Now like then this shimmer/that surrounds the body,/keeping it apart...”
– jaime shearn coan
Dear Self
justkindoffloating:
Fall upwards.
January 2013
10 posts
“Don’t name me the blessing that saves you from alone”
– — Kim Noriega (from 1960, Just Married, Three Months Pregnant)
“In Toni Morrison’s head
“White girls die first.
Which means I’m...”
– yona harvey
“every tourist is a native somewhere”
– jamaica kincaid
“…as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my...”
– June Jordan
December 2012
29 posts
#dear twitter:
let the happy be…let us find peace in the settling of our untidy things.
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified....”
– bell hooks
“An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.”
– nina simone
“No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed,...”
– bell hooks
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the...”
– June Jordan
A womanist:
Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless. — Alice Walker
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be...”
– Alice Walker
November 2012
21 posts
“#note to self: “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just...”
– alice walker
