Young Girl..Old Soul

Process.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:33:42 -0400

Life’s all about the process. Being patient with yourself is so important. Giving yourself time to heal and to grow in different seasons. You can’t rush the process. All great things take time. Being strong is nice, but we must allow ourselves to feel pain as well. If we never felt pain we wouldn’t be able to appreciate the better things in life. Pain helps us to grow. Everything in life has a process. Seed, time and harvest.

blackpoemusic: Southern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:32:06 -0400

blackpoemusic:

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol

wisdomaswater: #wisdom

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:31:12 -0400

wisdomaswater:

#wisdom

soulbrotherv2: On this date, June 18, in 1953, Martin Luther...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:30:45 -0400

soulbrotherv2:

On this date, June 18, in 1953, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in Marion, Alabama.

It was in Boston that I met and fell in love with the attractive singer Coretta Scott, whose gentle manner and air of repose did not disguise her lively spirit. I had met quite a few girls in Boston, but none that I was particularly fond of.

I was about to get cynical. So I asked Mary Powell, a friend from Atlanta who was also a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, “Do you know any nice, attractive young ladies?”

Mary Powell introduced us and I was fortunate enough to get Coretta’s telephone number. We met over the telephone: “This is M. L. King, Jr. A mutual friend of ours told me about you and gave me your telephone number. She said some very wonderful things about you, and I’d like very much to meet you and talk to you.”

We talked awhile. “You know every Napoleon has his Waterloo. I’m like Napoleon. I’m at my Waterloo, and I’m on my knees. I’d like to meet you and talk some more. Perhaps we could have lunch tomorrow or something like that.”

She agreed to see me. “I’ll come over and pick you up. I have a green Chevy that usually takes ten minutes to make the trip from B.U., but tomorrow I’ll do it in seven.”

She talked about things other than music. I never will forget, the first discussion we had was about the question of racial and economic injustice and the question of peace. She had been actively engaged in movements dealing with these problems.

After an hour, my mind was made up. I said, “So you can do something else besides sing? You’ve got a good mind also. You have everything I ever wanted in a woman. We ought to get married someday.”

I didn’t want a wife I couldn’t communicate with. I had to have a wife who would be as dedicated as I was. I wish I could say that I led her down this path, but I must say we went down it together because she was as actively involved and concerned when we met as she is now.

I told my mother, “Coretta is going to be my wife.” On June 18, 1953, we were married. Although we had returned to Marion to be married by my father on the Scotts’ spacious lawn, it was in Boston that we began our married life together. [Excerpt from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.]

iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou: katswhiskers: iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou: It confuses me when...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:28:45 -0400

iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:

katswhiskers:

iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:

It confuses me when parents tell their daughters that their male friends can’t come to sleepovers like do they think they’re going to have sex with them IN FRONT OF ALL THEIR OTHER FRIENDS?

ORGY, IT’S CALLED AN ORGY

Ah yes, I participated in many orgies when I was 12.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:27:24 -0400

howtobeterrell: deathoftheglitternails: jonesydaking: a...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:27:07 -0400

howtobeterrell:

deathoftheglitternails:

jonesydaking:

a better time

SO LONG AGO

Sorry to say but this is when Kanye had his mother. Look at that fine nubian Princess. A fashion designer. Kanye this girl should be your wife and mother of your child. no slut shame to Kim but she just aint worthy….

Im mad at you

commonwhtgirl: aknai: Hahaha 69 Awesome…….

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:19:45 -0400

commonwhtgirl:

aknai:

Hahaha 69

Awesome…….

hellophilly: people Luv your hair. more pics from Odune Day...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:19:00 -0400

hellophilly:

people Luv your hair.

more pics from Odune Day at http://hellofilly.blogspot.com/

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:18:03 -0400

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:17:53 -0400

blackfashion: studded mustard

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400

blackfashion:

studded mustard

"Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a great deal to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:16:05 -0400

“Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a great deal to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.”

- (via fawun)

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:15:38 -0400

louiskanethe13th: The Game - The Documentary Album Shoot...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:15:29 -0400

louiskanethe13th:

The Game - The Documentary Album Shoot 2004

Photo by: Jonathan Mannion

juliana-samantha: precious

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:14:56 -0400

juliana-samantha:

precious

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:14:47 -0400

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:14:46 -0400

fuckyeaafricans: Congo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:14:34 -0400

fuckyeaafricans:

Congo

"you blush like an ocean in love. wild with blueness."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:13:48 -0400

“you blush like an ocean in love.
wild with blueness.”

- yemanja, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)