November 2011
47 posts
I Provide by Nikki Giovanni →
From “Bicycles”
I am the stretch
The scratch
The way your shoulders
Shrug off sleep
I am the first note
Of the song you sing
The first beat
Of the rhythm you tap
The only high note
You reach
I am the ink
On your newspaper
The grounds
That make your coffee
The bread
That you will toast
I am your shoelaces
For your run
The towel for your sweat
The seat you recline against
As...
"Ego Tripping" →
I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light I am bad I sat on the throne drinking nectar with allah I got hot and sent an ice age to europe to cool my thirst My oldest daughter is nefertiti the tears from my birth pains created the...
“Tat my name on you so I know it’s real.”
– Drake ;; Free Spirit (via emilum)
“Your silence will not protect you.”
– Audre Lorde (via auctoritas)
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
– Audre Lorde (via eloquentandhonest)
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Love (And the Meaning of Love) by Nikki Giovanni
coffee-talk:
From “Bicycles”
I wanted to
But you couldn’t
I hoped
But you wouldn’t
I understood
Why we shouldn’t
So you declined
And we didn’t
But it would
Have been fun
If we would’ve
Love Sonnet XVII →
do not love you as if you were the salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you...
“We speak of art
with flaming passion
and then do work
void of compassion
...”
– Saul Williams (via king-eternal)
“God and pussy. Objects of desire and ill repute. Some’d rather seek up high,...”
– Saul Williams . (via mccha)
“I began to ask each time: ‘What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell...”
– Audre Lorde (via chibambo)
“To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not...”
–
Audre Lorde
(via sanajaved)
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
And they wonder why we say fuck the police....
“These things should be simple: 1. When, as an adult, you come come across...”
– John Scalzi (via lucy-vanpelt)
Common fking sense
(via crissle)
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Are we going to have to Occupy Capitol Hill for...
