April's Flowers

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:25:09 -0400

I never truly understood tears of joy until my spirit lost something and then found it again. ♥

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:17:00 -0400

I never truly understood tears of joy until my spirit lost something and then found it again. ♥

"If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:04:27 -0400

““If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.””

- Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)

"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:52:03 -0400

““One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.””

- ― Henry David Thoreau

It is an amazingly beautiful thing to stumble upon someone who speaks your language when you thought...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:36:47 -0400

It is an amazingly beautiful thing to stumble upon someone who speaks your language when you thought you were the only one. ♥

"I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:33:56 -0400

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

- Tupac Shakur (via nezua)

"You did not understand what I am: I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:32:38 -0400

“You did not understand what I am: I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious, I am a painter. I am simply I am.””

- Frida Kahlo in a letter to Diego Rivera (via openroadmedia)

crankyskirt: Nought may endure but mutability.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:31:48 -0400

crankyskirt:

Nought may endure but mutability.

10 Things to Ask a Stranger by Safia Elhillo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:13 -0400

10 Things to Ask a Stranger by Safia Elhillo:

funksflo:

dreamsister:

1.

What secret could you tell me
That would scrap away the glossy beauty of your anonymity
And make you commonplace, familiar.
What facts make you three-dimensional
Which parts of you do I get acquainted with
To know enough of who you are
That I fall out of love with the possibility of you.
What is your name?

2.

What characters has your body played in your story?
Did you let your heart be narrator, omniscient,
Distant, seeing all but never interacting?
Or were your hands protagonists, heroic,
Smooth and strong.
How do you set your mouth before you lie?
Where do your eyes go after you tuck them behind your eyelids?
What songs curl themselves to sleep
In the soft hairs at the nape of your neck?

3.

Do you know how beautiful you are?
How beautiful do you know you are?
Do you think you are?
What mirrors measured the allegiance
Between your face and everything housed behind it
Do you ever look at your fingers and see
Everything that has written itself into their roughness?

4.

What is your favorite time of day?
And what time is it now in the hourglass of your life?
Have you found someone to call sunrise
Are you at peace with all your twilight
When you see a sunset
Do you think of blood
Or roses
Or both?
Will we ever afternoon together?

5.

How did your lips taste
The first time you lied to your mother?
How many tongues have you invited in since then
Attempting to rinse away the guilt?

6.

Would you open an umbrella if it rained
Or do you relish the ablution
Open your mouth and invite all the thunder in
And let raindrops string themselves along your eyelashes-
Has water ever taken anything from you?
Have you forgiven it?

7.

Whose voice kisses you into each day?
Do you love it?
Is it your own?
How often do you talk to yourself?
Does yourself ever talk back?

8.

If your actions and habits and experiences
And favorite foods and past lovers and songs from your adolescence
Make you what you are,
Then who are you?

9.

When you are happy,
Does warmth spread itself through your chest, to your fingers?
And have you ever seen anything so beautiful
That it made your stomach ache?
Can you tell me about it?
—the anything AND the ache.

10.

Have you ever considered any of the answers?
Do you think that the questions themselves are what matter?
Have you considered that the questions are my attempts to fall in love with you
Do you think that the answers might reveal
The reasons I shouldn’t

have you found someone to call sunrise. warms my little romantic heart.

nayyirahwaheed: she asked, ‘you are in love,what does love look like’to which i replied,‘like...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:34:30 -0400

nayyirahwaheed:

she asked,
‘you are in love,
what does love look like’
to which i replied,
‘like everything i’ve ever lost
come back to me’

- nayyirah waheed

"i am a woman and a poem."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:32:25 -0400

“i am a woman
and
a poem.”

- visceral, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

"If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:29:48 -0400

“If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success.”

- Malcolm X (via thechanelmuse)

hellyeahhorrormovies: Edgar Allen Poe

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:27:02 -0400

hellyeahhorrormovies:

Edgar Allen Poe

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:22:39 -0400

““Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.””

- N’tima (via qoldlush)

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:20:21 -0400

Flower-shop, Brussels, designed by Paul Hankar, XIX century.

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:19:37 -0400

Flower-shop, Brussels, designed by Paul Hankar, XIX century.

lizardking90: The chrysalis of the Metallic Mechanitis...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:08:24 -0400

lizardking90:

The chrysalis of the Metallic Mechanitis butterfly from Costa Rica.

ifuckinglovescience

Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:58:47 -0400

BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?
LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?
BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?
LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.
BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?
LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.

BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?
LAMAR: Who is my what?
BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.
LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.

BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?
LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.

BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:52:08 -0400

Identifying and untangling yourself from emotionally draining relationships is a skill. ♥

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:18:36 -0400

Identifying and untangling yourself from emotionally draining relationships is a skill. ♥