November 2011
34 posts
“I think they should be incredibly proud of themselves, […] They’ve raised some very important issues around income disparity, about what creates and constitutes a just society, and I think it’s important we understand it’s part of a global conversation that will not end here, regardless of an eviction notice.”
—Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (via fuckyeahtoronto)
“The Occupy movement has had two months to develop a coherent message, engage broad public sympathy, or begin its transition to a political movement. It has done none of the above, remaining instead an incoherent voice grating on the nerves of the very 99% it claims to represent. It targets big business, but hurts small business; it claims a right to public spaces, but sees fit to trash them; it claims to want to influence politics, but has not morphed into the “Tea Party of the left” many expected it to become. Sorry, Occupiers, but the mayors are right. It is time to pack up the tents.”
—Tasha Kheiriddin for the National Post (via fuckyeahtoronto)
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We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
I, too, sing america
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
—Langston Hughes
“BLACK GIRLS ROCK.”
—Thank you BET for that awesome, long awaited Awards show
what drake said about tumblr
makes perfect sense. I totally get it, and I see it in the people I follow who I know personally who are completely different in real life than they are on tumblr. What kills me, is that since I know them, i know that they’re just trying their hardesstttt to be considered cool.I’ll admit when I first joined tumblr I was guilty of those things, until I became aware of this behaviour when I saw it in others. But since then I’ve been authentic on my Tumblrand my followers get a chance to see who I truly am. And I believe that when people do that Tumblr becomes a great tool for self expression, and provides it’s users with a chance to be introspective.
“I’m really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr. I hate what Tumblr has become. Because it like, it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school that used to make fun of everyone and define what was cool, but in five years, when you all graduate, that shit doesn’t matter. No one gives a fuck about that shit. Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they’re just taking these images and living vicariously through other people’s moments. It just kills me. Then you’ll meet them and they’re just the biggest turkey in the world. They don’t actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It’s scary man, simulation life that we’re living. It scares me.”
—Drake on hating Tumblr (via boldesol)
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follow me on twitter.
@amikameanz
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“so.in.love.”
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“I wonder what Kanye West smells like.”
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