No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
— Assata Shakur (via unecrepuscule)
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
— Joss Whedon (via i-m-an-angel-you-ass)
If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.
— A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner (via excrutiate)
Because I am a woman who understands, I am asked to understand everything, to accept everything. I am a human being, not a goddess.
— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via violentwavesofemotion)
the dawns are heartbreaking: On Being Different / Casual Racism: Why you should shut up. Now.
When I was seven-years old, I already had my issues trying to remain invisible: oversized pink glasses, a severe case of terminal shyness, and a tendency to sit in a corner of the playground with Anne of Green Gables, trying to fit myself like my favourite brocade pocket mirror into the…
