Marvin's Room
When Drake 1st put the song out:
then Jojo’s version:
then Teyana had to remix a remix :
Sammie’s:
Chris Brown’s:
Santa Claus’:
Your mom’s:
July 2011
The Orangest Moon: For colored girls who idolized Carrie Bradshaw when Nina Mosely wasn't enough →
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This is easily my favorite thing I’ve ever read on the internet. Easily.I don’t stan for SATC anymore, but the obsession remains. I need to understand why Carrie seems to be narrating our lives. Why has she convinced us that her pain yields glamour? I’m over it, but I get it. All of Carrie’s suitors were beyond necessary. Even the ones we loved and hated for the…
June 2011
“for the ones who are told to speak only when spoken to and then are never spoken to.
Speak every time you stand so that you do not forget yourself,
never let a moment go by you that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day…
That there are enough gallons of blood to make you an ocean.
Do not settle for letting these waves that settle and for the dust to collect in your veins….” —excerpt from Anis Mojgani’s “Shake the Dust” #dig that
Speak every time you stand so that you do not forget yourself,
never let a moment go by you that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day…
That there are enough gallons of blood to make you an ocean.
Do not settle for letting these waves that settle and for the dust to collect in your veins….” —excerpt from Anis Mojgani’s “Shake the Dust” #dig that
“I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.”
—Langston Hughes, Negro (via thejazzpoet)
"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."
The Orangest Moon: (wo)manifesto →
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I am still stuck on ‘light of the sun’ …this is in my top 3 for sure.
Clearly I am not a fat ass
I am active brain
and lip smacking peach deep
sometimes too aggressive in its honesty
and heart sweet
that loves wholly and completely
whom it may choose
whom ever it may choose
I am not going to…
“Because he has been a major part of your life, of course you’ll miss him; it’s perfectly normal. It’s like getting a tooth pulled out; after the dentist pulls it out you’re relieved. But how many times does your tongue run itself over the spot where the tooth once was? Probably a hundred times a day. Just because it was hurting you does not mean you don’t notice it. It leaves a gap, and sometimes you see yourself missing it terribly. It’s going to take awhile, but it takes time. Should you have kept the tooth? No, because it was causing you pain. Pulling the tooth was the right decision, but it’s going to hurt.”
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(via simplyunforg3ttable) interesting take (via onemorebuttonundone)
…and a spottieotiedopalicious ‘damn’
“I know many people are concerned about the destruction of the sanctity of marriage, as well, and they view this as a threat. But let me as you something, ladies and gentlemen, what are we really protecting when you look at the divorce rate in our society? Turn on the television. We have a wedding channel on cable TV devoted to the behavior of people on their way to the altar. They spend billions of dollars, behave in the most appalling way, all in an effort to be princess for a day. You don’t have cable television? Put on network TV. We’re giving away husbands on a game show. You can watch “The Batchelor,” where 30 desperate women will compete to marry a 40-year-old man who has never been able to maintain a decent relationship in his life. We have “The Bacholorette,” in reverse. And my favorite show, which thank God only ran one season because it was truly distasteful, was “The Littlest Groom,” where 30 desperate women competed to marry a dwarf. That’s what we’ve done to marriage in America, where young women are socialized from the time they’re five years old to think of being nothing but a bride. They plan every day what they’ll wear, how they’ll look, the invitations, the whole bit. They don’t spend five minutes thinking about what it means to be a wife. People stand up there before God and man — even in Senator Diaz’s church — they swear to love, honor, and obey; they don’t mean a word of it. So if there’s anything wrong, any threat to the sanctity of marriage in America, it comes from those of us who have the privilege and the right, and we have abused it for decades.”
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NY Senator Diane Savino (via lady88) well said (via onemorebuttonundone)
*starts slow clap!*