“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
—Maya Angelou (via wearebarebones)
May 2013
11 posts
Are there any Black painters in the Atlanta area that host BYOB instructional painting classes, from their homes or other places?
“When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return.”
—Stephen Richards (via thingsthatsing)
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”
—The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (via ladivergencia)
“She is a friend of mine. She gather me man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
— Toni Morrison; Beloved (via accidental-dose)
“Lonely, ain’t it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” —Toni Morrison (via haseenazakiya)
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” —Toni Morrison (via haseenazakiya)
“[Y]ou have to *decide* who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its *idea* of you.”
—James Baldwin (via impoddity)
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
Stephen R. Covey” —(via makelifenotsuck)
Stephen R. Covey” —(via makelifenotsuck)
April 2013
55 posts
“Her skinny canvas for ultraviolet brush strokes,
She was the sun’s painting,
She was a deep cognac color,
Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city,
Her lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet and full for her mouth to hold.” —Mos Def, Love Rain
She was the sun’s painting,
She was a deep cognac color,
Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city,
Her lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet and full for her mouth to hold.” —Mos Def, Love Rain
“The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough for someone else is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image. Then we try to project that image according to what they want us to be, just to be accepted, just to have the reward. We learn to pretend to be what we are not, and we practice trying to be someone else, just to be good enough… We practice and practice , and we master how to be what we are not.”
—Don Miguel Ruiz, Mastery of Love, p. 20
“In the track of love, you are giving more than taking. And of course, you love yourself so much that you don’t allow selfish people to take advantage of you.”
—Don Miguel Ruiz, Mastery of Love, p. 69
“Loneliness is always concerned with others; aloneness is concerned with oneself.”
— Osho
“I want you, cause you make my heart skip the beat that it drum to..”
— Talib Kweli (“Talk to You Lil Darlin”)
“Focused. I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.”
— Mos Def
“If I could harness the power of these emotions that run mercurial through me, I could light the world from dusk to dawn. Everyday. For eons to come..”
— StaceyAnn Chin
