The Warrior is aware of her own immense strength; she never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.
Paolo Coelho (via funkchunk)
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“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”
-Frederick Douglass
June Jordan on Feminism
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan
Huey Freeman on Vision
Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now ask yourself, Are you ready to see that vision?
Huey Freeman (via monochromaticblack)
On Limitations
What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible …Who you are is limited only by who you think you are
Egyptian book of the dead (via fyeahblackhistory)
like black butterflies 