Bam-A-Lam

Sock’em Boppers

Yo-yo Balls

Zubaz

The crushing realization that you’re stuck between a generation of people who believed that hard work could accomplish anything and that you should live your dreams, while the generation that came immediately after you is living far better by being in the right place at the right time and having the foresight to study in newly developed fields, thus leaving you to tend to your hopeless, demolished expectations and dreams for the future

“In honor of her birthday, Beyoncé’s loved ones dedicate the songs that narrate their most cherished moments with her.”

“This wasn’t the start of another Internet spat. What Minaj did was necessary and even radical. She was refusing to apologize for wanting to be visible and rewarded like her peers. She was calling bullshit on the audacity of a white woman, who has, in the past, responded to people of color with indifference while she bastardizes their language, hair, dance, and visual aesthetics. Minaj did what a lot of black women want to do: call out people when they try to render you invisible, when they try to render your pain insignificant.”