Peace.Love.Life

I FEEL LIKE WE’VE BEEN SAYING THIS… FOREVER. BUT ONE WAS WAS LISTENING. AT ALL…

People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.

“I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.” - B

A dance lesson from James Brown, 1978. (x)

They are snatching wigs and souls out here.

Is so fucking racist. It’s essentially saying “I’m black and today I’m better than everyone else

I’m black and EVERY day, I’m better than everyone else.

- Jane Elliot on the Oprah Winfrey Show panel on racism in 1992.

Months after a county judge ordered Flint, Michigan to cease shutting off water pipes and revise customers’ bills, the city is once again sending out letters warning customers to pay or go dry. The city sent out more than 1,800 shutoff notices since last week, representing about 60 percent of all customers billed in September. While city ordinances call for a 10-day grace period between a shutoff warning and the city actually closing a pipe, Flint is giving residents until December 1 to make payments.