Hey Fiona are you over your insecurity yet?

insp.

Angela Davis, prison interview 1972

does a tweet ever bring you hope

via oroborostore

Stalker (1979)

Text on cast aluminum plaque.

Photographed by Venetia Scott for POP

the thing is, ellen bass / for example, mary oliver 

— hermann hesse

when the ghosts come ashore: things i should say to myself in the mirror or things i would say to the city of st. louis if it could hear me, jacqui germain

Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

When Death Comes (Mary Oliver) 

Kill Bill: Volume I (2003)

Sara Ahmed (via rs620)

Photographer: Irving Penn 

Life’s a bitch, now so am I.

“He made it very clear to me that all of us white liberals–guilty, well-meaning people–were merely a big flashlight cast upon the evil of racism, and the flashlight found some corners where it continued, and still continues, to live. ‘Throw the light,’ he told me, ‘and then get out of the way. This is our battle to win.’ He also told me that I expected a medal or a blowjob if I opened a door for a black woman or helped a black man get a job. ‘You are a white raindrop on the desert floor of America’s racism,’ he told me. He was right. But I kept showing up, being the flashlight, being the raindrop, and realizing how utterly hopeless our desire to expunge our guilt was. We deserve the guilt. The guilt stays with us. A cross, an anvil, to bear for eternity.”