like black fruit

🗣️ AS SOON I CAME OUT THE WOMB, MY MAMA KNEW A STAR WAS BORN!

RIP to Brian Wilson. I love listening to the a cappella version for Wouldn’t It Be Nice. Just lush.

“Revolutionary change is not ordered like a meal or some product online. It is also not voted in by exporting decisions to a representative. It is fought long and hard and won through persistent struggle. It’s the same struggle that we’re supposed to carry forward when we understand the lengths that others went to before us. Those making Black people collateral damage in their victim-blaming schemes aren’t much better than the liberal resignation essentializing Blackness as meaning “we’ve done enough.” Black skin doesn’t mean we inherited activism or a radical resume. If you do the work, you are those things, but not just because you fit the description of an identity. Plenty of the people we’re fighting against right now represent the diversification of empire and fascism, since our adversaries are not only white men.”

Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe is a gift.