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“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A H N K A ◒: morrison, reflection one →
ahnka: i keep forgetting that toni morrison is often cruel to her readers. she will warmly open her door to you and before you know it, your shoes are off, resting by the door, and you’re wrapped in a cashmere throw, sipping a tea you’ve never had until this moment but you’ve declared as your favorite. then right after you’ve sighed out your long day, your thankfulness, she whispers a sentence...
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morrison, reflection two
ahnka: “Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”  - from Jazz why you sit in the tub til the water turns cold and stay on the train past your stop and don’t realize you’ve been holding your breath for paragraphs cuz, yes, you were scared and proud and awestruck as you approached these lines.
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Top 5 Albums of 2011
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The Lives They Lived →
I just balled my eyes out after reading this beautiful and moving story by comedian Mike Stefano about his last moments with his wife. Read it. It’s so touching. DeStefano: And I realized how much I did need her, like I loved her, she was my best friend. And so what I did was I went home, and I brought some of my work shirts back to the hospice. And I brought them into her room, and I...
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Did you know…?
Ayiti (land of mountains) is the original Taino name for what is now known as the island of Hispañola. When General-Governor Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared what was then Saint Domingue a free and independent Black Nation in 1804, he changed the name back to Ayiti, in an act that W.E.B. Dubois, among many historians, believed was an “attempt to symbolically disrupt centuries of European...
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“I release the fear and doubts which block the way to my creative expression.”
– throat chakra affirmation
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10 Ways to Love Others →
I started in on a massive perfectionist’s list of resolutions full of well-intentioned and optimistic promises to myself for what I would like to think will make me happier, make me feel more accomplished, make everything easy again. Then I came across this little nugget. I may sound a bit naive in saying so, but I think this might be the only list of resolutions I’ll ever need. Number...
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“When we affirm that we are fulfilled rather than deficient, we are asserting...”
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