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*i’m very eager to unlock the mysteries of my useless memory.
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daily scribblings, inspirations + my evolution.
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
(Source: how-novelistic, via fierceblackgirls)
what to cook & how to cook it by jane hornby
just bought this for ef at anthropologie yesterday. it’s the most beautiful cookbook i’ve ever seen.
This season of BAM’s Eat, Drink & Be Literary is so good! I’m eyeing Teju Cole later this week (Mar 15). I have a doctor’s appointment, but I’m praying I can make it out to catch this week’s show.
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A H N K A ◒: morrison, reflection one
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 in your ear that makes you hot with rage and anxious about how long the melancholy she’s just gifted you will last.
morrison, reflection two
“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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"Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out."
— Zadie Smith (via monamade)
(Source: danceabletragedy, via lawd-knows)
i just purchased this book, my future listography at cb2 this afternoon. some of you already know how much i genuinely appreciate an opportunity to make a list of any sort. listing is the bomb! it makes me feel like i have my snatch together.
my first list is of the cities i plan to visit; the list is massive, of course, because i plan to someday be a baller, but here’s a short sample:
marrakech, morocco; i will know i’ve made it in life once i’ve taken myself here.
brussels, belgium; i was born here and i haven’t been since i was small.
havana, cuba; to reconcile the images from film and papers with the real thing.
montpellier, france; seems like a lovely place for a retiring baller to retire.
lagos, nigeria; for the music and for the food!
amsterdam, the netherlands; a pair of my favorite homies live here!
malmö, sweden; some of my favoritest music comes from this city.
cape town, south africa; i want to experience an SA house party in person.
cap hatien, haiti; i’m told it’s a beautiful city and i have peoples here.
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
— James Baldwin
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there are many more men than women, the result of systematic campaigns against baby girls. In “Unnatural Selection,” Ms. Hvistendahl reports on this gender imbalance: what it is, how it came to be and what it means for the future.
(via wallstreetjournal)
