The Minimalist is a GOOD THEME

does my theme impress you with its minimalism?

Democracy is an emancipatory project. To retreat from the word is to retreat from the quest. To tread cautiously in unfamiliar terrain is sensible; to listen before one speaks is prudent; to interrogate one’s own positions before others is the beginning of wisdom; but to remain silent in the presence of brutality is to become complicit in it.

—Sue Curry Jansen

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PJ Harvey

—We Float

PJ Harvey - We Float

note to self:  during times of depression, mental & spiritual sluggishness, and all around lack of motivation, listen to some of the songs you associate with better times. one lap through this album and i want to hang out with everyone i know, spend every night finding new places to go and new things to do, and accomplish every goal that i keep setting to the side because i’m too depressed, bored, exhausted, and unfeeling.

cunts4lunch-yolo asked: HOW DID YOU GET THE ASK BUTTON?

i dont understand the question and i wont respond to it

Hence, for liberals, black people are to be ‘included’ and ‘integrated’ into ‘our’ society and culture, while for conservatives they are to be ‘well-behaved’ and ‘worthy of acceptance’ by ‘our’ way of life. Both fail to see that the presence and predicaments of black people are neither additions to nor defections from American life, but rather constitutive elements of that life.

—Cornel West, Race Matters (via ethiopienne)

(via brosephstalin)

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Galaxie 500

—Isn't It A Pity

Galaxie 500 - Isn’t It A Pity

newsweek: Somebody stole your tumblr’s New York Times this morning! Isn’t that punishable by death here in New York City? This is my life 3 out of 5 weekday mornings.

newsweek:

Somebody stole your tumblr’s New York Times this morning! Isn’t that punishable by death here in New York City?

This is my life 3 out of 5 weekday mornings.

this guys shirt is too ridiculous

this guys shirt is too ridiculous

01.10.2012

I’ve been back in New York for over a year now. The lease on my apartment is almost up and, in the midst of the scramble to find a new place, to rearrange my life once again, that where-did-the-time-go feeling has been rearing its worrisome head. It has been difficult for me to re-embrace New York as my home, and there is probably a bucketful of reasons for that, but just today I realized that number one on the list is a sense of homesickness, this feeling I’d forgotten about for almost two years, since I was living in Massachusetts in 2010.

There is probably a lot of self-deception involved. For most of the time that I lived in Mass, I was homesick for N.Y., and it’s easy to ignore that fact now that I’m back. But upon returning to my native state two Septembers ago, I immediately regretted the decision (or at least part of me did). I guess, when you move, there is always that sense that you packed up and left just as you were finding your niche. That was certainly true in this case. 

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