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art-and-fury: Spirit of the Dead Watching - Paul Gauguin

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:24:44 -0400

Spirit of the Dead Watching - Paul Gauguin

"It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:07:18 -0400

“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.”

- Haruki Murakami (via hellanne)

Photo

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:20:43 -0400

lovelyandbrown: portrait.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:30:30 -0400

lovelyandbrown:

portrait.

slay-z: zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:39:10 -0400

slay-z:

zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite ever

brown femme, moon priestess: kefiyat: Daughters give me hope. In Urdu, we say that a daughter is...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:09:04 -0400

brown femme, moon priestess: kefiyat: Daughters give me hope. In Urdu, we say that a daughter is...:

kefiyat:

Daughters give me hope. In Urdu, we say that a daughter is rehmat (blessing) but society turns her life into zehmat (inconvenience).

Gonna teach my daughters to be loud and vibrant. Gonna teach them to never fear three things: Men, money and madness. Gonna teach them to subvert…

"In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:55:40 -0400

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”

- Octavia Butler (via browngirlinorange)

boyhood: “Virgin of the Angels, Mexico” Flor Garduno 1987,...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:59:16 -0400

boyhood:

“Virgin of the Angels, Mexico”

Flor Garduno

1987, printed 1995

deafmuslimpunx: losh0: A favorite Emiliano Zapata,...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:22:56 -0400

deafmuslimpunx:

losh0:

A favorite

Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary hero, México

Dorothy Dandridge (third from left front row) with beauty...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:56:23 -0400

Dorothy Dandridge (third from left front row) with beauty contest winners in Los Angeles, CA - 1946

Black beauty pageants. Nice. It’s funny that segregation has ‘ended,’ but it seems like black spaces that were lost we never regained in a multicultural mainstream society. Maybe I’m just out touch, but it seems like we need more safe (tolerant, open, anti-racist) community spaces for people to be with each other and create and celebrate and let loose or compete, perform, whatever.

ridesabike: Elsa Martinelli rides a bike.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:04:11 -0400

ridesabike:

Elsa Martinelli rides a bike.

wolkenknd:

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:02:23 -0400

wolkenknd:

rurone: nokkerosor: Cholitas Luchadores: Bolivias Female...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:46:13 -0400

rurone:

nokkerosor:

Cholitas Luchadores: Bolivias Female Wrestlers.

The fighting cholitas see themselves as symbols of strength: Their opponents include bigotry and sexism. “My goal,” says one fighter, “is to lift up indigenous women, who have been treated with contempt.”

“We fighters carry within us a kind of fire that nothing can quench.”

BADASS

ancientart: Egyptian Figure of a Horus Falcon. This masterpiece...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:01:09 -0400

ancientart:

Egyptian Figure of a Horus Falcon. This masterpiece represents a solar god in falcon form. between circa 300 and circa 250 BC (Greco-Roman), made of gold with blue glass inlay.

Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, USA

Photo

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:34:53 -0400

nostalgerie: Moorish woman, Mauritania

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:58:25 -0400

nostalgerie:

Moorish woman, Mauritania

deafmuslimpunx: browngirls4bindis: സഞ്ചാരം/Sancharram (The...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:57:40 -0400

deafmuslimpunx:

browngirls4bindis:

സഞ്ചാരം/Sancharram (The Journey)

A Malayalam film written, directed and produced by Ligy J. Pullappally, inspired both by her short film Uli and a true story of two lesbian lovers in Kerala, India.

That film was great.

vintageblackglamour: There are versatile artists, and then...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:54:37 -0400

vintageblackglamour:

There are versatile artists, and then there is Geoffrey Holder. Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1930, Mr. Holder danced with his brother Boscoe’s dance troupe as a child. He arrived in New York in 1952 at the invitation of the legendary choreographer, Agnes de Mille and, to pay his fare, he sold 20 of his paintings. He would go on to win a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting in 1957. A few years before, he was a principal dancer at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and appeared on Broadway in Truman Capote’s “House of Flowers,” where he would meet his wife of 57 years, the dancer Carmen de Lavallade.

In 1975, Mr. Holder won 2 Tony Awards in the same evening for directing and choreographing the Broadway musical, “The Wiz.” He is best known to most for his film and commercial roles: as Baron Samedi in the 1973 James Bond film, “Live and Let Die” and of course, as the “Un-cola Man” in the ubiquitous 1970s 7-Up commercials. Mr. Holder is still painting and creating art today and, the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago currently has an exhibition featuring Mr. Holder and Ms. de Lavallade. In this picture, Mr. Holder is sitting in front of one of his painting, sometime in the 1960s. Photo: Bradley Smith/Corbis.

strugglingtobeheard: [x] Da babies are back!!!

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:24:54 -0400

strugglingtobeheard:

[x]

Da babies are back!!!

ethiopienne: this is literally my dream life

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:42:23 -0400

ethiopienne:

this is literally my dream life