April 2012
78 posts
“The very images of phallocentric black masculinity that are glorified and celebrated in rap music, videos, and movies are the representations that are evoked when white supremacists seek to gain public acceptance and support for genocidal assault on black men, particularly youth.”
—bell hooks, “Reconstructing Black Masculinity” (via marvelade)
“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
― Anaïs Nin” —
― Anaïs Nin” —
whoosh: "Stations", Audre Lorde →
ssitara.tumblr.com
Some women love
to wait
for life for a ring
in the June light for a touch
of the sun to heal them for another
woman’s voice to make them whole
to untie their hands
put words in their mouths
form to their passages sound
to their screams for some other sleeper
to…queen audre
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”
—Audre Lorde (via feminishblog)
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Segregation enabled black folks to maintain oppositional worldviews and standpoints to counter the effects of racism and to nurture resistance.The effectiveness of those survival strategies was made evident by both civil rights movements and the militant resistance that followed in their wake.
The resistance to colonialism was so fierce, a new strategy was required to maintain and perpetuate white supremacy. Racial integration was that strategy.
” —-bell hooks (via ekscreates)
Zora Neale Hurston’s critique of Brown v. Board of Education. This is a perspective that we rarely hear about; integration actually hurt Black students in significant ways, making illegal Black institutions which, out of necessity, had offered services which would be impossible to replicate in places where the teachers and students were predominantly white. It also put us on the track to see Black-separatism-as-survival instead as Black-separatism-is-anti-progress. At the time, it made Zora Neale Hurston extremely unpopular, and it might have even killed her career. But now, when people still self-segregate and the education that Black children get is extremely questionable, even harmful…it’s hard to know if Brown v. Board was the right thing to do.
(via fromonesurvivortoanother)
