I know the anger that lies inside me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be angry than to hurt / Anger is what I do best. It is easier to be furious than yearning / easier to crucify myself and you / than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting we are worth wanting each other.
Tongues Untied | Marlon Riggs, 1989
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“I do not feel as though issues of identity are exhaustible. The notion of identity, be it self-constructed or as an imposed ideology from outside, means to me that it is a complex and contradictory system.”
Lorna Simpson
still from Easy to Remember
video installation
2001
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Afro-Cubans and Sierra Leoneans Bridge the Gap in Documentary They Are We (2013)
Can a family separated for 170 years by the transatlantic slave trade sing and dance its way back together again? THEY ARE WE tells a story of survival against the odds, and how determination and shared humanity can triumph over the bleakest of histories.
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I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
Frida Kahlo - upon her first trip outside of Mexico, to San Francisco, Ca. (via talcottbroadhead)
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I chose to be a writer in girlhood because books rescued me. They were the places where I could bring the broken bits and pieces of myself and put them together again, the places where I could dream about alternative realities, possible futures. They let me know firsthand that if the mind was to be the site of resistance, only the imagination could make it so. To imagine, then, was a way to begin the process of transforming reality. All that we cannot imagine will never come into being.
bell hooks, “Narratives of Struggle” (via sevenredumbrellas)
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Ghadames, Libya - by Pascal Meunier
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Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan. #instalove
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Romare Bearden, Reclining Nude, c. 1977
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Please, why isn’t this my grandmother?
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Jean-Michel Basquiat in Abidjan 1986
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I/O - “Wasted My Time”
Probably one of the best videos I have seen this year period. Great song , this video takes visuals that accompany music to the next tier. Apparently he’s Naija (Nigerian-American) so additional props given there ha.
Produced by- I/O & BRTHR
Seven Deadly Sins.
Dope
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Egon Schiele, Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, 1914
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