"We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off." — Erykah Badu, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975  (via ceedling)

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"I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke." — Meredith Grey  (via thatkindofwoman)

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"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane." — George Orwell, 1984 (via chord-organ-blues)

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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self." — Ernest Hemingway (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)

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The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,

“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”

This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.

Women are not possessions.

Women are people.

" —

The Believer Logger: I am not your wife, sister or daughter 

One of the most incisive responses to some of the rhetoric we’ve been hearing in the wake of the Steubenville rape verdict is this blog post over at The Belle Jar.

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"The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be." — Jada Pinkett Smith  (via ceedling)

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"My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself." — Anonymous (via theevildead-)

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