— Sally Brampton (via lungpeiling)
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— Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (via lethifold)
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— Andrea Gibson (via clementinebarish)
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— Zora Neale Hurston (via whatsatelephonebill)
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When you begin to study Zen, you aim to attain realization. Your motive is good in so far as motive is concerned, but in your meditation you should aim at nothing. You may aim at realization to encourage yourself when you are not meditating, but beware of clinging entanglements. Encouragement is one thing, meditation is another. Do not mix them up. Carry your meditation as the eternal present, and saturate your everyday life with it.
Nyogen Senzaki.
Photo by Erin Dorothy O’Connor.
January 9, 2013
and it all started with a simple question
January 6, 2013
and I constantly wonder how this magic is made
— W.E.B. Dubois (via wisdomorganic)
(via kemetically-afrolatino)
December 28, 2012
and the music we create is enough to make the world dance wildly
December 21, 2012
it could be the end of the world, and I would still be content with this
— Junot Díaz (via karanablue)
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— Andrew Boyd (via charlenekaye)
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Gay and transgender youth, particularly gender nonconforming girls, are up to three times more likely to experience harsh disciplinary treatment by school administrators than their heterosexual counterparts.
As with racial disparities in school discipline, these higher rates of punishment do not correlate to higher rates of misbehavior among gay and transgender youth.
LGBT youth make up 13-15 percent of the juvenile justice system, even though they make-up only 5–7 percent of the population overall, and 60 percent of these youth are black or Latino.
This high rate of contact with the system is due in part to harsh school sanctions often based on their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
"— Zero-tolerance policies perpetuate a school-to-prison pipeline for LGBT youths (via zeram)
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December 11, 2012
You, you, you.
I’ve always made it all about you.
December 6, 2012
but now it’s my turn
to mend her
how can something so far away be so close to me
