August 2012
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I LOVE MEN
I Love Men
AUG. 17, 2012
By KAREN NOBLE
I love the way men sit. Legs open usually,worn knees on their jeans, wallets outlined and pressed against their back pockets. They bend over and rest their arms on their thighs. Maybe they’re wearing old beige Converse sneakers and sitting on silver bleachers watching a Little League game. Maybe it’s hot outside and they run their hand through...
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society, 1989 (via skinandboneskeleton)
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of...”
– Gabrielle Rotho (via singkrenisite)
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“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer,...”
– Dylan Moran (via youngfolksociety)
“You find somebody you like and you roll the dice. That’s all anybody can do.”
– Ron Swanson (via youngfolksociety)
“I’m sitting opposite you in the bar,
waiting for you to uncross your...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via youngfolksociety)
the craft
the first line of a poem should usher you in,
a door half open,
a warm glow,
an empty seat.
the last line should punch you in the stomach.
sometimes love is like that too.
-warsan shire
“I’ll teach her that she has an army inside her
that can save her life.”
– “Daughter,” Nicole Blackman (via newancient)
“Is that what I’m supposed to do? Spend my life keeping a man?”
– Toni Morrison, Sula (via lover-root)
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“The people who get angriest about fat girls looking good and feeling hot are the...”
– Lesley Kinzel, CNN.com (via cy-v)
Any guy that expects some sort of thanks for acting like a decent human being towards a woman isn’t actually a decent human being.
“Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do...”
– Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation (via monamade)
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“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or one’s calling is an intimate...”
– James Baldwin (via modelcityzen)
“perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone...”
– rainer maria rilke (via dreamhampton1)
“‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via mariposa-serendipia)
“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no...”
– Billie Holiday (via fierceblackgirls)
“For so long everyone has wanted to hold on to the belief that the United States...”
– bell hooks (via dead-dog-fred)
