i’m just trying to be a professionally successful/well-traveled/well-educated woman of God with an always affectionate heart towards others & a never-ending dedication to bettering myself
6 years ago with 23,632 notes2 days ago with 1,447 notesAudre Lorde, from “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (1981) [ID in ALT]
1 week ago with 33,967 noteswhen susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”
So many things have changed since I’ve last logged into this website.
Personal life turned upside down, extended family exiled from their homes, the world much colder & cruel.
Alhamdulillah through it all. I pray that we all see justice & experience peace in this world & the next.
1 week ago with 3 notesDo you think peace is possible?
1 week ago with 187 notes“that’s the white man’s word: peace. liberation is our word”-Kwame Ture
not only do i think liberation is possible. i think it’s inevitable.
6 months ago with 607 notesThe right circle of friends around you will give you the worldly support you’ll need to get through life. Regardless of how much our generation may romanticize isolation, the truth is that we were put on this planet to live in community, we were never meant to do life alone.
It is better to be alone than surrounded by the wrong people, and it’s even better to be surrounded by the right people than to be alone.
7 months ago with 16,936 notesclutching to my wonder and love for the world despite the endless tasks

















