“Art and culture are themselves time-traveling, planes of existence where the past, present, and future shift seamlessly in and out. And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.”
Look at God! LOOK AT THE PEOPLE! Y’all brought Cyntoia Brown home. There’s still so much work to do, but I’m proud af of every single one of you that took action, no matter how big or small. #allpowertothepeople
"Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—that is to say, risking oneself."
— James Baldwin, from “The Fire Next Time,” published c. 1963 (via violentwavesofemotion)
