Paralyzed by Hope

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maudelynn: Vintage Photo Booth

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:59:41 -0400

maudelynn:

Vintage Photo Booth

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:29:39 -0400

““Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.””

- (via fashionfever)

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“I’m Just Wild About Harry” is a song written in 1921 for the...

Wed, 29 May 2013 12:17:00 -0400

“I’m Just Wild About Harry” is a song written in 1921 for the Broadway show Shuffle Along. “I’m Just Wild About Harry” was the most popular number of the production, which was the first financially successful Broadway play to have African-American writers and an all African-American cast.

The piece premiered on Broadway in 1921, running for 504 performances, which was an unusually long run during that decade, launching the careers of Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall and Paul Robeson.

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Madeline: Mama, I know you’re crying because your dad died“Yes he did baby. Do you know...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:58:00 -0400

Madeline: Mama, I know you’re crying because your dad died

“Yes he did baby. Do you know what died means?”

Madeline: Yes, it means he won’t ever be alive again. But don’t worry, he’s still your parent”

akiey: dynamicafrica: iluvsouthernafrica: Madagascar: Beautifu...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:12:50 -0400

akiey:

dynamicafrica:

iluvsouthernafrica:

Madagascar:

Beautiful Magadascan women: c. 1898

(the beauty and power of these women made me cry)

Felt the same way as I was scrolling through these photographs of these incredibly beautiful women. Their elaborate hairstyles and equally as immaculate clothing just blows me away.

This has made my day.
Afrique, mon Afrique.

lati-negros: writeswrongs: cavetocanvas: Gordon Parks, Dr....

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:46:40 -0400

lati-negros:

writeswrongs:

cavetocanvas:

Gordon Parks, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark conducting the Doll Test, Harlem, New York, 1947

In the “doll test,” psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark used four plastic, diaper-clad dolls, identical except for color. They showed the dolls to black children between the ages of three and seven and asked them questions to determine racial perception and preference. Almost all of the children readily identified the race of the dolls. However, when asked which they preferred, the majority selected the white doll and attributed positive characteristics to it. The Clarks also gave the children outline drawings of a boy and girl and asked them to color the figures the same color as themselves. Many of the children with dark complexions colored the figures with a white or yellow crayon. The Clarks concluded that “prejudice, discrimination, and segregation” caused black children to develop a sense of inferiority and self-hatred. This photograph was taken by Gordon Parks for a 1947 issue of Ebony magazine. (via)

You want to know what is exceptionally fucked up?

The same study was replicated in 2008. Dark-skinned children still by far selected the white doll. Repeatedly.

Dr. Kenneth B. Clark - Panamanian

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stuffmomnevertoldyou: blackhistoryalbum: Black Victorians |...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:17:12 -0400

stuffmomnevertoldyou:

blackhistoryalbum:

Black Victorians | 1890s

When I was 6 and saw this for the first time in my grandmothers...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:57:00 -0400

When I was 6 and saw this for the first time in my grandmothers basement, I thought it was cotton candy and tried to eat it.

"I deserve passion. I deserve to be loved - in every way. I deserve a man who’ll give his whole..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:32:42 -0400

“I deserve passion. I deserve to be loved - in every way. I deserve a man who’ll give his whole heart, not the part he isn’t using at the moment.”

- Loretta Chase, Silk Is For Seduction (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

Junibacken, Stockholm

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:29:00 -0400

Junibacken, Stockholm

Sherlock Holmes Museum London

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:22:00 -0400

Sherlock Holmes Museum London

bike in Berlin

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:12:44 -0400

bike in Berlin

sisterhimalaya: i am not obsessed with records like everyone...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:39:39 -0400

sisterhimalaya:

i am not obsessed with records like everyone else, but if i could find a gramophone as beautiful as this, i’d buy it.