Last night a guy followed me into a bodega. When I told him to leave me alone, he said that I couldn’t stay in the store all night. Then the store owner told him to leave, he didn’t, the owner hopped over the counter with a lock and they fought in the street. Bodegas forever.
The worlde kan be a terrible place sumtymes, full of chaos and tragedye. Holde on to ech othir. Call the good thinges to heart and to mynde. Helpe whan ye kan, and aske for helpe whan ye neede. Sing so that ye kan weepe, and weepe so that ye kan sing. Be verye fierclye kind.
Breaking: The government has agreed to rescind DHS and ICE rules barring international students attending online universities from staying in the U.S., per a hearing this afternoon in Harvard and MIT's lawsuit against the agencies.
This image is so chilling to me. How can you go out for a meal, sit there with no mask on, see that this is the person serving you and not think... maybe you're doing something selfish and unnecessary?
Elijah McCain was a massage therapist who played violin for shelter kittens on his lunch break in his hometown of Aurora, Colorado, because he thought the animals were lonely.
He should be alive right now. He was a good person.
"Black people, you said, were the only people in the United States ever explicitly forbidden to become literate. I am now officially speechless." -
Nikky Finney, accepting the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Men will never understand what it feels like to be 16/17 and have an older man pursue you. Your brain is not even fully developed and you are easily manipulated into thinking that the attention you are receiving is appropriate. Stop blaming children for the behavior of adults