“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die.”
-Nikki Giovanni
nobody speak! Nikki Giovanni has passed. what a loss. and still, how lucky are we that we got share a plane with such brilliance. words as spells, as talismans, as movements that could never die.
I have never been in despair about the world. I’ve been enraged by it. I don’t think I’m in despair. I can’t afford despair. I can’t tell my nephew, my niece. You can’t tell the children there’s no hope.
// James Baldwin
so unfortunately smoking cigarettes does make you look really cool. especially if you’re a girl. it really sucks about the whole cancer part because it truly looks phenomenally sick