i physically cannot make a spotify playlist without adding every song i’ve ever liked. i’ll start one called “sad :(” and it’ll end up with temperature by sean paul on it
James Baldwin: "The children are always ours every single one of them all over the globe, and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
THIS is who Appalachians are. This is our story. We’ve gone astray & have now elected people who cater to corporations & are working to pass laws that encourage child labor. Let’s get back to this.
White people are afraid that if their children learn black history, they will not grow up to support policies that maintain the racial hierarchy. There's literally no other reason.
Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality and demanding they be legislated over our entire country, yet reducing the +3,000 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor, the vulnerable, and the refugee to a private, personal choice.
Her last line isn’t translated - she tells her cat, if we die, find strangers to eat, not us.
She must have seen it happen.
What am I supposed to do with this story. How am I supposed to just go on about my day now.
“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
- Toni Morrison, born on this day in 1931