May 2012
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May 22nd
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“You can outrun what is running after you, but not what is running inside of you”
– Rwandan Proverb
May 22nd
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Listenbitchimrickjames: Jill Scott & Chris Botti -...
May 22nd
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by...”
– Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon 
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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“You will soon discover that you are less whole than you realize, filled with...”
– Dear Twenty-Something Self, Mark Scandrette 
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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Listensinful-nature: Pearls | Sade 
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 5th
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“I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She...”
– African feminist, Ifi Amadiume
May 5th
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May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2012
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But of course.
… What do I know? I’m not Muslim enough. 
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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“I envy the sand that met his feet I’m jealous of honey he tasted sweet.”
– Hamza Yusuf (via majdimam)
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and...”
– Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Let’s think about this for a moment in relation to the “Arab Spring” or the “Arab Awakening” and how we (they) have already begun to reconstruct and write a narrative of “pre-revolution” history, even in the way we have titled the uprisings. So in Fanon’s...
Apr 22nd
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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“Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes...”
– Jack Hamilton, “America Is Dying Slowly: Talking About Hip-Hop After Trayvon Martin” (Good)
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Listenshlrzy09: White - Frank Ocean
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Dear Person Who Took My iPod,
… I hope you enjoy 160GB of good shit, and mix tapes for when you get some (‘cos I have a long list of that stuff, to make sure you do get some). Please feel free to flick through pictures of my family and friends (I cannot confirm if the pictures are compromising or not). Go through my Recently Played list and see all the shit I’ve been listening to on loop for the past two...
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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“I’m a man of faith; I’m a practicing Muslim. At the same time, I grew up well...”
– Anwar Ibrahim, Asia360: Understanding Anwar 
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 10th
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“INTERVIEWER You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted...”
– The Art of Fiction No 71, The Paris Review (via iankhalil)
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Decoding the Beyonce Tumblr  | Celebrity Gossip,... →
bowielovesbeyonce: MUST READ. What a welcome, fascinating change. Agreed must read. 
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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“… And I’m very much afraid of the whole bloody human race… Who wouldn’t be...”
– Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight (via libraryland)
Apr 10th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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