saw this at my aunt’s house and it instantly became my favorite picture ever. my grandparents <3
I’M ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THEM. I literally use like 3 a day and lose them everyday. Fuck, gimme your spares.
lmao i thought it was just me
Before Good Hair...
For those of you who enjoyed the new Chris Rock film Good Hair, I would urge you, if you haven’t already, to read the literary masterpiece that is Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Morrison, as you may or may not know, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her beautiful and poignant novel Beloved; however, in my opinion it should have been for this book. This book is one of the most powerful pieces of literature I have ever read, and I read A LOT of SHIT. The story is about a young dark skinned, coarse haired, “homely”, girl by the name of Pecola Breedlove. All of her life Pecola had been told that she was ugly because of her dark skin and “nappy” hair. Noticing how everyone loves the little white girls, dolls and Shirley Temple so much, Pecola believes that her life would be so much better if only she looked like them or more specifically if she had blue eyes. It is a painfully glaring story of self-hatred and Colorism in the black community, and gives insight to the reasons why black women are so self conscious about their hair and skin tones. Another must read for black men and women. Especially black men, for it is us who need to make sure our women know the magnitude of their desirability and to never feel the need to question their beauty in a world where we are proliferated by images of Eurocentric notions of beauty throughout the media. Morrison, a former Howard student and instructor, clearly drew some of her inspiration for the novel from the “Doll Test” conducted by former Howard psychologists Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark in 1939. In the experiment, the doctors placed white and black dolls in front of little black school children(male and female) and asked them which doll they preferred, and crazy enough the vast majority chose the white dolls over the black ones, connecting the white dolls with qualities such as “good” and “beautiful” while the black ones were deemed as “bad” and “ugly”. Sadly enough, in 2007 a 17 year old New York City film student, Kira Davis, conducted the same experiment hoping for a different outcome in the new millennium, but to much dismay the outcome was generally the same. I bring these things up to inform everyone about where these issues begin. It is much deeper than weave or skin lightener and “the desire to look nice” as some people put it. No, it is about the images that are shown to our mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, grandmothers and nieces and the Ideological State Apparatus, the media, that deems only certain images as beautiful. I applaud Chris Rock for his effort to tackle this issue, but I want you all to know where the inquiries began.
Dr. Kenneth Clark and student in experiment, 1939
Jodeci feat. Raekwon & Ghostface - Freakin’ You Remix
the fuck you know about Jodeci!? this is classic. excuse me, i’m in 90’s R&B kinda mood on this sunday morning, bianca would be proud :P
“The other day, Kate showed her some gold-colored sneakers thinking she might like to wear them, and she looked at them and said, ‘Oh mommy, these are lovely, but they’re boy shoes.”
—Tom Cruise on Suri’s penchant for heels
I’m more convinced than ever that Suri really is writing The Diary of Suri Cruise
Aww! She is adorable. ^_^
made me smile.
I don’t agree with little girls in heels
thank you. that little girl is too grown.
wat it look like?
BROOOKLYN!!!!!!!!!!!!
chill out playlist.
didn’t forget about you, thepo. here’s my first attempt at a mixtape or w.e. dunno if the dl link is gonna work, so here’s the track list just in case =)
Rollin’ (Remix) - Kid Cudi feat. Jackie Chain
Above the Clouds - Gang Starr feat. Inspectah Deck
What They Do - The Roots
Unanswered Question - Amel Larrieux
Fall in Love (Dilla Tribute) - Flying Lotus
Sunshine Strut - Flyphonic ft. Andreas Oberg
Stratus - Uyama Hiroto
Green Eyed Love - Mayer Hawthorne
Amnesia - Blu
It’s Whatever - Aaliyah
Wallpaper for the Soul - Tahiti 80
Leisure Suite - Feist
Love Theme from “Spartacus” - Akiko
still can’t believe i passed on an opportunity to meet this man.
We went to see Blu & Exile down here in D.C. for Sean’s birthday earlier this year. It was a really small venue, DC9 i think it was, and after his set, Blu lingered around, no more than 20 feet away. Alas, I am ridiculously shy, and as usual, I was the only girl in the group, so I had no one to accompany me to meet him, and so i didn’t… que lastima =/




