January 2012
75 posts
Fuck Yeah Chicana Writers: Poem For The Young... →
fuckyeahchicanawriters:
In my land there are no distinctions.
The barbed wire politics of oppression
have been torn down long ago. The only reminder
of past battles, lost or won, is a slight
rutting the fertile fields.
In my land
people write poems about love,
full of nothing but contented childlike…
December 2011
34 posts
1 tag
“We can’t afford another lost generation of people that don’t...”
– Leslie Strnisha, senior program director of a foundation run by the Sisters of Charity that started a Promise Neighborhood in Cleveland, one of more than twenty programs modeled on the Harlem Children’s Zone.
“My body is not a representation of my failures, sins, or mistakes. My body is...”
– Avoid Holiday Weight Shame — Ragen (danceswithfat)
Inspired by Lit: Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou →
inspiredbylit:
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. …
1 tag
“The key to your happiness and contentment lies within you, within your own heart...”
– Eileen Caddy
“What we do is very little. But it is like the little boy with a few loaves and...”
– Dorothy Day
Inspired by Lit: Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou →
inspiredbylit:
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. …
