February 2012
“On August 23, 1860, the Philadelphia Public Ledger covered an unusual exchange...”
– Kali N. Gross. (2006) Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Duke University Press, 72.
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THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD.
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wait what?!
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor”
– Truman Capote (via fuckyeahqu0tes)
Margaret Cho fires back at Karl Lagerfield! →
tessmunster:
“When you say we are fat, you murder our grace, and we’ve already lost so much to begin with. We’ve already lost everything, except weight. That we gain steadily, along with self hatred, and all you are doing is adding to our burden, pressing down on the scale with the long toe of your fine, elegantly tassled loafer. We don’t have millions of dollars to perforate our fat with...
“You are going around to get a story of slavery conditions and the persecutions...”
– Thomas Hall, ex-slave of Orange County, North Carolina; from Been in the Storm So Long by Leon Litwack.
More than seventy years after emancipation, Thomas Hall, who had been born a slave in Orange County, North Carolina, could still shake with anger when he thought about the way his people had...
