August 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
“I would never, ever hire someone with a “black” name on their resume. I wouldn’t...”
– An African American co-worker at a team dinner. (via microaggressions)
August 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“Quitters never win and winners never quit.”
– Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
5 posts
Reducing Black Joblessness →
In March, as the national unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month, the rate for black men rose to 20.2 The May edition of City Limits magazine presents a comprehensive investigation of the causes, consequences and political controversy of black male joblessness.
“Amid alarm over high black male unemployment in New York City and elsewhere, it’s easy to...
2 tags
“We should cultivate the ability to say no to activities for which we have no...”
– Roy Blauss
1 tag
“Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.”
– Margaret Fuller
I can't believe....
I’ve neglected tumblr for so long…
January 2010
2 posts
“How hard it is for us to accept where we are at a given point, how we always are...”
– (via whitneyj) (via fearof1flying)
October 2009
3 posts
1 tag
“and the thing is
the only reason
why I have difficulty
trusting you
is...”
– Saul Williams
September 2009
9 posts
No No No :: Dawn Penn
No no no You don’t...
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy...”
– Fight Club (via kevinramos) (via fcg)
Choices
neptunelle:
You can sit back and be a product of your past or you can step up and be inspired by your future.
When you let go you make room to receive. But you have to do the work.
So what is it going to be?
That’s the question I ask myself everyday.
sigh… me too
Express.
neptunelle:
I feel like arts heal the soul. An art, whatever medium it may manifest itself in or to whatever effect it may have, provides a therapeutic release for emotions, thoughts, ideas and spirit. For so many of us I know it’s true that on some days you wouldn’t have gotten through without a certain song. You wouldn’t have been able to have unload if you had you not paint that picture or...
“She’s strong because she knows what it’s like to be weak. She keeps her guard up...”
– (via carmela) (via neevaloves) (via junglejustine) (via holdmygold)
August 2009
29 posts
“Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at...”
– Edward R. Murrow
Bun B :: pushin
“Anyone who thought such preconceptions were outdated would have been reminded...”
– Skin Deep - Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics - NYTimes.com (via bthny)
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we...”
– Erica Jong
notinthemood:
“The choices I have made Oh have...
Passing me by :: The Pharcyde
Nothing To Worry About :: Peter Bjorn and John
I swear …
one of the hardest things in life is accepting not everyone likes what you like, thinks how you think or feels how you feel.
jfkennedy
