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“Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes. Keep your conclusions light and your curiosity ferocious. Keep groping in the darkness with ravenous desire to know more.” Melissa Harris-Perry outlines her life advice for graduates.
SHE’S SO ADORKABLE
LOOK AT DOCTOR HARRIS PERRY PHD IN FULL DOCTORAL REGALIA AND CUTE NERDY GLASSES
:DDD
intellectual badass and inspiration to academic ladies everywhere <3
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"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."
Assata Shakur (via ethiopienne)
great quote.
(via deafmuslimpunx)
Our government considers this woman a terrorist.
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WHEN I WONDER IF THIS 18TH CENTURY DOCUMENT STILL HAS SMALLPOX
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“Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product … if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”
- Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968
Found in this thought provoking, inspiring talk by Derek Handley.
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"You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure."
John Berger Ways of Seeing (via spartanbitch)
This is super fucking relevant.
And why self portraits (selfies) are often such an act of self preservation and resistance.
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
YES. When men portray women it is beautiful and amazing of them to do so, people give them respect. But when a woman shows any form of confidence or puts herself out there she is considered an attention seeking whore.
(via lovenerdeen)
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About me
"Live by the [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
-Kurt Vonnegut
