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slimbug · 5 days
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Thursday was Mother’s Day in Palestine and I cannot stop thinking about all of the mothers in Gaza that are watching their children starve to death and not being able to stop it. How many of them have witnessed their children blown to shreds, picking up scattered body parts in an effort to give them a proper burial. My heart is breaking for them. 💔
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slimbug · 8 days
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When the saints go marching in we’re coming for your head. We’ll use our Bibles as bullets, crush you between our palms and tell you that we’re praying for you. Love is patient, and love is kind, but only if you fall in line. See if you wanna be a soldier in the army of the Lord you must be in formation at all times. If you stray, we’ll shoot you with scriptures that conflict what we do. You gotta be so loyal that you lose sight of your humanity. Because our beliefs transcend our compassion and erase our empathy. If you keep your head bowed but your weapon up you can’t see who you’re shooting. Because we only love our neighbors if they look and think like us. Anyone else is a threat to our existence. Love is not easily angered unless they’re gay or trans. Unless they’re black or brown. In that case, if they do not comply, they deserve to die. Take, eat. Take, eat. This is a body that was broken for us. Worked to the bone, bombed out of its home. Here, cast the first stone. Blood- I mean LOVE is the only thing that knows what the color red really looks like. The Bible says it’s the devil who comes to steal, kill, and destroy but sometimes when people look at us, they can’t tell the difference. That’s why you have to keep your weapon steady and ready. Because love protects and it always perseveres. You don’t need consent, you take back what was never stolen from you. Be sure to use God as life jacket so you don’t drown in the Trail of Tears. How does it feel to hold the hope you stole from someone else? Love isn’t proud, but you can be. Because when you’re a saint, you get to be judge and jury too. You can have all eyes on you and kill thousands if you really want to. Man cannot live on bread alone but even if all they have are the fruits of the spirit, you take all that too. Love. Take and eat. Joy. Take and eat. Peace. Take and eat. This is a body that was broken for you. This is a body that was broken for you. Look at all the bodies waiting to be broken by you. Aren’t you proud to be in this number?
- Jamera NaQuai, When The Saints Go Marching In
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slimbug · 9 days
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Black Joy Is Rebellion. ✊🏾
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slimbug · 13 days
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“To fold yourself in on yourself is where you will find power.”
Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets
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slimbug · 16 days
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“People say drugs and alcohol are the greatest and most persuasive narcotics—the elements most likely to ruin a life. They’re wrong. It’s love.”
-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
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slimbug · 17 days
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“But we’ve been taught that it must, that experience, that learning, is a pathway to salvation; that it’s the point of life. But it isn’t. The ignorant person dies the same way as the educated one. It makes no difference in the end.”
-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
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slimbug · 17 days
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slimbug · 20 days
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I’m a 10 but I’m a black woman so I’m a 100
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slimbug · 21 days
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I really do be having comebacks but they hit too below the belt so I just 🙃
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slimbug · 21 days
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sometimes you just have to. just have to stand in a ray of light and be warm for a minute
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slimbug · 21 days
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slimbug · 21 days
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Katrin Mainz
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slimbug · 26 days
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“And despise not the dark of your skin, for within it is the prime sorcery that moved us from belly-crawl to tall-walk.”
-Robert Jones, Jr, The Prophets
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slimbug · 27 days
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“Talia considered how many people who do horrible things can be victims, and how many victims can be people who do horrible things.”
-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
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slimbug · 27 days
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“… everything you do, and experience, from the moment you begin actively dying, is useless, a futile attempt to change the end of the story. And yet you keep trying to do it anyway…”
-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
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slimbug · 28 days
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“You can never be an orphan. Do you understand? The night sky itself gave birth to you and covers you and names you as her children above all others. First born. Best adorned. Highest thought. Most loved.”
-Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets
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slimbug · 29 days
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“He had come to realize that it was when you were dying that people most wanted things from you— they wanted you to remember, they wanted reassurance, they wanted forgiveness. They wanted acknowledgment and redemption; they wanted you to make them feel better— about the fact that you were leaving while they remained; about the fact that they hated you for leaving them and dreaded it, too; about the fact that your death was reminding them of their own inevitable one; about the fact that they were so uncomfortable that they didn’t know what to say. Dying meant repeating the same things again and again…”
-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
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