20:45"It is not surprising that young white males – most between thirty and forty – play major roles in the production of hip-pop. It’s easy to forget this because when most people critique rap and hip-pop harshly, they assume that young black men are the sole creators and producers of misogynist rap. In fact, nothing is unilaterally produced anymore. As we’ve discussed, once you have a corporate takeover of the street culture, it is no longer the property of the young, Black and Latino men and women who have created it. It is reinvented with the mass consumer audience in mind. The hard-core misogyny and the hard-core sexism isn’t a translation from street to big-time studio, it is a product of the big-time studio." —
bell hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism (via eastafrodite)
You would think this is obvious.
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01:19"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." — Frédéric François Chopin (via migeru)
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00:01"There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar." — Chuch Palahniuk (via ohdylan)
05:31"The worst feeling isn’t being lonely. It’s being forgotten by someone you would never forget." — (via ayeeitskeanu)
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21:23"But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are." — Don Cheadle (via alecshao)
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09:06"But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin." — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via nirvikalpa)
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