Tough Realizations Of Life

[cwote]

People are allowed to leave you.
People are allowed to break up with you.
People are allowed to love you but not want to be with you.
People are allowed to not want to talk to you.
People are allowed to put their happiness before yours and do what makes them happy, even if it does not include you.
People are allowed to move on from you.
People are allowed to fall in love with someone else.
People are allowed to not want you in their life.
People are allowed to do whatever they want to better themselves and become the version of themselves they are trying so hard to love.
Don’t be bitter towards someone who is only trying to be happy.

[theleoisallinthemind]

bernard benant

[5hading]

My sister, her husband, and their two kids 11 years ago.

I ain’t gon’ lie, I want this.

They’ve been together since they was 16. They’re now 40 and still together. This is the only lasting, healthy relationship I’ve ever seen.

[nurleur]

“African thinking, African philosophy, is a big thing. But Africans think and Africans do in a different way. They create art, they create philosophy, they create art more monumental than Michelangelo, and they never signed their name. Because they lived in a society that is collective. While the Europeans live in a society that is individual. That is why you are trapped in this society. They lived in a ‘we’ society and Europeans live in a ‘me’ society. It’s a different kind of concept. The Africans lived for the totality, the collectiveness of the whole society. And the Europeans live for the ‘me-ness’ of the individual in the society. This is why every time you see a piece of European art you see somebody’s name under it. But yet the Benin art of Africa there’s nobodies name. Who created the Benin art, the great art of Egypt, the great river art of the Nigel, the art of Nigeria, all this art? This art is as good and sometimes better than the best of Europe. Yet the artist didn’t even sign their name. Because the art was created for the whole people.”

— Dr. John Henrik Clarke

[ata-z]

So Fresh, So Clean // Outkast

[jee-q]

words are too easy. you’ve got to show me