Start everything by saying ‘bismillah’. If that contradicts what you are about to do, how then can you proceed?
— (via ireallyamtrying)
Do not let peoples misconceptions and praise deceive you of your own reality.
— Khalid bin Safwan [az-Zuhd al-Kabeer p. 187] (via wordsofsolace)
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.
— Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via humanformat)
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
— Jaime Gil de Bieda (via llenalena)
women don’t have to:
- be thin
- have a vagina
- give birth
- cook for you
- have long hair
- wear makeup
- have sex with you
- be feminine
- be graceful
- shave
- be white
- diet
- be fashionable
- wear pink
- love men
- be the media’s idea of perfection
- listen to your bullshit
When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
— M. Scott Peck (via anatomy-of-recovery)
