April 2013
2 posts
March 2013
8 posts
“As a class, you and I and our friends who comprise the elite are incredibly blind. We refuse to see what we do not want to see. That is why we have not brought about the changes which our society must undergo or be written off. We have no option really; if we do not move we shall be moved. The masses whose name we take in vain are not amused; they do not enjoy their punishment and poverty. We say thoughtlessly that politics is a game of numbers. So it is. The masses own the nation because they have the numbers. And when they move they will do it knowing that God loves them or He would not have made so many of them.”
—
Chinua Achebe ‘The Trouble With Nigeria’ 1983
Could just replace Nigeria with Trinidad….
(via derica)
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
—Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
February 2013
4 posts
“We are all searching
for someone whose demons
play well with ours.” —(via un-gendered)
for someone whose demons
play well with ours.” —(via un-gendered)
Vex
If I live the way you want me to… I am vex,
If I live the way I want… You are vex,
Better you vex.
January 2013
26 posts
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
—Hemingway (via vous-trouvez)
“i was just tired of seeing white walls, with white people, with white wine, you know?”
—Jean-Michel Basquiat (via artismyhustle)
