EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW. EVERYONE.
this vid has single-handedly given me my dose of chuckles for the week.
The Huffington Post reported that Ava Duvernay became the first black woman to win ‘best director’ at Sundance Film Festival Sunday. Her film, Middle of Nowhere is the second full-length feature for the director.
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a. CONGRATS AVA!1!
b. how have i not known about unapproachableblackchicks before now? gpoy!tumblr is the gpoyest.
My tribute to all the Black women who apparently don’t smile enough.
(Source: missjodie)
I can’t stand the guilt trip tumblr posts. I think they’re unfair and condescending. Just because you hit a button to reblog something doesn’t mean you care more than someone who chooses not to.
There’s a tumblr floating around with a baby, naked and covered with some sort of flesh eating bacteria. The photos are sad, overwhelming and disturbing. The story is obfuscated by a bunch of “most people don’t want this on their dash because it changes the blah blah blah” and “if you dont’ have a heart, then don’t reblog this.”.
How fucking dare you. You have no idea how, why or when something affects other people. If they choose to not distribute disturbing pictures, then that’s their right! And the fact that you’re obviously ignoring the original poster’s shameless trolling for reblogs says a lot as well. There is also some suggestion that the more you reblog this, someone is going to send a dollar to some fund. Okay, then why didn’t you include info about how to donate if you choose not to reblog the photo?
Just because you don’t reblog a cancer survivor or a burn victim or a child stricken with a terrible disease does not make you a bad person any more than posting it makes you a good person.
Why not have people do something out of their goodness of their collective hearts rather than using guilt propaganda to have it happen?
It’s getting ridiculous. That baby should not be plastered all over tumblr just so you can push some buttons. It’s disgusting and shameful. If you want someone to help, then ask for help not reblogs.
Stop the bullshit tumblr guilt trips.
I was eight years old when I decided to be an actor. And I am just so privileged to be gazing on the beautiful face of the woman who inspired me that beautiful day, and that’s Cicely Tyson.
And when I woke up and realized how difficult it was to be an actor, and how the rejection was so high, then another beautiful face graced the screen when I was in college, and that was Meryl, who just …always inspires me.
But there’s so many people involved in The Help, in lieu of mentioning all them, I just have to say that, what is there but a dream? You can’t trade in your dream for another dream. I am so proud to be an actor, and I thank the Screen Actors Guild for this award.
And I have a special, special note to the kids in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in Segue Institute of Learning in Central Falls, Rhode Island: to dream big and dream fierce.
Thank you very much.
Me and Phonte (@Phontigallo) back in the studio putting in work on my new solo album… #FEMusic #2012
