“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second”
— Marc Riboud (via photojojo)
I’ve never set out to write a funny movie or be in a funny movie as a woman. I AM a woman; I don’t really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nathanielstuart)
Black And Twisty
A romance genre rant.
yeah, so, this needs to be outside of a read more cut:
Apparently, we cheer and are moved to tears when White girls spend years hung up on their feelings and trying to decide what they want. White girls get to be devastated indefinitely if someone breaks their heart, even if it’s a vampire and the bitch shoulda known better, even if it means fleeing to other countries, eating pasta, and shagging handsome young strangers until they get over it. White women get to bask in having their hands held and being romanced from every direction, until they recuperate from their losses and make a decision. No one questions their right to feel how they feel and figure out what will make them happy.
Women of color don’t get to wonder about themselves or what they want because every-fucking-body—including some salty ass WoC—say that we ought to buck up and be grateful if anyone says that they love us, without asking any questions about how that love applies to our lives or overwhelms what we want. We only get to have anxiety and uncertainty if the story is a cautionary tale that ends with us being unloved and possibly dead. Apparently nobody is going to love us with flaws, or see us through any kind of personal growth, since bitches can’t even be bothered to do so for pretend in the course of a fictional story.
So yeah, I think I should just start writing White women. I used to raise a brow at Shonda because she lavished so much energy on dark and twisty Meredith Grey, but you know what? I’m starting to wonder how long she shopped around a Black and twisty Meredith before she threw up her hands.
- preach.
- this is why i have never had a pressing desire to watch the notebook.
- i continue to pray for impressionable, young woc.
- i had not come to this realization yet about shonda and it is blowing my mind. scandal is only an actual thing now because she “proved” herself first with ga and pp. let alone the fact that it is amazing, regardless of liv’s race, and is her best show to date. makes me wonder what else shonda has up her sleeve.
- be, the world needs women like you and shonda, and the many, many other woc who fight. haters to the left.
Storyteller
This morning, I told a story that brought my grandmother back to life.
thanks for being so good at being you.
“Malia and Sasha and a bunch of my friends and Michelle had sort of like a roast, a little private roast, each one of them read something and Malia and Sasha had written out why I am such a wonderful dad. And they had this list, it was so sweet, and one of the items on Malia’s list was, ‘You are just the right amount of embarrassing.’”
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President Obama
Obama Talks Singing, Kim Kardashian and Sports on ‘The View’
(via barackobama)
“TO THE WINDOW, (to the window), TO THE WALL, (to the wall), TILL A WOMAN CAN OWN IT ALL, TILL THERE’S EQUALITY FOR ALL, AWWW, UNITY MOTHERFUCKERS, AWWWW UNITY, GOD DAMN.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s own. (via authorsrappingthings)
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I’d discovered Shakespeare - ‘hey, there’s a new guy in town, don’t know if anyone’s read him.’ I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.
