Janet Jackson Photographed By Firooz Zahedi As Dorothy Dandridge, 1996.  

Janet Jackson - That’s The Way Love Goes/If (VMAS 1993)

Janet Jackson- “Doesn’t Really Matter” (2000)

Grown-ish 3x08 - Zoey’s 90’s Party + the inspirations

When people say life is worth living, I think their cost/benefit analysis is off for people who aren't neurotypical. Cost-wise, they're probably not considering the huge amounts of energy exhausted just managing one's mental health, and the pain, and the isolation, etc. Benefit-wise, they're not realizing that some joys of life just aren't accessible to certain types of people (especially if your brain doesn't make a whole lot of happy chemical).

Who am I kidding, they put no thought into it, they just say it because it sounds nice.

Janet Jackson "The Velvet Rope" Oprah Interview 97'

album series part 2: crimson

we all have the need to feel special...and this need can bring out the best in us...and the worst in us.....this need created the velvet rope

Toni Braxton - “Let it Flow” directed by Herb Ritts (1996)

Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Marcus Schenkenberg photographed by Herb Ritts for Absolut Versace (1997)

okay but like, i think that one of the things that really hit me hard in the special episode was that shit about addiction, and how, if she was keeping drugs ‘just in case’ she was never fully committed to staying clean. I feel like as someone who has struggled with s*lf h*rm and other things this is an excellent point that i kind of always understood but never really accepted. Even when I stay clean for months if i ever feel like relapsing i can because i’ve never been brave enough to make the means inaccessible, and when i think about that I guess it shows that i’ve never commited to truely ceasing to hurt myself. It’s definetly some interesting food for thought. 

Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice (1993)