“You Want To Be People? Let’s Be People.”

i saw the tv glow is awesome bc its terrifying in a transgender "if i keep pushing this down and down and down i will be slowly letting myself die" way but also its even just scary as "a man in the moon traps you in a dimension out of time built to psychologically torture you with suburbia"

the epic highs and tragic lows of literally just being in my head on a perfectly normal day

Sharing a Cigarette with Joan of Arc, Dante Émile

Since I was very young, I’ve been terrified of my own potential to do evil. No vision or dream taught me. From experience, I recognized that people, like things, are fragile; that they are endlessly imbricated; that intention and effect often have no relation; that I, insofar as I knew myself, contained malice, and that other people did too, because I’d suffered theirs. At a young age, I vowed to be “unselfish,” my version of harm being equated with the primacy of the self. I’ve developed a more sophisticated morality, but that vow is deeply embedded. I do, in fact, seek to be good, despite the inevitability of failure. I don’t think this is just a hangover of childhood habit; in the Bible I have found truth as well as beauty, and in theologians like James Cone and Howard Thurman, among many others, I have found a vision of Christianity written by and for the oppressed. […] Do you see God everywhere? Now what will you do?

— Elisa Gonzalez, in “No Good Has Come: Marilynne Robinson’s testimony for the white church”

@keiynanlonsdale:   That pure wonder you had as a kid is not lost forever, I promise you. The truth is that it can become infinitely more amazing as you grow up & glow up - that happens only when despite your very awareness of life’s painful challenges & heart breaks… you learn how to see the light anyway and you use it to keep moving & smiling! Let go of yourself, let go of the mind that tells you stories, let go of all the judgement & all expectation. Just simply… be. That’s joy. 🌻🌻🌻❤️❤️❤️🌊🌊🌊👑👑👑🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🌈🌈🌈🔑🔑🔑🌎🌍🌏

Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life