whipped cream - ari lennox
You’ve been everywhere
And I wish I didn’t care
"There’s been a whole revolution, led by African America for sure, where we are embracing our natural hair texture and returning to a past glory."
— Lupita Nyong’o (x)
"The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark."
— Jamaica Kincaid, from On Seeing England for the First Time (via derica)
"I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."
— Friedrich Nietzsche (via ekstaas)
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I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out.
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
"— Sylvia Plath (x)
“Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I could see where I came from very clearly.”
— James Baldwin (x)