9:11 PM
Can we talk about how perfect they are in this medley/duet?
also, can Assaf win already
While you let your “inner black woman” out and start rolling your neck and ‘mhmm’-ing everything allow me to let out my inner lapd officer and beat the shit out of you.
"There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. It is unquestionably the most diverse, the most eclectic religion in the history of the world. This concept of just using this word “they” to describe one-and-a-half billion people is actually the definition of bigotry."
— Reza Aslan (via ma-riam)
I am not exotic. I am exhausted. French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada
Palestinian man raises the Palestinian flag during an israeli demonstration in tel aviv.
It’s funny to see how white foreigners will write you off as just “another Egyptian” until they hear your unaccented English…then you become the most interesting specimen to them, something that doesn’t fit in their discriminative binary.
Or the white foreigners who complain so much about this country, but don’t want to leave because their husbands work for rich oil companies.
If you’re racist and you know it, please leave my country, habaybi.
yes.
"she is hemorrhging
and
you
her son
steps over her
showers
puts on a suit
and
tells everyone
that
she stabbed herself."
and
you
her son
steps over her
showers
puts on a suit
and
tells everyone
that
she stabbed herself."
—
the short knife, nayyirah waheed
in response to president obamas address on africa:
“I think part of what’s hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we’ve made excuses about corruption or poor governance, that this was somehow the consequence of neo-colonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism – I’m not a big – I’m not a believer in excuses.
“The West and the United States has not been responsible for what’s happened to Zimbabwe’s economy over the last 15 or 20 years.”
the drones.
this.
i am heartbroken.
(via nayyirahwaheed)
"هل تسمحون لي
ان اعلم صغيرتي ان الدين هو اخلاق وأدب وتهذيب
وامانة وصدق، قبل ان اعلمها بأي قدم تدخل الحمام وبأي يد تأكل؟"
ان اعلم صغيرتي ان الدين هو اخلاق وأدب وتهذيب
وامانة وصدق، قبل ان اعلمها بأي قدم تدخل الحمام وبأي يد تأكل؟"
—
An Excerpt from Nizar Qabbani’s Would You Permit Me
Would you permit me
to teach my little one that religion is about good manners, good behaviour, good conduct, honesty and truthfulness, before I teach her with which foot to enter the bathroom or with which hand she should eat?
(via kolkhara)
"I say until we have someone [a President] who knows what they’re doing, I say, let Allah sort it out."
—
Sarah Palin on Syria - Raw Story (via brooklynmutt)
I cannot wait until Allah sorts you out.
Discourse on the Logic of Language
English
is my mother tongue.
A mother tongue is not
a foreign lan lan lang
language
l/anguish
anguish
–a foreign anguish.
English
is my father tongue.
A father tongue is
a foreign language,
therefore English is
a foreign language
not a mother tongue.
What is my mother
tongue
my mammy tongue
my mummy tongue
my moms tongue
my modder tongue
my ma tongue?
I have no mother
tongue
no mother to tongue
no tongue to mother
to mother
tongue
me
I must therefore be tongue
dumb
dumb-tongued
dub-tongued
damn dumb
tongue
"The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else"
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else"
— Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
