what do you call a hooker that you pay with spaghetti?
a pastatute
how many people unfollowed you because of this
20
(via weezy-bake-oven)
As we enter the woods,
the astonished wolf lifts its mouth from the lamb.
the astonished wolf lifts its mouth from the lamb.
Traci Brimhall, from “The Visitation” (via the-final-sentence)
(Source: iopoetry.org, via the-final-sentence)
If you want proof that gun control works just look at the fact that in Australia people have now twice tried to assassinate the prime minister with sandwiches
(via chippedteacups)
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.
George Eliot (via cite-belle)
(via lajoiedespetiteschoses)
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.
Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)
Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.
The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.
Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.
(via fishingboatproceeds)(via fishingboatproceeds)
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
