"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
-Maya Angelou
fearfully-unafraid: probably my favorite picture on the internet & my Twitter header photo 

vastderp:

Being skeptical that another person can be incapacitated by a mental illness because you cope just fine with your problems is basically the same as saying “I don’t understand why other people’s brakes fail, because my car works great.”

fragilitie: ✯
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"When women scream you wonder what’s wrong with them. When men yell you get afraid about what they’re going to do."
-A girl in my creative writing class said this in response to a story we read about witnessing intimate partner violence and it really fucked with my head because I’ve never, ever, ever, thought of it that way.
n-architektur: National Laboratory of Genomics for biodiversity TEN ARQUITECTOS
"Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself ‘pro-life.’"
-John Fugelsang