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People tell me I think too much. I know this. But after someone does stupid shit others often ask, “What were you thinking?” The reply is usually, “I don’t know,” or this classic, “I wasn’t.” I’d rather think too much and do stupid shit a lot less because of it.
R. Nineke
- Tonight we are young, so let’s set the world on fire. We can burn brighter than the sun.
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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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One of the things I learned the hard way was it does not pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and
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Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal.
But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred Loving, of African American and Native American descent.
The case changed history - and was captured on film by LIFE photographer Grey Villet, whose black-and-white photographs are now set to go on display at the International Center of Photography.
Twenty images show the tenderness and family support enjoyed by Mildred and Richard and their three children, Peggy, Sidney and Donald.
The children, unaware of the struggles their parents face, are captured by Villet as blissfully happy as they play in the fields near their Virginia home or share secrets with their parents on the couch.
Their parents, caught sharing a kiss on their front porch, appear more worry-stricken.
And it is no wonder - eight years prior, the pair had married in the District of Columbia to evade the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which banned any white person marrying any non-white person.
But when they returned to Virginia, police stormed into their room in the middle of the night and they were arrested.
The pair were found guilty of miscegenation in 1959 and were each sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for 25 years if they left Virginia.
They moved back to the District of Columbia, where they began the long legal battle to erase their criminal records - and justify their relationship.
Following vocal support from the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches, the Lovings won the fight - with the Supreme Court branding Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law unconstitutional in 1967.
It wrote in its decision: ‘Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man, fundamental to our very existence and survival.
‘To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law.’ [Read more]
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Young novelist William Saroyan dreamed of one day editing a magazine, and so in 1936 sought advice on that very aspiration from the great H. L. Mencken, a hugely influential man who had, in the 1920s, founded and edited his own title.
Saroyan sent him a polite letter. Mencken responded with the priceless reply seen below.
(Source: The New Mencken Letters; Image: H.L. Mencken, courtesy of Enoch Pratt Free Library.)25 January, 1936
San Fransisco, California
Dear Saroyan,
I note what you say about your aspiration to edit a magazine. I am sending you by this mail a six-chambered revolver. Load it and fire every one into your head. You will thank me after you get to hell and learn from other editors there how dreadful their job was on earth.
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Lena Horne took on one of her few acting roles as the temptress Georgia Brown in Cabin in the Sky and it proved to be the ideal showcase for her musical talents and natural beauty. Minnelli originally intended to introduce Horne’s sexy character in a bubble bath scene but the censors refused to let him film it. Later, it appeared in a 1946 Pete Smith short subject entitled Studio Visit. As Horne later said in the documentary That’s Entertainment! III in which the excised performance was also featured, it was felt that to show a black woman singing in a bath went beyond the bounds of moral decency in 1943.
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legit ♥
I shot and edited a short film. I filmed it with some friends, documentary style, on a recent trip away from the city. Then I put all the footage together to make a narrative or portrait of a couple that’s about 180 degrees from my friends. I hope you enjoy the experiment.
music by Andrew Sellers of Saredren Wells.
(this is a re-edit of the original video posted)
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OMG
sometimes you have to reblog things you don’t want to reblog.
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Don’t let me be the last to know
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Money, Fame, or Respect?
Lindsay Lohan may or may not have more $+fame than two of her co-stars from 2004’s Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Alison Pill and Megan Fox). But the other two are both working actresses with substantially more work under their belts. Isn’t it something, how an opportunity can be intended as a vehicle for one person, but squandered, yet worked to the advantage of another?
Which matters most? The income, the recognition, or the respect for your work? Honestly?
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