THOUGHTS CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONNECTING

An image
is a bridge between evoked emotion
 and conscious knowledge;
words are the cables
that hold up the bridge.

Images are more direct,
more immediate than words,
and closer to the unconscious.






Picture language
precedes thinking in words;
the metaphorical mind
precedes analytical consciousness”


- Gloria Anzaldua

Author Of  "This Bridge Called My Back"

BEAUTIFUL FAILURES

“As women, we are programmed to be submissive toward men and to let them down gently when we are not attracted to them, or else we are a ‘prude’.

And if we are very sexually attracted to them, we must passively accept the offer and not seem too keen - because that would make us a ‘slut’.

And if we aren’t attracted to men all together, then we must accept criticism and ‘flattery’ - such as the “can I watch, then?” or “how do you know, if you haven’t tried dick?” and the most FLATTERING of all, “it’s such a waste for you to be a lesbian.”

At the end of the day, as women, we are programmed to be owned by men. Our sexuality isn’t valued as highly as men’s is. Our ability to say ‘no’ is quashed by the contradictory social expectation of us to be both sexy and ladylike. Society has set out an unachievable route to being an acceptable woman, and we are all beautiful failures.”

-unknown

CARING FOR YOUR SOUL

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

~ Jean Shinoda Bolen 

REVOLUTION WITHIN THE SELF FIRST

“Black women’s experiences as bloodmothers, othermothers, and community othermothers reveal that the mythical norm of a heterosexual married couple, nuclear family with a nonworking spouse and a husband earning a “family wage” is far from being natural, universal, and preferred but instead is deeply embedded in specific race and class formations.”

...[D]omination operates by seducing, pressuring, or forcing African-American women and members of subordinated groups to replace individual and cultural ways of knowing with the dominant group's specialized thought.

As a result, suggests Audre Lorde,
"the true focus of revolutionary change
is never
merely the oppressive situations
which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor
which is planted
deep
within each of us."

Or as Toni Cade Bambara succinctly states, "revolution begins with the self, in the self."

HAPPY FRIDAY - ON ENTHUSIASM !

May you never lose your enthusiasm at any moment for the rest of your life: it’s your greatest strength, intent on the final victory. You cannot let it slip through your fingers just because as time passes we have to face some small and necessary defeats.”

— Paulo Coelho 

HAPPY FRIDAY QUOTE

QUOTE ON Kings, Queens, and Slavery

 

Occurred to me long ago.  Glad to be in agreement.

QUOTE ON Going Your Own Way

ProLife? A Quote

A QUOTE ON RACIAL RELATIONS IN THE U.S.

I-I-I HEEEAAARD THAT!!! Obsessed With Racism

JUST A THOUGHT Veterans and Slaveholders

Tracee Ellis Ross

www.forharriett.com