People are far too concerned with the sexual orientation of people they aren’t having sex with.
Goddess.
Basically me with white men.
(Source: tangoingturians, via coloredgirlconsideringrevolution)
| BADU: | How do you choose chicks from backstage? |
|---|---|
| LAMAR: | How do I choose chicks from backstage? |
| BADU: | Yeah, what is the protocol? |
| LAMAR: | I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid. |
| BADU: | [laughs] So you just pass? |
| LAMAR: | I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head. |
| BADU: | So who is your asshole-checker? |
| LAMAR: | Who is my what? |
| BADU: | Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole. |
| LAMAR: | I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element. |
| BADU: | What’s your favorite cereal? |
| LAMAR: | Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks. |
| BADU: | What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman? |
| LAMAR: | There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante… |
| BADU: | That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me. |
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If you don’t know, now you know
You’re welcome.
(via twurkysandwich)
Relativity.
I don’t think
about you much
anymore.I don’t think
about air either,
but I need it to breathe.
coloredgirlconsideringrevolution:
why do men think it’s necessary for me to smile all the damn time?
my male managers say “you should smile more” (at them)
- i smile at my customers
- i smile at my coworkers
- i do this when it is necessary or when i feel like it
- i don’t do it when it is necessary to be firm and taken more seriously
so don’t ask me to smile more when what you really mean is can you be more docile and less direct with us, we don’t like it when you get serious.
This is everything
(Source: leilockheart, via steffykisses)
By George Condon and Jim O’Sullivan
Bernard Anderson, a pathbreaking African-American economist, understands the importance of rhetoric. He was up front at the Lincoln Memorial when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. And he was in the audience on the Howard University campus in 1965 to hear President Johnson deliver a grim view of the state of black America and declare war on “past injustice and present prejudice.”So Anderson had high hopes as he sat at home in Pennsylvania watching President Obama deliver his second Inaugural Address this year. He wanted Obama to acknowledge that even five decades after Johnson’s stirring oration, African-Americans in today’s America still struggle against discrimination. And when the president started talking about “We, the people,” the veteran civil-rights champion grew excited. “As he was going through ‘We, the people’ and ‘We, the people,’ my heart started to beat,” Anderson said. But just as fast, his spirits sank. “I didn’t find me among the people he was talking about.”
Eleven days later, Anderson—an early supporter and fundraiser for Obama, an Obama delegate in 2008, and an expert on economic disparities who has been called to the Obama White House several times—allowed himself to vent his frustration and call for more high-level attention to the black community’s economic challenges.
Grumbling that he had heard “not a single blessed word on race” in the Inaugural Address, Anderson told attendees at the fourth annual African-American Economic Summit at Howard, “I believe now is the time for the president to find his voice, summon his courage, and use some of his political capital to eliminate racial inequality in American economic life.” To applause, he added, “We cannot let the president off the hook in the second term. Black people gave him a pass in the first term…. He is not going to run for anything. He doesn’t deserve a pass anymore.”
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