May 2012
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May 30th
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences,...”
– C. S. Lewis (via amorette)
May 30th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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“I really hate to bring this up, but there is no Huck. No Bilbo Baggins. No, not...”
– Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Novels Like a Professor. (via realkidsgoodbooks)
May 25th
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May 25th
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“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how...”
– Daniel Franzese (via creatingaquietmind)
May 25th
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May 25th
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“Malia and Sasha and a bunch of my friends and Michelle had sort of like a roast,...”
– President Obama Obama Talks Singing, Kim Kardashian and Sports on ‘The View’ (via barackobama)
May 24th
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May 24th
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“This practice of whitewashing in Hollywood has been going on for a long time....”
– Aasif Mandvi was on CNN today discussing the practice of whitewashing! (via racebending)
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than...”
– “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf) We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking. (via benedictatorship) And...
May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone...”
– rainer maria rilke (via dreamhampton1)
May 21st
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May 20th
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Me and Books
me: *just finished reading Harry Potter*
me: I WANT TO STUDY AT HOGWAAAARTS!
me: *just finished reading Lord of the Rings*
me: I want to have an adventure in Middle Earth
me: *just finished The Lightning Thief*
me: I wish I was a demigod.
me: *just finished The Hunger Games*
me: I'm good.
May 20th
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“I have spent a lot of time and money throughout history convincing everyone that...”
– Whitewashing, a history From “Tiffany’s” to “Khan,” we look at Hollywood’s illustrious tradition of casting white actors in non-white roles By Aasif Mandvi First, stop watching movies as ethnic people and start watching them as white people. There’s nothing that white people like more than...
May 20th
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May 20th
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“Now back to the question of “Do you ever turn your brain off and just...”
– Lindsay Ellis
May 19th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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“My biggest problem is that there is simply no creativity in movies with black...”
– A commenter on “Why I’m Just Saying No to ‘The Help’” (via atrapforfools) FUCKING THIS. (via so-treu) Pretty much.  (via kyssthis16) SO. MUCH. THIS. TIMES. INFINITY. (via squeetothegee) my response the next time anyone ever asks me any question about “but why can’t you just like the show and...
May 18th
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May 17th
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