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^ they all deserve to be shot in the hands so they can no longer peruse the internet. That’s blasphemy.
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this was tagged “the kinks” FOR SHAME YOUNG PEOPLE, FOR SHAME!!!!
^ they all deserve to be shot in the hands so they can no longer peruse the internet. That’s blasphemy.
(Source: amberrhands)
On this day, in 1967, American writer and social-activist, Langston Hughes died of prostate cancer at the age of 65.
Hughes is widely considered to be one of the most important black writers of the 20th century.
In 1926 he published “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” in The…
I can’t wait. I am going to this exhibit this weekend!
Both men stood up tall, singing about some “hold on me,”
and slinging peace unto their breasts,
hoping to nurse their souls for free.
The ships in their hearts were sailing,
away from folly and fear.
It was their souls that had been ailing,
with troubling words that neared.
One of these men, standing upright, had curls in his hair.
He trembled at the thought that his scripts
could never appear as true and charming,
as the skin he’d always bear.
Both men came to a gunfight with no ammo or bullets,
instead they built themselves wings,
from wax and lint in every pocket.
The second of these men always accepted a new deed.
For he prayed that these challenges
were not cumbersome as his labor,
or warranted him a man of greed.
But both of these men still ached with grief,
with the desire that somebody they used to know,
could bring them both relief.
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“War is gray business.”
‘Howl’ poet Allen Ginsberg tried to calm tensions by leading protestors in an ‘Om’ chant.