"And it is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by inspiration or from behind a partition or that He sends a messenger to reveal, by His permission, what He wills. Indeed, He is Most High and Wise." - Surah Al-Shura [42:51] :)
Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.
—My Name is Memory, Ann Brashares (via yasodhara)
(Source: wordsfromya)
A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
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Patricia Hill Collins (via sadbrownprincess)
I HATE the concept of community service that high schools and colleges use. For this exact reason. Real activism and service (that is primarily done by the oppressed out of necessity or in support of their own community) is never counted.
(via daniellemertina)
PoC, “third-world”/Global South people and poor people DON’T exist just so some pretentious little white/Western bourgeois fuck can improve their resume and boost their white savior ego. (via the-uncensored-she)
(Source: ellomaria)
Of the perfection of a person is that he leaves what is not appropriate for him.
Cunt again? It was odd how men … used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.
—Asha Greyjoy, A Dance With Dragons (via thalamtnafsee)
(Source: neolution)
This young Hazara boy was photographed in Kabul, Afghanistan. This child is one of hundreds of millions of children in the world who work in factories, fields, mines, and quarries.
The depth of the pain in his eyes, subhan’Allah.
