In Africa, when an old man dies, a library disappears.
—Amadou Hampaté Ba (via theuncolonizedmind)
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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wow bees kill themselves just to hurt others but they’re not considered terrorists because they’re not muslim smh at the media
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Palestine became a predominately Arab and Islamic country by the end of the seventh century. Almost immediately thereafter its boundaries and its characteristics — including its name in Arabic, Filastin — became known to the entire Islamic world, as much for its fertility and beauty as for its religious significance…In 1516, Palestine became a province of the Ottoman Empire, but this made it no less fertile, no less Arab or Islamic…Sixty percent of the population was in agriculture; the balance was divided between townspeople and a relatively small nomadic group. All these people believed themselves to belong in a land called Palestine, despite their feelings that they were also members of a large Arab nation…Despite the steady arrival in Palestine of Jewish colonists after 1882, it is important to realize that not until the few weeks immediately preceding the establishment of Israel in the spring of 1948 was there ever anything other than a huge Arab majority. For example, the Jewish population in 1931 was 174,606 against a total of 1,033,314.
—Edward Said, “The Question of Palestine.” (via thepeacefulterrorist)
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Return is the dream of generations. It’s my dream, the dream of my family, people and country. We must be united to make it true . The refugee camp reminds me everyday that I am a refugee and I will not stay here forever .
—Dalia Abu Aker, a 16-year old descendant of a refugee from Ras Abu Amar village, to the west of Jerusalem, who resides with her family in the West Bank refugee camp of Aldihishi.(x)
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My dude straight loving him some nsync.
FUCK HAHA
LMAO!!!!
I’m crying laughing.
Rochelle Ballantyne, 17, of Brooklyn is taking the chess world by storm. She is on the verge of becoming the first African-American female chess master…
Clutch Magazine, via Jezebel
Bless this beautiful baby genius.
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