March 2012
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Chicago's Male Urban Prep Academy Sending EACH Of... →
Proof that quality education can close the achievement gap. All students can learn and achieve at high levels if you challenge them to.
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From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
– Cat Stevens (via claytoncubitt)
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
– Stendhal (via claytoncubitt)
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CONSTANT SIEGE: Lester Burnham on life →
claytoncubitt:
“I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me… but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop…
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I FOULD ICE CUBE'S GOOD DAY by Murk Avenue
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where...
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Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the...
– Rush Limbaugh, “35 Undeniable Truths of Life”, Sacramento Union, 13 March 1988
this is disgusting.
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Fake Meat America Could Love →
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“Isn’t it preferable, at least some of the time, to eat plant products mixed with water that have been put through a thingamajiggy that spews out meatlike stuff, instead of eating those same plant products put into a chicken that does its biomechanical thing for the six weeks of its miserable existence, only to have its throat cut in the service of yielding barely distinguishable...
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Santigold - Disparate Youth
I’ve loved Santigold since she was Santogold. But a lawsuit from a director named Santo Victor Rigatuso, who produced a movie no one has ever heard of called Santo Gold’s Blood Circus, changed things. I got turned on to her because of Diplo and my long time favorite album of his “Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub.” Check it all out.
I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow....
– Tupac Shakur (via unapologetically-black)
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