Alex K.: 45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old

kangalex:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short not to enjoy it.

4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay…

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b-r-e-a-t-h-l-e-ss: I think hes done everything but the slow dancing
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soulbrotherv2: African-American Proverbs in Context (Publications of the American Folklore Society. New Series) by Sw. Anand Prahlad From slave times to the present the proverb has been a mainstay in African-American communication. Such sayings as “Hard times make a monkey eat red pepper when he don’t care for black,” “The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice,” and “Nothing ruins a duck but its bill” convey not only axiomatic impact but also profound contextual meanings. This study of African-American proverbs is the first to probe deeply into these meanings and contexts. Sw. Anand Prahlad’s interest in proverbs dates back to his own childhood in rural Virginia when he listened to his great grandmother’s stories. Very early he began collecting “sayings,” and, in researching this book, he spent five years listening to proverbs spoken in bars, clubs, churches, and retirement homes; on street corners, basketball courts, and public buses; at PTA meetings and bingo games. To discover the full context of a proverb, Prahlad considers four levels of meanings—grammatical, cultural, situational, and symbolic. The grammatical level refers to its literal meanings, the cultural level to its associations shared by most members of the cultural group, the situational level to the specific situation in which the proverb is spoken, and the symbolic to the speaker’s own personal associations with the proverb. All these operate simultaneously when a proverb is spoken. Since the speaker may be fully aware of all levels, part of the artistry in using proverbs comes from the complex interplay of the dimensions of their meanings.
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howiviewafrica: The best person fit to be you is you!
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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World  
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loveandjealousy: glamlifeeee: justalittlepieceandquiet: joshutchersonn:                                               Anne Hathaway at Met Ball 2013! yessssssssssssss!!!!!!! !!!!!! perfection
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Let them miss you. Sometimes when you’re always available, they take you for granted because they think you’ll always stay.

— Anonymous (via emtc)
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