Acceptance not needed. Open minds please

helo i am your #1 fan i come many miles to see u

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:20:36 -0500

helo i am your #1 fan i come many miles to see u

that awkward moment when you forget you have a tumblr ‘til someone sends you crazy bs -___-

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:18:29 -0500

that awkward moment when you forget you have a tumblr ‘til someone sends you crazy bs -___-

How’d I get so lucky?

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:49:01 -0500

How’d I get so lucky?

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fuckyeahethnicwomen: (via Where Professional Models Meet Model...

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fuckyeahethnicwomen:

(via Where Professional Models Meet Model Photographers - ModelMayhem)

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petewentz-: b-ear-claws: This is beautiful. Everyone should...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:53:43 -0500

petewentz-:

b-ear-claws:

This is beautiful. Everyone should take their time to look at this or it least reblog it.

I don't understand what's so wrong with me. :(

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:56:47 -0500

i dare you to walk a mile in my high heels. 5 bucks says you'll quit.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:35:28 -0400

Oprah: The big question I have for you is this: Where did your...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:34:21 -0400

Oprah: The big question I have for you is this: Where did your confidence come from? I’ve never seen anybody who exudes more confidence than you, and I don’t mean false, modest bravado, but from the inside out, you’ve got the stuff.

Maya: There are so many gifts, so many blessings, so many sources that I can’t say any one thing—unless that one thing is love. By love I don’t mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don’t even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God. To make it. To imagine golden roads. That condition that allowed the “dumb” to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it’s so much larger than anything I can conceive. It may be the element that keeps the stars in the firmament. And that love, and its many ways of coming into my life, has given me a great deal of confidence about life.

Oprah: So when you walk into a room and heads turn, it’s not just confidence in yourself that we see?

Maya: Oh, no. That’s why, though I was never pretty, I did command something—because of my reliance on life.

Oprah: When we see you, we’re seeing all of your history.

Maya: That’s right—all of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I’m bringing everything I ever knew [and all the stories I’ve read]—everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody’s racism or sexism or ageism. I will not. So I will take the Scandinavian story of the little princess, I will take the story of Heidi in the Alpine mountains, I will take the story of O-Lan in Pearl S. Buck’s book The Good Earth, I will take them all. I take them, and I know them, and I am them. So when I walk into a room, people know that somebody has come in—they just don’t know it’s 2,000 people!

Oprah: How do you remain connected to those who came before you?

Maya: I have the blessing of seeing our connection and the courage to admit what I see. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, “I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.” Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, “Yes, I deserve it.”

Oprah: I know you don’t believe in modesty.

Maya: I hate it. It makes me wary. Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Oprah: So when you hear someone being modest….

Maya: I run like hell. The minute you say to a singer, “Would you sing?” and they say, “Oh, no. I can’t sing here,” I say, “Oops! I wonder, where is that train to Bangkok?”

Oprah: Because?

Maya: Because that person is not reliable. She may not know it, but modesty speaks volumes about falseness.

(credit: Oprah magazine, December 2000)

gimme?

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:27:31 -0400

gimme?

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it's been a while, tumblr

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:16 -0400

youwantmexxxo: I always loved Adrina.

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:11:21 -0400

youwantmexxxo:

I always loved Adrina.

ameile: Vogue Paris May 2002

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:10:30 -0400

ameile:

Vogue Paris May 2002

for alyssa

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:07:24 -0400

for alyssa

for Sara

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:56:46 -0400

for Sara

je-menfous: Ellie Goulding — “Starry Eyed”Brit pop guilty...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:54:44 -0400

je-menfous:

Ellie Goulding — “Starry Eyed”

Brit pop guilty pleasure, oh yes