im saying
Billie Holiday, 1958. Photographer: Dennis Stock (via)
“I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the word ‘love.’ Maybe I remember what those words are all about. Maybe I’m proud enough to want to remember Baltimore and Welfare Island, the Catholic institution and the Jefferson Market Court, the sheriff in front of our place in Harlem and the towns from coast to coast where I got my lumps and scars, Philly and Alderson, Hollywood and San Francisco, every damn bit of it.
All the Cadillacs and minks in the world - and I’ve had a few - can’t make it up or make me forget it. All I’ve learned in all those places from all those people is wrapped up in those two words. You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave. Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that.”
-Holiday, quoted in Lady Sings the Blues (1956)
i like big butts
guys
i just want my man deep inside me
unhealthy food makes headaches go away
what a concept
i wonder who i could have learned that from without my dad
oh yeah Zane
i need to stop judging people so harshly
because i get it
i guess it’s out of my fear of being judged by other people
but really it’s because there’s nothing else i have to say
but i’ll be alone if i say nothing
that’s the other thing that scares me even though i try to make it so sometimes
no
i’m just scared of what people say about me
i know there’s a lot of things to say
i’m sorry for those things
i’m sorry for adding to the cycle
i’m sorry for being aware of it and doing nothing
it’s shitty
lovely people make me happy
finals week make you tweak
abstain from drugs but boyfriend hugs don’t stop the stress from pushing you to your best but your health gets less
good
bler
i like coffee a lot i like coffee a lot
girls who make Facebook statuses about love but the longest relationship they’ve had lasted a month
and the girl who made you think this llikes your status immediately after you posted
It’s hard not to cry when you realize how beautiful your life is
