📚2025📚 “It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” — James Baldwin

You know what, Dom was right. Family!

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i care. i always care. that’s my problem.

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Stop reaching out first and you’ll see how many dead plants you’ve been watering

i think people forget that having someone who genuinely cares for you is a gift that should not be taken for granted

Ever!!!

Ive become increasingly sad about what "happy places" are as a middle class person in SA. Because the arts, culture, food or even neighborhoods I get to be in are the exception and not the rule. I can't happily just middle class my life unbothered by inequality and exclusion.

Sometimes

Israel is an apartheid state. There’s nothing wholesome about deciding to visit an apartheid state and actively participating in cleansing their image. Thousands of Palestinian women and children are dying everyday!

Such a low hanging, empty take. The constitution & the law is not an end, it’s a means to an end. A vehicle to the kind of society we want. None of it is possible without the political means. No reasonable person can believe the law alone can put food on the table.

people be abusing that soft spot you got for them until it's no longer there

55 years ago on this day, MaNgutyana and her co-accused were released from solitary confinement. The cover of her prison journal is a cropped version of F1 where she is seen holding Martha Dlamini’s granddaughter, Paula. 📸: Drum Social Histories

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I'm so considerate of other people's feelings, so when mine aren't considered, I really take it personal. So, the safest thing for me to do is walk away and to not even get back to how my old self used to be.

I wouldn’t have went through half of the stuff I went through if I just said no and had boundaries

Israel has no right to exist on Palestinian land.