The outcome is only uncertain for those who disbelieve.

same energy

Watch: Amandla closes her empowering statement by describing the three things she’s sick of seeing.

oppressors paint famous radicals as soft pacifists because they know quiet rebellion (read: quiet acceptance of the system) won’t get us anywhere. if you manage to convince someone that their hero was peaceful and kind even in the face of oppression, you manage to squash rebellion before it can rise up. 

you silence our voices, but we are still heard.

We need to u n i t e these people out there.

We need to unite the people out there. She’s the face of the rebellion. They’ll follow her.

you silence our voices, but we are still heard.

don’t underestimate me. i’ll wear sweaters in the summer. i’ll eat like eighteen gallons of ice cream in the winter. fuck the temperature. i don’t give a fuck

In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson, Eartha Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. Kitt was invited to the White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.”

During a question and answer session, Kitt stated:

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons — and I know what it’s like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson — we raise children and send them to war.

Her remarks reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Kitt’s career

and he’s done it for me

Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over.

“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”

Interesting.

also michelangelo painted a baby angel flipping off the pope

the blond one, you see his right hand? that’s called the fig and it’s an old world european gesture for ‘fuck you” because apparently Pope Juluis II was a total raging asshole and everyone hated him

but nobody ever noticed this little fucker because the ceiling was so high

and then thirty years later they called michelangelo back to paint the wall behind the altar and he wasted no time in painting the gates of hell behind the pope’s chair

what a badass

It amuses me to this day how much Michelangelo hated his job

He was like the Renaissance Robert Pattinson

throwing this in - the huge painting behind the altar? yeah, towards the lower right corner where “judgment day” is happening, he’s drawn himself but not really; there’s somebody there holding a whole human skin with a face LITERALLY LIKE A PERSON BUT IF YOU REMOVED ALL THE INSIDES and it’s a face and it’s HIM, he snuck himself in in as grotesque a manner as possible literally just to screw with the church people

Hunger Games Comparison:

"Rue’s death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence."

They pick us, they watch us. We survive, but they win.

And surely, two people who have caused the Capitol so much trouble can think of a way to get Peeta home alive.

Fandango interview’s Jennifer Lawrence at Comic Con

"It’s important for our generation to know how powerful even just one voice can be, and how dangerous it is when we don't fight back."