remember.

“When he tells you that you are nothing don’t believe him and if he can’t learn to love you you should leave him. You know it makes me unhappy when brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy. Since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman, and our game from a woman, I wonder why we take from our women. Why do we rape our women, why do we hate our women? I think it’s time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women and if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies that make the babies. Since a man can’t make one, he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one."
— TuPac Shakur

i figured out why im obsessed with smelling old books!

Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.