I Cant Take This Anymore, I Just Cant. Everything Is Falling Apart And Im Just Freaking Out. What Am

I cant take this anymore, i just cant. Everything is falling apart and im just freaking out. What am i doing with my life?!?!?!??!?!

no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice

Chadwick Aaron Boseman, November 29, 1976-August 28, 2020.

Personally, one of my favorite actors. He brought to life so many amazing roles, and he will be, truly missed. RIP

Black Portraiture in the Renaissance

Top - Cameo of a Black Woman, Girolamo Miseroni, Milan, c. 1580 Middle - Nature is Beautiful for its Variety, Milan, c. 1550-1600 Bottom - Bust of a Black African Woman: Black Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder, Girolamo Miseroni, Milan, c. 1575–1600

Typical depictions of the Renaissance neglect the presence of African influence in Europe at the time. Europe was not empty of black residents, though they have been underrepresented in much of the literature and art about the era. People of African descend did indeed live in Europe. Some were brought as slaves, though continental Renaissance slavery was not yet the inherited life sentence it would become in the Americas. Others were foreign ambassadors and dignitaries from African kingdoms. 

The above cameos, all Milan-made, illustrate the intermingling of cultures and peoples. Some have suggested that the phrase circling the man’s profile in the center artifact, which translates to “nature is beautiful in its variety,” is an ironic inscription. But this is unlikely, as irony is not a quality associated with expensively carved and mounted gems, and the sentiment as applied to racial diversity was not an isolated one at this period. Taking a different perspective to a similar end, the essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: “For a painter in the Indies, beauty is black and sunburnt (or swarthy, basannée), with thick swollen lips and broad flat noses.” Citing further the differing standards of beauty across cultures and continents, he continued, “[but] we would fashion ugliness that way… It seems we have little knowledge of natural beauty or of beauty in general, since we humans give so many diverse forms to our own beauty; if it had been prescribed by Nature, we would all hold common views about it, just as we all agree that fire is hot.”

(All artifacts and information courtesy of the Walters Art exhibition “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe”) 

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