Hell In Heels

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Mon, 20 May 2013 01:30:12 -0400

postraphaelite: Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:24:49 -0400

postraphaelite:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Santigold- Look at these hoes

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:52:59 -0400

Santigold- Look at these hoes

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The bodies of those engaged in kissing produce a substance that is 200 times more powerful than...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:30:22 -0400

The bodies of those engaged in kissing produce a substance that is 200 times more powerful than morphine in terms of narcotic effect.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 02:49:44 -0400

my heart will probably always stop for you, but I don’t like you anymore and you don’t...

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:48:39 -0400

my heart will probably always stop for you, but I don’t like you anymore and you don’t deserve me… you never did.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 15:53:28 -0400

*true shit

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:53:05 -0400

*true shit

mondaysux: girlswillbeboys: so gooOD god so so good

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:39:56 -0400

mondaysux:

girlswillbeboys:

so gooOD god

so so good

v-is: ^THIS

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:23:59 -0400

v-is:

^THIS

She comes in colors.

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:23:20 -0400

She comes in colors.

wuunderwall: A 3 day old fawn and a 3 weeks old bobcat kitten...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:11:21 -0400

wuunderwall:

A 3 day old fawn and a 3 weeks old bobcat kitten take shelter together after the santa barbara wildfire in 2009.

Isn’t this the most precious picture ever!

I don’t ever want to make milkshakes in a normal glass...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:42:40 -0400

I don’t ever want to make milkshakes in a normal glass again. That is all.

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