Continuing the celebration of the photographer’s birthday today, a selection of Carl Van Vechten’s brilliant color portraits of African American performers: Billie Holiday, Geoffrey Holder, Pearl Bailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Ella Fitzgerald, Joyce Bryant, Harry Belafonte, Ethel Waters, James Earl Jones, and Blanche Dunn.
Nina Simone
I love intensely and I loved you immensely. So how do you think I feel after you left me feeling lonely.
Free therapy for men, vent.... get that energy out.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Chapter 4: A Hymn and a Secret (1880)
— iambrillyant
B*A*P*S (1997)
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I hate how some people make crying this terrible thing
Prince photographed by Frank Griffin performing during the Lovesexy Tour at Rainbow Hall in Nagoya, Japan. February 7, 1989