#ralph brooks

[mariocki]

The Land Unknown (1957)

"We'll find the wreck without your help."

"Maybe you will, if you aren't trampled to death first, or eaten alive, or die of starvation. Wait till the Antarctic night comes and for nine months the black air hangs round you like a rotten rag, and your eyes are blinded from the dark and from your own sweat. And you lose each other, and you're alone! Alone, do you hear me? Always alone."

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have To Catch a Thief 1955

[soldsoulglenx]

Black women at The Golden Globes Awards, Los Angeles | January 7, 2024.

[nyc-looks]

Kshitij, 28

“ I’m wearing a hat from Noah, a vintage Ralph Lauren double breasted blazer, J.Press tie, vintage Brooks Brothers shirt, vintage hunting pants, and Alden tassel loafers. My style inspiration comes from what I see around me in New York and my friends who get me off my butt to dress better.”

Apr 22, 2023 ∙ East Village

[cyarsk52-20]

Happy birthday 🎁🎈🎉🎊🎂 I can’t wait for more episodes of Abbott elementary

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Beautiful Black People 👑

strongblacklead:

Some of our SBL fav's were outside serving lewks this weekend 😍

thesherylleeralph:

The Academy Museum Gala…A night that sparkled✨Makeup by @marquiswardbeauty Hair by @therealritabe Dress by @csiriano Styling by @jlynnstyle18

tarajiphenson:

#aboutlastnight at the #academygala #academymuseum 💜💜💜🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💋💋💋

kilprity:

D a n a i • G u r i r a || @danaigurira

Glam yesterday for #AcademyMuseumGala #MakeupByKilprity #ItsServed🍽️

tarajiphenson:

Black excellence…that’s it that’s the caption

tasiaworld:

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” - @oprah

📸: @sonejr

tasiaworld:

Thank You @academymuseum for an amazing evening at the #academymuseumgala2023.

tasiaworld:

A rose in the middle of the garden. 🌹 @criticschoice 📸: @sonejr

tasiaworld:

They knock me down Nine times, but I get up Ten! @elleusa Women in Hollywood 💜.

📸: @sonejr

[the-sartorial-journey]

Blue Power

[dk-thrive]

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Sometimes, you can feel as though no one wants you to think for yourself. All day, every day, through our devices, news-media diets, and social-media accounts, we are inundated with others’ opinions on all matters. Politicians, corporations, media figures, strangers, and friends tell us what to do and think. To be a good and right-thinking person, you must vote for this, believe in that, buy this, hate that…

Have you ever fantasized about somehow rejecting all of that—blocking out the noise and focusing on your own thoughts and judgments? …

The challenge is how to achieve it. Luckily for us, a famous American philosopher focused on exactly that question and left us the guide to self-reliance he wrote in 1841. Read it, and you might just find the self-determining freedom you crave…

To make all of these precepts as practical as possible, here are the eight succinct Emersonian rules for self-reliance that I try to remember. You, too, may find them helpful to monitor your behavior and conscience, and to check how self-reliant you’re managing to be.

Be a private person; never share details of your life with total strangers.

Don’t conform to any conventional wisdom; question everything.

Make independence your goal; walk alone when necessary.

Don’t take the easiest path; choose to do hard things.

Get the cultural garbage out of your life; focus only on what edifies you.

Change your mind as you see fit; make no apologies for doing so.

Commit to complete honesty; this includes honesty with yourself.

Do not count on external forces for your happiness; look within.

Living by this code is not an easy path, which is why few people really follow it. But in a messy world where the majority of people are just going along and getting along, you will find it well worth trying to do so. As if to acknowledge the difficulty and loneliness that can be involved with choosing self-reliance, Emerson concludes his essay with one more pensée to give you strength on your solitary journey: “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” Amen.

— Arthur C. Brooks, from “An Emersonian Guide to Taking Control of Your Life.” (The Atlantic, June 20, 2024)

[politicaldilfs]

Nebraska Governor DILFs

Ben Nelson, Bob Kerrey, Frank B. Morrison, Norbert Tiemann, Pete Ricketts, Arthur J. Weaver, Charles Thone, Charles W. Bryan, Dwight Griswold, J. James Exon, Robert Leroy Cochran, Dave Heineman, Dwight W. Burney, Jim Pillen, Victor Emanuel Anderson, Mike Johanns, Ralph G. Brooks, Val Peterson

[deadpresidents]

What have you been reading since the last time you posted your latest reads?

It's been a few months since I updated my latest reads, so I'm probably going to forget a few titles, but here's what I've been reading since then:

•The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Pancho Villa: A Revolutionary Life by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and translated by Todd Chretien (BOOK | KINDLE)

•The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite by Dean King (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk by William Stadiem (BOOK)

•The House Divided: Sunni, Shia, and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson (BOOK | KINDLE)

•Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Founders' Curse: James Monroe's Struggle Against Political Parties by Brook Poston (BOOK | KINDLE)

•Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don H. Doyle (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War by James B. Conroy (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling by Jon Langmead (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California by Arthur Quinn (BOOK)

•The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael Cook (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI: An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger, Third Edition by Aidan Nichols (BOOK | KINDLE)

•Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society by Joëlle Rollo-Koster (BOOK | KINDLE)

[lifeinstylesblogmode]

Old Money Style

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The old money style is the fashion style of old rich people since many génération. This style appear in 19th century in Europe in the aristocracy and royalty and later in the northern America.

This style inclueded for Women:

-Blazers, women's cut suit pants, satin shirt or wool shirt, polo, tweed co-ord, elegant turtleneck sweater, small heels, mocassins, long tight dresses/skirts, polo, black sunglasses, birkin Hermes Bags, elegant belts, satin scarf on the colar/ in hair, woolen sweaters, golden jewerly, pearl jewerly and elegant hairstyles.

and for Men:

-Basic shirt/ whool shirt, simple belts, woolen sweater, golden jewerly, polo, whool pants/short (for summer), elegant expensive watch, coton sweat, white/beige/light blue regular jeans,and mocassin for shoes or simple beige sneakers.

Now the question is " we need to be rich to adopt the old money style ?", i think the answer is yes, cause this is not just a fashion style this is also a life style and to have this style you need clothes with the best quality like the real old money, and not buy this types of clothes on a fast fashion brand with bad quality.

However it's not forbidden to adopt this fashion style without being "rich" but do not buy on fast fashion bad brand it's really not "old money".

And right now the brands where adherent of this style buy their clothes:

Ralp Lauren, Chanel, Dior (for special occasion outfits), Hermes, Burberry, Vivienne Westwood, Cartier, Prada, Gucci, Brooks brothers and J.Crew

[obsessedmeninjeans]

Jason Morgan by Matthew Brookes for POLO Ralph Lauren’s fall-winter 2019 campaign

[whenweallvote]

Our favorite way to spend a Saturday night? Celebrating Black Excellence 🤩

Sending congratulations to all of the nominees and winners of the 55th annual NAACP Image Awards!

[classicliteratureprincess]

Recent writers I been introduced to -

Theodore Roethke

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Hayden

Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Lowell

W. D. Snodgrass

Eudora Welty

Sylvia Plath

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Lorraine Hansberry

Ralph Ellison

Amiri Baraka

[beas-mind]

More looks from the 55th NAACP Image Awards🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾