January 2012
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The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the “Negro’s” reality, negates...
– Dr. Sonia Sanchez (September 9, 1934- )
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Sooner Than Later.
I need to paint.
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She’s the best thing I’ve ever been a part of.
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Blowing Glass or Grass or... →
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Live Immortal.
Only those of us who feel it truly and permanently in the depths of our souls can comprehend this. Physical life is ephemeral, it passes inexorably… . This truth should be taught to every human being – that the immortal values of the spirit are above physical life. What sense does life have without these values? What then is it to live? Those who understand this and generously sacrifice...
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If We Must Die.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us...
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Rooftops On Riverdrops. →
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Alarm.
Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America (Live).
Miles Davis - Archie Moore.
James Brown - Forever Suffering.
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Slave Driver.
The Roots - Wicked Ways.
Curtis Mayfield - Love To The People.
Fela Kuti - Shuffering & Shmiling.
Black Star - Thieves In The Night.
The O’Jays - Don’t Call Me Brother.
Mos Def - Sun, Moon, Stars.
Funkadelic - Biological...
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America Eats Its Young.
A luscious bitch she is, true But it’s not nice to fool mother nature The proud mother of god like all hoes Is jealous of her own shadow So who is this young Vic Tanny bitch Who wish to be queen for a day? Who would sacrifice the great grandsons and daughters Of her jealous mother By sucking their brain Until their ability to think was amputated By pimping their instincts Until they were...
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Love.
What made him unfamiliar and dangerous was not his hatred for white people but his love for blacks, his apprehension of the horror of the black condition, and the reasons for it, and his determination so to work on their hearts and minds that they would be enabled to see their condition and change it themselves.
James Baldwin on Malcolm X.
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In Time.
It felt so good
I told the leader how to follow.
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New Books.
Chinua Achebe, Home & Exile.
Ernest J. Gaines, Mozart & Ledbelly: Stories & Essays.
William Rhoden, 40 Million Dollar Slaves.
Robert Ebert Byrnes & Jamie Marquart, Brush With The Law.
Tavis Smiley, What I Know For Sure.