February 2011
34 posts
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.”
—Malcolm X
When you’re dreaming Anthony Hamilton is singing Donny Hathaway’s ‘Someday We’ll All Be Free’, there’s no reason to wake up
SEX →
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It worries and scares me the way people are terrified about talking about sex. It worries and scares me the way people are scared, (especially women), of enjoying it. It scares and worries me the way people shame others for enjoying, having, or talking about sex. It scares and worries me that in…
“This is a human rights issue. Just as I was very proud to say the obvious more than fifteen years ago in Beijing — that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights — well, let me say today that human rights are gay rights, and gay rights are human rights, once and for all.”
—Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, ad-libbing at a State Department event celebrating gay employees. When asked why she’d gone off script, she said, “Oh, heavens, I don’t know — I don’t know… I was looking out at the audience where a lot of longtime friends, political supporters, colleagues were sitting, and it just seemed so important and right to make that statement.” (via bibliofeminista)
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Say it loud, I’m nappy and proud!”
—Well not always cause sometimes I just don’t know what to do with my hair
Intervention on A&E is the realest show on television, this chick just shot heroin into her neck/carotid artery
“Meet people in such a manner that if you die, they should weep for you, and if you live they should long for you.”
—Imam Ali (A.S)
“And the servants of the Almighty are those who walk on the Earth in humility and if the ignorant speak to them, they Say: “Peace.”
—Qu’ran 25:63 (via afghanipoppy)
“When I’m sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free” —Jimi Hendrix - ‘Little Wing’
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free” —Jimi Hendrix - ‘Little Wing’
I need some good new blogs to follow. Suggestions?
My Letter to Hip Hop
My letter to hip-hop.
Dear, hip-hop.. I’m writing inform you i’m going to have to end our relationship, I know in the beginning I was down to work them hips, but i was tricked. Seduced by your beat, see you had me for three minutes and fourty-six seconds I was suspended in time, but when I snapped out of it I had to ask “did I hear what I though I did in that last rhyme?” Now forgive me, maybe I’m getting old or maybe I’m just slow cause I didn’t know you could say “bitch” on the raido. But I was entranced by that beat I’ve heard somewhere before. Oh, I remember that was the original score. Now unless I’m dreaming I could have swore, right after you called me a “bitch” you called someone else a whore, and at this point I’m trying to process a few things.. What were the original words to that song and you want me to do what with my thong? And I’m trippin’ cause nobody is acting like anything is wrong. After all the anthem for the new millennium was “big pimpin”. And it all seems a bit surreal, cuz when I was dancing around I didn’t know the damage my soul was going to feel. And there are times I’m still compelled to move, but I swear to you it’s that old school groove that plays above the lyrics, beacuse if the music wasn’t there I definitely wouldn’t hear it! I thought Hip Hop was supposed to be a means of poetically expressing yourself but it seems these days you’d say anything to get your C.Ds off the shelf. So let’s toast with champagne and good blunts for your health, but first…tell me why?“Every other video, brotha’s gotta be a gigolo” and you show your respect by pouring beer for the homie who’s dead. Then pour the rest of the forty over some females head, and what’s crazier than that she doesn’t seem to mind, but if you look past her ass deep into her eyes you might find, a hint of surprise, cause she didn’t realize, the camera shot would be between her thighs, and she furthers the lie, as she tries to deny, pretending like its okay. As she just gave a piece of her self-esteem away, and it aired nine times on MTV today, and all of that for little to know pay, but “He’s a hustler baby and he told you so, and when he’s through you’re a video ho.” And I’m trying to make it in this business so I’ve stood in those high heel shoes you know? Now, when I go to the club I see a sea of young women with fake diamonds bouncing around their waist with too little clothes on her body and too much make-up on her face singing, “Ándele Ándele mami E.I. E.I. uh oh.” Were you that ho? Was I that ho? Or do we all need to spiritually grow? Does anyone know what E.I E.I. stands for anyway?
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Unsure of what the balance held
I touched my belly overwhelmed
By what I had been chosen to perform
But then an angel came one day
Told me to kneel down and pray
For unto me a man child would be born
Woe this crazy circumstance
I knew his life deserved a chance
But everybody told me to be smart
Look at your career they said,
“Lauryn, baby use your head”
But instead I chose to use my heart
Now the joy of my world is in Zion
Now the joy of my world is in Zion
And now Zion is quite a handsome young man. She brought 3 of her kids out on stage during her concert last week
