August 2010
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My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women & Hip-Hop... →
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“Dorothy: I hate this. I absolutely hate this! I have never been good at firing...”
– Golden Girls: Season 7 “Beauty & The Beast”
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Culture Shock
*at the grocery store with my friend*
Me: I continue to be suspicious of this leafy, green vegetable i enjoy so much. It doesn't look like any "spinach" I'm used to seeing.
Her: That's because it's fresh.
Me: SHUT UP, HATER! WE EAT FRESH PRODUCE IN AMERICA!! AND IT LOVES FREEDOM AND JESUS CHRIST!!!
Her: *laughing* Okay, calm down.
Me: I can't. Everything here is just a little bit weird and therefore wrong. *pouts while putting spinach in cart* I want to go home.
Her: LOLOLOLOLOL!
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“Toussaint’s failure was the failure of Enlightenment, not of darkness.”
– C.L.R. James, in The Black Jacobins
And while I have you here a moment: NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE HAVE READ THIS BOOK.
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Kids these days...
Sometime on or about July 27th, 1881, Dr. José Llamosa recieved (I’m sure) a very troubling and what looks to be a sincerely heart-felt letter form the Vice-rector of Caracas’ Escuela Espiscopal about his son, Anacleto. In it Padre Jesús María Crespo communicates his growing concern for the 16-year-old’s immortal soul citing “past and continued lapses in conscience,...
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Homesick.
The tree by the T station by the freeway by my house. Taken earlier this Spring.
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You Are Not Permitted To Blame It On The...
1. Sunshine
2. Moonlight
3. Good times
You are, however, allowed to blame it on ‘the boogie’.
Best of Luck & Lots of Love,
MJ
(I’m paraphrasing, of course.)
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“All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest,...”
– Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, civil rights leader, publisher, and co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women in an address given before the 1st meeting ot the National Conference of Colored Women; Charles Street A.M.E. Church, Boston, MA- July 29th, 1895.
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“I am convinced that black feminism is, on every level, organic to black...”
– Barbara Smith in Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person, making you wish your day would begin with a “previously on” recap of your life’s various plot arcs, and end with “to be continued…” after those will-they-won’t-they cliffhanger episodes that air just before the show goes back into months of repeats.
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