June 2011
80 posts
“Gil, a student of radical history and politics, knew that if you were charged...”
– Greg Tate on Gil Scott Heron. For the win.
Danielle Scruggs: KARA WALKER →
tobia:
Dust Jackets for the Niggerati-and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker
@ SIKKEMA JENKINS & Co.
The day before I left New York, I had the pleasure of viewing Kara Walker’s one woman show at Sikkema Jenkins with my parents. An incredibly…
I just adore her…
May 2011
106 posts
Ruby Dee on first acting with Ossie Davis
In the first place, he was tall and gaunt, with a pronounced and very active Adam’s apple when he spoke. Second, his clothes seemed decidedly to belong to someone else…a tall skinny man dressed in the aparrelof a short, fat man. Perhaps he had shopped at the Salvation Army stores, Goodwill, it rubbish bins- with his eyes shut, we concluded gleefully.
(I hope I haven’t missed...
“I’m looking for a big, fat sexy momma. I’m a little man but I like to eat.”
– Prince 3.26.11
;-)
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
– Charles Bukowski (via dreamhampton1)
Nikki Rosa on love...
Love: Is a Human Condition (excerpt)
An amoeba is lucky it’s so small …else its narcissism would lead to war …
since self-love seems so frequently to lead to self-righteousness …
The night loves the stars as they play about the Darkness …
the day loves the light caressing the sun …We love …
those who do …because we live in a world requiring...
Watchnationalgeographicmagazine:
The First Grader: The Story
In a small, remote, mountaintop primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge (Oliver Litondo), an old Mau Mau veteran in his 80s, who is desperate to...
dream. here. wow. →
“Have you ever fallen for a thief?” dream hampton’s review of Lauryn’s Miseducation is also an essay on moving forward after heartbreak. Forever grateful.
“And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous...”
– Chang-rae Lee (via anemptyspace)
“Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone...”
– Hafiz (via pakkageek)
Ase…
“This crying, it’s not your eyes’ fault;
your hands didn’t...”
– Pablo Neruda
Octavia Butler on flying
I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself. No one is teaching me. I’m just learning on my own, little by little, dream lesson by dream lesson. Not a very subtle image, but a persistent one. I’ve had many lessons, and I’m better at flying than I used to be. I trust my ability more now, but I’m still afraid. I can’t quite control my directions yet. - Parable of the...
“Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative.”
– Paulo Friere
#friereisms :)
“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer...”
– Saul Bellow (via myfirstfeaturefilm)
——
Great advice for visual artists as well.
“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...”
– the homie, poe.
Sometimes I am afraid of my heart…
“Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.”
– Octavia Butler (via daniellescruggs)
Drowning people…
Never Offer Your Heart To Someone Who Eats Hearts
Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.
Never offer your heart
to a heart gravy lover.
Your stewed, overseasoned
heart consumed
he will sop up your grief
with bread
and send it shuttling
from side to side
in his mouth
like bubblegum.
If...
“But it is impossible not to recognize that the people who are endlessly boasting...”
– James Baldwin from “A Letter to Prisoners”
“And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language...”
– Audre Lorde from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
Akiba Solomon on Psychology Today, Shoddy... →
Critical Caribbean Feminist Commentary →
redforgender:
Just in case you missed it! We’ve got some of the best Caribbean feminist blogging online all in one place!
Jamaica to make fathers’ names on birth certificates mandatory.
Guyana launches Men’s Affairs Bureau.
Barbados looks at paternity testing during Child Month.
CodeRed tackles the imperialism and racism of the American Gay Rights lobby.
Exposing Class and Economic...
“Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy...”
– (via ilijean)
On jealousy.
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and...”
– Malcolm X (via girlinboyclothes)
Malcolm
