Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don’t want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly. What I write is important, and I insist that you feel…
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"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHBfhiOeHKI The Beauty Within by Dead Prez shout out to @m1deadprez “i see you” ▲❍▼❏ (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Summer 1989 THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF POWER, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the…
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artismyhustle: “I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim” —Frida Kahlo
Some Dark Room Collective, 1992, photo by Marcus Alonso (my professor from undergrad at Sarah Lawrence is to the left corner, Thomas Sayers Ellis. His latest book of poems Skin Inc. is available now! go get it!)