“Melissa Williams,” Aja Monet reads, “Darnisha Harris.” Her voice is strong; it marches along, but it shakes a little, although not from nerves. She’s performing a poem that includes the forgotten names of girls and women who’ve been injured or killed by the police. She finishes forcefully, then pauses, exhales. “Can I do that again?” she asks. “It’s my first time reading it out loud,…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGYwf7e_cr8 Eartha Kitt on Love & Compromise (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
“People go to dance as if to exorcise the tiredness of their bodies, as if to cure themselves of daily problems.” -La Tropical (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
“Love is thee most vital and necessary tool we have for our future, for our bettering. And we must use it with as much fervor as we use our weapons, our words and our tweets, our laws and our guns, our brands and our bodies our poems and our raps, our instruments and our songs, our science and our theory the future is calling…
“Women, more often than not, speak from a position of lack, of not having received the love we long for…Taught to believe that the mind not the heart, is the seat of learning, many of us believe that to speak of love with any emotional intensity means we will be perceived as weak and irrational. And it is especially hard to speak of love…