January 2013
1 post
December 2012
1 post
Grachan Moncur III on meeting Miles Davis
atane:
“I used to go to Birdland and sit in on Monday nights. One night Miles came in. I went up to introduce myself and told him how much I admired him. He looked at me and said, ‘Don’t you ever say that corny shit to nobody! I know who you are, man. You got something. Dig yourself!‘”
via - London Jazz Collector
November 2012
3 posts
“What is happening (in Gaza) feels very familiar, I tell them. When something...”
– Alice Walker, in her short narrative book Overcoming Speechlessness ( a short, insightful and heart wrenching read that gives a human perspective to the battles between Israel and Palestine)
October 2012
3 posts
September 2012
1 post
August 2012
5 posts
“Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via v-intagekiss)
“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become...”
– Baldwin’s speech, ” A Talk to Teachers” http://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm (via jonubian)
July 2012
4 posts
“My Grandma didn’t graduate from college. She isn’t into philosophy...”
– My boy Mavrek, on his granny.
“A man chooses a great woman as part of a Spiritual journey to bump up to a...”
– (via bafama)
May 2012
3 posts
April 2012
4 posts
Richard Wright, “I Choose Exile”
I am a native born American Negro. The first 38 years of my life were spent exclusively on the soil of my native land. But, at the moment of this writing, I live in voluntary exile in France and I like it. There is nothing in the life of America that I miss or yearn for. Barring war or catastrophe, I intend to remain in exile. I shall, of course,...
February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
11 posts
“Love isn’t safe. And whoever you love will hurt you. It’s part of the human...”
– Kristin Billerbeck (A Billion Reasons Why)
Today, I’m grateful for her. Because she holds the mirror up to my face. Because she sees in me what I can’t. Because she had the foresight, even from thousands of miles away. Because she came back. Because when we’ve been aimed at, when we’ve been the targets, she stood right beside…stood tall. Because she let me in. Because, what I was fighting against, she had long...
“I don’t like men who are loud. When a man is loud, somehow it means there...”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
December 2011
3 posts
The Enduring Legacy of Basquiat's Hair
thenewinquiry:
The painter’s generative conflict (and coif) lives on
By Itoro Udoko
Jean-Michel Basquiat had a professional career that lasted just nine years, but in that time he managed to make himself one of the most significant painters of the 20th century and an enduring cultural icon. Basquiat was a bundle of contradictions; he made art from the streets, yet his work appeared in...
November 2011
1 post
RUBY
“Ruby represents the sun which is the heart of our universe, and as well as of the human persona. This gem stone is a symbol of excellent health, vigor, love and passion. Wearing it renders a bold and courageous persona to the person. Ruby also does away with depression and enhances popularity and prestige…”
September 2011
4 posts
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