February 2012
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"You can handle whatever life gives you. You did...
Posted by my father on Facebook. This is why I am who I am.
what would happen if black history month...
What does it mean that we have black history month? What would it mean if Black History Month were no more? Would black history itself disappear or would it pave the way for a fervent new mission to ensure the inclusion of black history in education and society in all months?
On Thursday February 16, at Kumble Theatre for Performing Arts at LIU, The YWCA of Brooklyn and LIU Brooklyn will...
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"I am an African-American first then a woman. The...
-me, tonya RAPley
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Reaction to @nelsongeorge Brooklyn Boheme
Last night I attended a screening of Nelson George’s documentary Brooklyn Boheme. I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary but as I listened to audience members comment, question, and speak about the change that gentrification and corporations have brought to Ft.Green I felt a widespread sentiment of love lost. As if Barclays Arena and structures similar in ideology had robbed the area of what...
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Why I decided to go natural
My natural hair journey began in the Fall of 2009. My relationships with relaxers wasn’t a bad one. I wasn’t traumatized. In all honesty, my mother didn’t allow me to relax until about 9th grade and it wasn’t important to me up until that point. My 9th grade attitude shift occurred when I went from attending all white schools to schools with a large black population. Let me...
January 2012
23 posts
“When you say to a person of color “When I see you, I don’t see you as black! I...”
– Jane Elliot, on the absurdity and invalidation of claims of “Color Blindness” by white folk (via solitaryforager
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Shihan's "This type of Love"
Inspired by my last post and my very significant other.
I want a love like Me thinking of you Thinking of me thinking of you type love Or me telling my friends more than I’ve ever admitted to myself About how I feel about you type love Or hating how jealous you are But loving how much you want me all to yourself type love Or see how your first name just sound so good next to my last name And shit...
apostate: noun.A person who forsakes his religion,...
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Has Christianity Become a "Get Out of Jail Free... →
Sometimes God doesn't change your situation...
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"I mean that, you're bright,you speak eloquently,...
Told to me by a friend today. Thank you.
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December 2011
30 posts
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
– Melchizedek, in The Alchemist (via theangelontherun
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“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
– Paulo Coelho, (The Alchemist)
4 YEARS ago on this day
I moved to NYC. With only $800, dreams, optimism, and my suitcases. I don’t regret that decision one bit. I came alive in NYC. I found other parts of me in NYC. I learned to believe in the beauty of my dreams no matter how much they may change.
Thank you NYC, the wonderful people I have encountered while living here, and most of all, thank you God, for holding me. Not one night have I...
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"Political power, properly so called, is merely...
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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“I think people are into themselves more today than they used to be. There’s no...”
– Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men)
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