January 2011
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"It doesnt matter how far you have come, you've...
Leonardo Da Vinci
But the fires of Jealousy burn away our own mental peace.
-Sun Tzu
Dom Kennedy “It was Beautiful”
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From Martin Luther Kings Letter from Birmingham...
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with...
Lift every voice and sing,
till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is...”
– Rumi (via ksyed)
I am naming my daughter Rumi when I have one. and my son will be named Khalil (Gibran). Two Girls? Rumi and Troy.
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Finally spoke to my little sister after a week of...
That made my heart sing tonight :)
You were born with potential You were born with goodness and trust You were born with ideals and dreams You were born with greatness You were born with wings You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings Learn to use them, and fly.
~ Rumi
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
– Rumi (via quote-book)
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The government's your pusher
A recent C.D.C report published by the NY Times this morning stated:
Overdoses of prescription drugs now kill more Americans than overdoses of illegal drugs, the opposite of the pattern 20 years ago. Overdose death rates are now higher among whites than blacks; that trend switched in 2002, after doctors began prescribing more powerful painkillers, antidepressants and antipsychotics — more easily...
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Hello Brooklyn
There’s a different air in Brooklyn thats apparent as soon as I step off the A-Train to Nostrand Avenue. “Salaams” possess the same verbal exchange rate as “Wass Good?” My love affair with New York began with Brooklyn. Although I spent my childhood summers in my fathers former neighborhood of Springfield Gardens, Queens. It was East New York, Brooklyn that welcomed me in December 2008 when I moved...
So let me get this right? Im a Taurus now?
GTFOH.
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The executive director of my job
made a big deal about our dress code a few months back. Which allows for “colored jeans” but not blue jeans. So. It has taken a few months but I have figured out how to wear jeans everyday to work ( one of my life goals) . Establish my own uniform and wear black jeans to work. Every day.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the...
Mark Twain
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