November 2010
64 posts
“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.”
– Anonymous (via notwritenow)
“Where’s the ladder? Cause either you goin’ whine or you goin’...”
– J. Cole
“In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it’s even just one...”
– Malcolm X
“I am not saying there shouldn’t be prisons, but there shouldn’t be...”
– Malcolm X
Wikitravel is the truth.
I’m tryin’ to tell you what I know. Tested and proven. It’s all the travel agent I need. Lord bless it.
“When he cannot find the words for how he feels, he borrows someone else’s.”
– Jodi Picoult, House Rules
“It is not enough to just survive.”
– Anna & the King
Home is Where...
You are. When going to college miles away from “home”, I realized that my definition of home began to change. It was nice to come back to the familiarity of family and North Carolina, but it was always (if not, just as) nice to get back to Philadelphia. Why? Because Philadelphia had also become home. The same can be said for Virginia Beach. Upon moving to NC, I would say that my...
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“Anything worth having you work at annually.”
– Common, much truth in that
“Baby, to tell the truth- when I’m sober I jones for you.”
– Maxwell
October 2010
133 posts
Of All Things to Learn
I have yet to comprehend why God blessed me with the ability to bow out gracefully. Lord knows I’d rather be ratchet and rude. If it’s because I’m a wordsmith with a heavy conscious, God thank you for keeping me from saying things I’d feel the need to apologize for later. Yet and still… if I could say what I want to say… (woosah!) (exhale) (wipes hands clean)...
We Haven't Left the Ship Yet
…but we’re pulling up to Singapore. I wish we were staying longer. I can already tell that 2 days just isn’t going to cut it. With that being said, I may have to raise my kids here. Socialist country or not, the laws seem heavily enforced… like having good sense isn’t optional. We could all use a little bit of that nowadays. You’ll hear a full report from me...
You know what it is when I finally make it home.
I just hope that you miss me a little when I’m gone. Word to Drake.
“Time is real. We can’t rewind it. Out of everybody I met, who told the...”
– Common
If you were worried bout' where I been or who I...
.. word to The Roots crew and Ms. Jilly from Philly. Jammin’ to the live version, it’s 3am (somewhere in the middle of the ocean), and I’m so over this school work.
“Now is your chance. Rebrand America.”
– Someone said this during a lecture we were receiving, in preparation to enter the port of some country, sometime ago. It sat with me, and I had put the thought in my phone, ready to blog about it when the time came. I didn’t want to present it out of context… being that I didn’t... 