April 2011
148 posts
“A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he’s loud and boisterous, wants to be seen. Nobody likes a nigger. A black man has pride. He wants to build, he wants to make his race mean something. Wants to have a culture and art forms. I am a black man. Now you go ahead and print it.”
—James Brown
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Shakespearean English : Shall I compare thee to a summers day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Modern English : Baby, you summertime fine.
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Window Seat
Erykah Badu
But I need you to want me
Need you to miss me
I need your attention
I need you next me
I need someone to clap for me
I need your direction
Somebody say, come back
Come back, baby, come back
I want you to need me
Why do I always fall for your type?
Similar ways,
similar game.
Starting to feel a similar pain.
Are you sure we haven’t met before?
… familiar type,
familiar place.
Starting to feel the familiar shame…
I think we may be in a different book.
On a different page.
You said you were different,
but you’re the same… stranger.
-Jhene Aiko
The 5 Precepts of Reiki
Just for today:
- I will let go of anger.
- I will let go of worry.
- I will give thanks for my many blessings.
- I will do my work honestly.
- I will be kind to every living thing.
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ,” Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear, “… when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.”
—Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE
