July 2010
19 posts
“How much, where and when is determined by the competitive environment and how...”
– Bloomberg
While Many Young Adults in Poverty Have a College Degree, James Franco enrolls in four different New York colleges.
(via theessentialsofcool and soupsoup)
Your turn.
summer time.
WATER-FREAKIN-MELON
summer time.
dresses, the flowing kind. slow dances. walks...
summer time.
heat. sweat. funk. rhythm. sweat teas. rhythm.
summer time.
'All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream...
bennybing:
- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
And, women, too.
“I never knew a designer that got hundreds of thousands of dollars to design a...”
– What they don’t teach you about identity design in design schools
“She would have been eligible for the DREAM Act (should it pass) had she chosen...”
– A Young Immigrant Marks Independence Day With Goodbye
“You wouldn’t think of Craig Newmark as a technical genius, his genius is...”
– Founders of the Web
Brilliant, Mr. Winer.
“As the tournament unfolded, the story transformed. It became less about...”
– A Booming Serena Williams Keeps Title
Nude Shoes For Brown Girls →
This is giving me life!
June 2010
23 posts
List of Books - Literature
I would like to own all of Octavia E. Butler’s published writing, including the anthologies in which her writing appears.
I’m also building the same sort of thing with James Bladwin, bell hooks, C.S. Lewis and Toni Morrison.
I’d like to continue paying close attention to Tricia Rose’s critiques of culture and Zadie Smith’s work as well.
This is a snapshot of my...
“You have done a wise thing young Jedi. The rebel forces are amassing and to...”
– I just subscribed to Drawar for a month and was thanked with this piece of awesome writing. +1 Scrivs.
“I was beginning to feel like a traitor,” I said. “Guilty for saving him. Now…I don’t know what to feel. Somehow, I always seem to forgive him for what he does to me. I can’t hate him the way I should until I see him doing things to other people.” I shook my head. “I guess I can see why there are those here who think I’m more white than...
This passage is between Dana, the Black protagonist from 1976 and her Alice, her ancestor. One Black woman to another.
I shrugged again, refusing to argue with her. What could I win?
She made a wordless sound and covered her face with her hands.
“What’s the matter with you?” she said wearily. “Why you let me run you down like that? You done everything you coudl for me,...
“I said nothing. I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman - to her...”
– From Kindred
When I read this paragraph, my heart skipped a beat. This, as we say write in our social media short hand. THIS.
From "The Fight"
I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. “You want to marry me?” “Yeah, don’t you want to marry me?” He grinned. “I’d let you type all my manuscripts.” I was drying our dinner dishes just then, and I threw the dish towel at him. He really had asked me to do some typing for him three times. I’d done it the first time, grudgingly, not...
Kindred...
I’ll post a few of my favorite passages here. This tumblr auto-posts to twitter, but I can’t use twitter right now, so if you’re here from twitter, please use tumblr to respond.
I’m healing. And re-reading “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler. And an American Black woman has to make this into a movie. I can’t do it, but I’ll pay for it to get done.
for freedom, not yet gotten.
what happens when the uniforms come off and humans emerge? broken systems submerge the best of intentions underneath a waterfall of lies, generations of deceit and two mothers’ defeated hopes. justice? no, peace. peace? no. justice.
but sometimes it seems it’s just this struggle that holds us too closely. just this fear that binds us too nearly and we suffocate, choking on realities...
“I’ve always, as an adult, lived in a place where I was a transplant, and...”
– Dave Winer - My Last Trip to Calif as a Californian
Ten Rules for Being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, ‘life.’
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The ‘failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the...
From the comments:
Seeing as that a Doxology, (of which there are many – the greater “Gloria In Excelsis”, the lesser “Gloria Patri”, and the common “Doxology” that we grew up with) is truly a God focused, God lifting chorus of praise, I see that Puritan prayer consistent with many of the puritan prayers and songs which were way more lyrically fluent, graceful, and descriptive than many of the songs that have...
Nigeria Ghana South Africa
in that order. World Cup 2010 baby!
“First, that the class hierarchy as seen from the poor black woman’s...”
– POOR BLACK WOMEN by Patricia Robinson
“Passion is not about finding work bearable. It is the process by which people...”
– John Hagel: Passion and Flow (via kareem) (via misterjt)
Onwards
It seems I never learned to say “no”.
Today
In this life, we need each other. Sometimes we shout it, sometimes we’re silent. Some of us fit together perfectly. Others of us have sharp elbows and bendy knees, but we still belong together.
You. You are loved. You are broken and lonely but you are loved. He is loved. He is broken and lonely but he is loved. She is loved. She is broken and lonely but she is loved.
We belong even when...
For all my avid tumblr and tumblrettes
Which is better: to have one email address that has several tumblrs or to have several email addresses which each use one tumblr?
May 2010
7 posts
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love...”
– Assata Shakur
“It’s an interesting predicament Wale finds himself. Like many of us in...”
– My response to “My Name is Wally” on Pyoo Wata
"These words are my own...
…from my heart flow
I love you I love you I love you I love you!”
Don’t fight it. Even when you didn’t know what love was you could belt out that song and shake your head and scrunch your nose and wiggle your body.
And when you did know what it was you maybe giggled.
Los Angeles! Freedom Friday is tonight! At the Mercado La Paloma downtown. Start your weekend off by...
“My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. I’m free. I no longer...”
– -Lena Horne, 1980
Lena Horne, Sultry Singer and Actress, Dies at 92 - Biography - NYTimes.com
(via daniellescruggs)
it feels
like my heart is breaking.
but i don’t know why.
shit.
April 2010
24 posts
13 Days
Completing Phase 1: Product Development
When you’re a kid or a teenager old folks tell you to believe in yourself. Until this morning I didn’t fully understand what that meant.
I believe I can create a structure within capitalism that
sustains family, friends and lovers.
encourages created beings to create things,
subverts systems of (mis)representation by representing itself.
...