simplyann
word to your ma.
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 experiments that ultimately ‘work.’
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
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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 come since. I would look up the WIKI on “Doxology” and read about them, very illuminating, and is a calling to ALL modern songwriters to focus more on God, His grace, His glory, Who He is … and who we are not!
If you look at the lyrics of that Puritan Prayer:
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Read the rest at Disturbing Doxology
First, that the class hierarchy as seen from the poor black woman’s position is one of white male in power, followed by the white female, and then the black male and lastly the black female.
Historically, the myth in the black world is that there are only two free people in the United States, the white man and the black woman. The myth was established by the black man in the long period of his frustration when he longed to be free to have the material and social advantages of his oppressor, the white man. On examination of the myth, this so-called freedom was based on the sexual prerogatives taken by the white man on the black female. It was fantasized by the black man that she enjoyed it.
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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 we are scattered across space. We are always on the same time even when we are years apart. We were brought together, broken together, and we will be together whether we like it or not.
I can love. I cannot heal the broken and lonely but I can love.
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Ha! This pretty much sums up everything that’s wrong with the Illuminati conspiracy theories.
All white men. Even the demons are white. What the front door?
A story of impending human calamity is incomplete without every human’s story.
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?
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I cannot get over how beautiful, wonderful and interesting the female form is.
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It is our duty to win.
We must love and protect each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
It’s an interesting predicament Wale finds himself. Like many of us in Diaspora, we are distinctly Nigerian in Western society and institutions and especially Western in Nigerian situations. We’re allowed no in between in which to define ourselves.
That’s why I like Wale. He gets it how he lives and that’s Nigerian when he wants to be and American when he feels it should be.
Perhaps if you removed the expectation that Wale would be “Nigerian” you would not have been dissappointed. I don’t know. As it were, I find his music relevant at moments when I want to be Nigerian and American and hip hop all at the same time.
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