February 2012
8 posts
2 tags
Mornin’ ya’ll.
Asa - Be My Man
Chalked in a riddle,
we divine.
Take away the answers,
ease your mind.
Separate and together,
your hand in mine.
(photo via ubuntu: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afrotonomy/)
Divine Women
When women get bogged down in their search for freedom, for liberation, there seem to be many themes: the absence of a God of their own and inadequate management of the symbolic. The two things are linked and necessary to the constitution of an identity and a community. Many women have made or are making great efforts to fall back under the thrall of the phallocratic and patriarchal monopoly on...
12,000 words later...
“Perhaps, then, as women, we should strive to achieve both personhood and womanhood – to attempt to avoid gender stratification while continuing to question the role ‘God’ plays on our concept of self; to continue a moral striving for, to continue to question the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
And cut. But really, I’m just tryna pass mane…
3 tags
January 2012
76 posts
“You’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time where...”
– Malcolm X
Right now I'm feeling angry...
When I get filled up with any emotion I have to sit down and make myself write. Anger, sadness, monumental happiness, excitement, whatever the emotion – I need to write it down. It needs to be tangible. It needs to go somewhere outside of me before it overtakes me completely.
Someone once told me I feel too much; others call it an “artistic temperament” or “she’s just extra...
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall...”
“A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our...”
– Gabrielle Bernstein
“love has nothing to do with logic.”
– Ferrari Sheppard (via ferrarisheppard)
The Awakening
Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. She began to look with her own eyes; to see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life. No longer was she content to “feed upon opinion” when her own soul had invited her.
My mind is chock-full of E.E. Cummings today..
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
Common - I Want You
I have 60 pages to write in 2 weeks. This is...
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and...”
– Mary Oliver
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
i don’t believe in time travel i don’t believe our nation’s flag is on the moon i don’t believe our lives are simple and i don’t believe they’re short this is interlude i don’t believe my hands are cleanly can’t believe that you would let me touch your heart
1 tag
2 tags
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone’s hearts would start to beat at...
3 tags
3 tags
"A true revolution of values will soon look...
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make...
2 tags
American Pastoral
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open...
2 tags
2 tags
Frank Ocean - Miss You So
3 tags
Now I'm gonna stop channeling Deepak Chopra and go...
Life Truth #3
Forgiveness