By native on August 4, 2008
How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
Bob Dylan
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By native on July 25, 2008
Ok today I have multiple quotes because they were all amazing to me….. Blessed are the poets of the Harlem Renaissance for their intelligence sharpens me everyday!
“For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain [...]
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By native on June 23, 2008
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. – George Carlin
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By native on June 12, 2008
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. -Soren Kierkegaard
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By native on June 6, 2008
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people’s hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man. – Paul Robeson
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By native on June 5, 2008
These quotes represent my best friend and brother; he’ll see the connection. LOL!
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’ t stand for the white man’s side.I stand for God’s side.
Life is [...]
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By native on May 25, 2008
Congratulations to Logan and Ryan Dawson; two young brothers who have graduated high school, escaped the trappings of the stereotypes of young black males, all the while earning a record number amount of scholarships from America’s top Universities.
And the young men give all of the credit to their mother, their original Queen who instilled a [...]
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By native on May 20, 2008
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. – Johnnie Cochran
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By native on April 15, 2008
WORDS
written by the lovely Ma’at
Words mean nothing
everything
Confined by the speaker
Writer
Audience
Perception
In Spoken form
Words Cause your ears to Bleed
They call you a Nigger
Bitch
Boy
They deleted your past from your present through Spoken Word
Taught you to love his Word and forget your own
They took your language so you lost your power
Power to speak
Power to communicate
Power to grow as [...]
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By native on April 2, 2008
My “Fascination” with Greeks (Response)
Earlier today I was introduced to an article written in Blacklisted Magazine (http://www.blacklistedmagazine.org) discussing one woman’s opinions on Black Greek Lettered Organizations at the University of Florida. She later responded to my posting of her article with this comment, “Please keep in mind that the critique in this article, is specific [...]
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