August 2010
207 posts
by any medium necessary.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is — it’s to imagine what is possible. - bell hooks
July 2010
165 posts
“The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great...”
– James Weldon Johnson
“What you feed us as seeds, grows, and blows up in your face - that’s THUG...”
– Tupac Amaru Shakur
“The flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.”
– Demetrio Bracero
#nowreading its bigger than hip hop by m.k. asante jr.
“Cuz if you let a mothaf*cka kick you five times, they gonna kick you five times....”
– Ras Baraka, former Howard University Student Association (HUSA) Vice President, leader of the second student protest.
“Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found the exact amount...”
– Frederick Douglass
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
– Audre Lorde
Oxfords and boots and beanies, oh my.
“I’m defyin’ all the laws like a caterpillar flyin’.”
– the B I G the B O I
we was once two niggas of the same kind. quick to holla at a hoochie with the same line.
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More Than A...
POWER. →
Article about the development oh Yeezy’s video for “Power.”
Bring It On
Big Red: I'm sexy, I'm cute, / I'm popular to boot.
The Toros Squad: I'm bitchin', great hair, / The boys all love to stare, / I'm wanted, I'm hot, / I'm everything you're not, / I'm pretty, I'm cool, / I dominate this school, / Who am I? Just guess, / Guys wanna touch my chest, / I'm rockin', I smile, / And many think I'm vile, / I'm flyin', I jump, / You can look but don't you hump, / Whoo / I'm major, I roar, / I swear I'm not a whore, / We cheer and we lead, / We act like we're on speed, / Hate us 'cause we're beautiful, / Well we don't like you either, / We're cheerleaders, / We are cheerleaders. /Roll call...
Big Red: Call me Big Red.
Whitney: I'm W-W-W-W-Whitney.
Courtney: C-C-C-C-Courtney.
Darcy: Dude, it's Darcy.
Carver: I'm big bad Carver. Yeah!
Kasey: Just call me Kasey!
Big Red: I'm... still Big Red, / I sizzle, I scorch, / But now I pass the torch, / The ballots are in, / And one girl has to win, / She's perky, she's fun, / And now she's number one, / K-K-Kick it Torrance, / T-T-T-Torrance!
Torrance Shipman: I'm strong and I'm loud, / I'm gonna make you proud, / I'm T-T-T-Torrance, / Your captain Torrance.
The Toros Squad: Let's go Toros. /We are the Toros, / The Mighty Mighty Toros, / We're so terrific, / We must be Toros.
Sexy Leslie and Jan Jan the Cheerleading Man.
“Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who...”
– Rick Bragg
“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and...”
– Rick Bragg
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else,...”
– Vita Sackville-West (via purple-kisses)
“becuz yo body stops its earth movements does not mean it dies.”
– Sonia Sanchez 