May 2012
94 posts
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This song makes me want to dance outside.
heyitsbrandon asked: Ha ha oh its ok man. When will you or Strivers Row be coming to Baltimore, MD?
microphoneabuser asked: How do I go about improving my vocabulary? My insight? My intellect? What steps are necessary?
behindenemyeyes asked: What inspires you to write? I want to know if it gives you any sort of passion similar to mine, sometimes when I do get the chance to write I am as a fragile as a newborn baby and at other times I am stronger than Goliath.
thismorningintheuniverse asked: Hey! First, I’d like to express my gratitude to you for work. It is such grace - all of the learning, and such. I really appreciate you extending those pieces of yourself to us. It’s cool. I love it a lot.1. Have you considered doing lectures on the implications of language in The Bible as they relate to art and social justice? Or just The Bible in general? I like watching your work,...
lifegivesyoumelons asked: Mangoes?? Why mangoes? :P
dontecollinsthepoet asked: If you were a poem, what would your title be?
thismorningintheuniverse asked: How did you go about beginning your probing into the animal/human divide? Have you read Rob Bell’s Love Wins and/or Tim LaHaye’s Jesus: Who Is He? Who is your favorite philosopher to read?
2twentyone1 asked: your words are incredible man. you're "a genius with jellyfish for words". any chance you ever come to montreal?
jalwhite:
notime4yourshit:
For those that need to be caught up:
Ramarley Graham: Site. Petition.
Rekia Boyd: Site. Petition. Facebook.
Trayvon Martin: Facebook.
Eric Perez: Site.
Neng Yang: Petition. Facebook.
Shaima Alawadi: Petition. Facebook.
Vern Traversie: Petition. Facebook.
Naomi Whitecrow: Petition. Facebook.
CeCe McDonald: Site. Petition. Facebook. Tumblr.
Agnes Torres:...
Watchitsdestineeactually:
frankocean:
just at home fuckin around, no judging.
Isn’t he wonderful
ffiredancerr41 asked: What words do you live by ?
muzicismyart asked: In your opinion, what is the diffrence of spoken word and rap. And I love your popen, 10 words i say to every black woman. It was great.
microphoneabuser asked: As an upcoming poet what advice would you give me on staying confident in my craft and what should I do/read in order to become better at my craft?
shenailoriginal asked: A burning question within me, how did you come up with Square Dancing with Giants?
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This song breaks my heart….in a good way. Is...
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak
Random musing #1
Tumblr seems like the ideal place to meet a soul mate. Though I can only know the most wondrous, interesting parts of the folks I have met on here, for what it’s worth, it seems like they experience the world around them the way I have always thought it was meant to be experienced: in awe. The very nature of the medium calls out to those who are enraptured by beauty, people who can’t...
Watchdreamhampton1:
Beyonce being the B her friends know and love
“The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. The...”
– Jacques Derrida
Excerpt from "Each One, Pull One" by Alice Walker.
Look, I, temporarily on the rim of the grave, have grasped my mother’s hand my father’s leg. There is the hand of Robeson Langston’s thigh Zora’s arm and hair your grandfather’s lifted chin the lynched woman’s elbow what you’ve tried to forget of your grandmother’s frown. Each one, pull one back into the sun We who have stood over so many graves know...
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers (via starsgoboom)
The joytrip.
So, I’m not sure exactly what happened. But, from what I can recall (this all happened two hours ago, and I know I probably should have written this then, but I was hungry and got caught up in the Knicks game so I sat and socialized and ate mashed potatoes before coming here to work on my paper about haunting) it was something akin to what I would like to call a “joytrip”. The...
