February 2012
28 posts
“Recognize that pain and bad decisions are a part of life, and that those...”
– NPR Music Critic, Ann Powers, on Rihanna & Chris Brown. First time she’s said something I completely agree with. Read.
“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the...”
– -Malcom X
R.I.P.
(via siemprevivalavida)
Preach!!!
melodywithinn asked: I really should have been doing my online school work at the Library right now during my break at school but I happened to stumble upon your blog and I didn't realize but I happened to spend the last two hours just reading your posts. Your really an insightful and smart person. I feel like I learnt more from reading through your entries than I would have if I had actually read my school...
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Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
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“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to...”
– — Lauryn Hill (via rudolove)
Anonymous asked: I think you can go fuck yourself.
Anonymous asked: I see that you posted a picture of two characters from the show Misfits, do you watch it?
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The CUTEST girl on campus is in one of my classes… #justsayin
Autobiography
I’ve had to write 4 bios recently, all in third person. And it’s kind of a weird feeling.
1 for a singing competition on campus in March; another for a performance with my band at one of UCLA’s museums; another for a regional conference for black students that I’m MC’ing and teaching a workshop at; another for a spoken word competition I was in last week. It’s...
Anonymous asked: You definitely should have been a sociology major.
supernerd23 asked: Your blog title is intriguing. How many siblings do you have? I know all about Middle Child Syndrome, what with my 8 brothers and sisters...
Anonymous asked: So when you had the mini concert with Alto at your house, the last song you did was freaking epic. Any chance you would record and post so I could listen to it on my way to class? Also, what's the music writing process like for you?
Anonymous asked: Great job at the Oratorical Contest last week. I really enjoyed your message.
howtobeterrell asked: WHo the fuck are you and why has it taken me so long to follow u! love your blog
January 2012
10 posts
SBTRKT - Hold On
On repeat right now.
~ AFL ~: I'm going to tell you why I call you a... →
angryfuckingliberal:
Sometimes some white people say some fucked up shit and get the obvious response one might expect. But instead of listening, they would rather yell, get over it! Or scoff at the “ignorance” inherent in their critics. They get really, really mad if I call them a white supremacist, but let me tell…
So… well… put.
The End.
“Martin Luther King once said, ‘I have a dream’, and in the spirit of this great...”
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-Every white person on Tumblr right now (via stfuconfederates)
I DIED!!!! Hahahahaa
My Night With Leslie Feist
This post is long and overdue. I had quite a few music-related victories last year that I didn’t blog about. So before I talk about the most recent one, an unreal experience I had with Feist in Novemeber, I’ll do a quick rundown.
This summer while in London, I met James Blake’s drummer at a barbecue. At this party, they stuck a can of beer up a chicken’s hole and placed...
“Death is as real as life.”
– Leslie Feist
“Sanity is a social construct.”
– Me
December 2011
9 posts
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Q & A
I just received this in my inbox from an anonymous reader and decided to answer here.
Q: “I don’t always get a chance to be on tumblr but each time I do stumble on something from your blog, it has something to do with race, racism or being black. I know that this could be merely coincidence and I could be more certain if I scrolled through your entire blog but I guess I’ll just...
Anonymous asked: Connor.
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Freedom of speech.
How can you enjoy freedom of speech if there is no audience to hear your voice? How can your voice be heard if you don’t have a platform to stand on, a platform to speak from, or a microphone to augment your voice? How is it still freedom of speech when there is no one to hear it? Does your speech, the oral circulation of your ideas and beliefs, matter if your voice is never heard?
If you...
All Their Stanzas Look Alike
BY THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS
All their fences
All their prisons
All their exercises
All their agendas
All their stanzas look alike
All their metaphors
All their bookstores
All their plantations
All their assassinations
All their stanzas look alike
All their rejection letters
All their letters to the editor
All their arts and...
“Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book....”
– Ray Bradbury
(in response to the question: What do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)
November 2011
10 posts
What is it with Ghetto Names
I get it now.
All my life, I grew up being told that “black” names are ghetto and held by people who are likely to be trashy. If you know a girl named Laquisha, Latoya, Shaniqua, or Kelendria, she’s probably the neighborhood hoodrat, and even names like Tyrone and Tyrese are blacklisted in our society (pun intended). Statistically, it’s been proven that resumes and job applications that bear...