February 2012
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Be(ing) Grateful: Day 39
I think someone, Fashionista Zapatista probably, tumbl’ed Little Brother’s “Slow It Down” and that’s where I’ve been. Tomorrow promises much but less than I had envisioned and today was mucho pared down and I’m grateful for that.
Carmen at my nail/waxing spot said she liked my hair out. It reminded her of her part Puerto Rican grandson’s wild curls....
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WatchMmm hmm
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‘The Help’ Audition Tape
A struggling actress’ leaked audition tape for the Oscar-nominated film The Help.
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Be(ing) Grateful: Day 38
I woke wonderfully. I tensed up in hesitation. I did me. It didn’t produce what I imagined. I hustled and fussed. I tripped over my words. I busied. I body poemed. I taught. I learned. I apologized. I returned a phone call. I got called out for not replying to a text. I thought about my body harshly. I showered. I had 2 glasses of wine. I lay in bed and I feel something like purpose. Give...
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of...”
– Judy Garland (via ninagarcia)
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Feminist Care Packages: A Feminist Care Package... →
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Dear Too $hort, We are a collective of people of color who are angered and saddened by your comments in a video for XXL magazine. We are angry because no one at the magazine thought to pull the plug on the interview and we are sad because you seem unaware that you were advocating the…
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My organization, The Black Girl Project, is having... →
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Be(ing) Grateful: Day 37
I played “God is An American” on There Ought To Be More Dancing. I hear it in this life and the next. And today I read more of Lighthead on the train from Lenten services to Nordstrom Rack. Of course, the poems therein are framed by one that starts like this:
Ladies and gentlemen, ghosts and children of the state
I am here because I could never get the hang of Time.
from...
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Be(ing) Grateful: Day 36
Dr. John graveled, “I been in the right place but it must have been the wrong time.” He’s ringing in my ears ‘cause its Mardi Gras. The plum flatness of the moment doesn’t escape me. The juicy incoherence dribbles down my cheek.
I’d like to know the time like HE knows the time.
Speaking aloud today with a salt-n-pepper ‘froed intellectual, I said I...
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“If the drumbeat changes, the dance must also change.”
– Hausa Proverb (via superkwa)
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“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is...”
– Zora Neale Hurston (or Mama Zo as I call her)
Dust Tracks on a Road
(via thistr3reads)
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“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss,...”
– Malcolm X (via tionam)
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Be(ing) Grateful: Day 35
Grateful for grace. Boundaries too.