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"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."
- "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" by Zora Neale Hurston
- "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" by Zora Neale Hurston
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."
- "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" by Zora Neale Hurston
- "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" by Zora Neale Hurston
"There are roads out of the secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others."
- Romare Bearden
- Romare Bearden
April 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"There are roads out of the secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others."
- Romare Bearden
- Romare Bearden
“The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”
- Toni Morrison
- Toni Morrison
April 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”
- Toni Morrison
- Toni Morrison
"Believe people when they tell you who they are."
- "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" by Maya Angelou
- "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" by Maya Angelou
April 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Believe people when they tell you who they are."
- "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" by Maya Angelou
- "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" by Maya Angelou
Stuck at the airport or the DMV and you need something to read. it's 2 books for a limited time
April 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Stuck at the airport or the DMV and you need something to read. it's 2 books for a limited time
“In the end, the power of love, of loving someone and of being loved, equips us to endure the world as it is and to imagine the world as it could be.”
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- "Nothing Personal" by James Baldwin
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- "Nothing Personal" by James Baldwin
April 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“In the end, the power of love, of loving someone and of being loved, equips us to endure the world as it is and to imagine the world as it could be.”
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- "Nothing Personal" by James Baldwin
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- "Nothing Personal" by James Baldwin
"From 1801 to 1866, an estimated 3,873,600 Africans were exchanged for gold, guns, and other European and American merchandise."
- Deborah G. Plant
- "Barracoon" by Zora Neale Hurston
- Deborah G. Plant
- "Barracoon" by Zora Neale Hurston
April 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"From 1801 to 1866, an estimated 3,873,600 Africans were exchanged for gold, guns, and other European and American merchandise."
- Deborah G. Plant
- "Barracoon" by Zora Neale Hurston
- Deborah G. Plant
- "Barracoon" by Zora Neale Hurston
Funny TV show. Not funny when it's real.
April 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Funny TV show. Not funny when it's real.
So it's the black woman's fault who had a 100 days to put together a presidential campaign and not the transphobic morons who don't know what a tariff is?
April 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So it's the black woman's fault who had a 100 days to put together a presidential campaign and not the transphobic morons who don't know what a tariff is?
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
April 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
"And all blues are sad,
And I’m only mentioning
Some blues I’ve had."
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
And I’m only mentioning
Some blues I’ve had."
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
April 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"And all blues are sad,
And I’m only mentioning
Some blues I’ve had."
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
And I’m only mentioning
Some blues I’ve had."
- "The Complete Poetry" by Maya Angelou
Proverbs 13:20 – "Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."
April 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Proverbs 13:20 – "Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."
"A fool is a wise man's ladder."
Ghana Proverb
Ghana Proverb
April 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"A fool is a wise man's ladder."
Ghana Proverb
Ghana Proverb
"But I wondered how the justification of blatant and mindless tyranny, on any level, could operate in the interests of liberty, and I wondered what interior, unspoken urgencies of these people made necessary so thoroughly unattractive a delusion."
- "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin
- "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin
April 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"But I wondered how the justification of blatant and mindless tyranny, on any level, could operate in the interests of liberty, and I wondered what interior, unspoken urgencies of these people made necessary so thoroughly unattractive a delusion."
- "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin
- "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin
“How far must you go to gain respect? Um…”
- Q-Tip
- Q-Tip
Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“How far must you go to gain respect? Um…”
- Q-Tip
- Q-Tip
"And there is something demeaning about repeatedly yelling “I am a human” in a world premised on denying that fact."
- "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
April 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"And there is something demeaning about repeatedly yelling “I am a human” in a world premised on denying that fact."
- "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at least finding the other end of it about his own neck."
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
April 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at least finding the other end of it about his own neck."
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Romans 8:31 - "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
April 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Romans 8:31 - "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
“They give us half a life and think we won’t fight for it.” #Severance
April 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“How far must you go to gain respect? Um…”
Q Tip
Q Tip
April 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“How far must you go to gain respect? Um…”
Q Tip
Q Tip
"Home of the brave, land of the free I don’t wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie."
Bourgeois Blues
Lead Belly
Bourgeois Blues
Lead Belly
April 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Home of the brave, land of the free I don’t wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie."
Bourgeois Blues
Lead Belly
Bourgeois Blues
Lead Belly
