this is not a love poem…
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. – Billie Holiday I’m a real rebel with a cause. – Nina Simone “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald “My mother taught [...]
“It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.” – Dorothy Dandridge “Me, sexy? I’m just plain ol’ beans and rice.” – Pam Grier “I would straggle the line between being the bright and smart kid and trying to be cool in the lunch room [...]
“Never wound a snake; kill it.” – Harriet Tubman “Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.” – Mary McLeod Bethune “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: ‘It’s a girl” – Shirley Chisholm “…I want to say to every Negro woman present, don’t sit down and [...]
“Women…make me smile too much…” “I stopped dreaming…and started living…” “I like being the older woman…” “I steal pens, notepads, and lighters…” “I have way too many addictions…” “I hope my son is like Huey…” “It’s something about her…hmmm…yes!” “I like her…she inspires me…” “I’m here…she’s there…this sucks!” “Wonder what her world tastes like…” Billie [...]
“I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.” – Whoopi Goldberg “You never know what motivates you.” – Cicely Tyson “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” – Ruby Dee “You have to be humble when you’re dealing with God.” – Jill Scott “I planned my success. I knew it [...]
“I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people” – Lena Horne Rest In Peace Beautiful… “Just because I have my standards they think I’m a bitch.” – Diana Ross “The first thing you must do is forget that I’m Black. Second, you must never forget that I’m Black.” – Pat Parker [...]
May 11, 2010
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B[E] Fearless…in all that you do! “save me O God, by thy name and judge me by thy strength… hear my prayer O God; give ear to the words of my mouth… for strangers are risen up against me, and opressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah… behold, God [...]
“some people have their own set of insecurities…we have our own set of confidences” – Lovie Olivia It takes courage to have confidence. Many us are afraid to show our confidences for fear that it will be miscontrued as “arrogance”. Often times we “over” humble ourselves into thinking we’re really not that “great”, yet others [...]
“love is a decision…not a feeling” -freidia mitchell from this moment foward…I will always…ALWAYS remember that. it still amazes me how someone can “say” they love you one day, and love someone the next. and it blows my mind when people settle in their quests. i have no problem staying by myself, and being celibate [...]
“one is very crazy when in love” -sigmund freud #co-sign
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