One people. One nation. One destiny. Happy Independence Day Guyana! #May261966 (Taken with instagram)
Letter to my unborn, not yet conceived son..
(In memory of Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Emmett Till and the other Black men we’ve lost.)
To my black prince,
Innocent Eyes
Gentle Mouth
Untainted Ears
Flawless Skin
Perfect child
This heart will love you
Deeply
These arms will hold you
Tightly
As much as I can…
But this world will
Fear you
Despise you
Degrade you
Parade you
Mis-educate you
Deceive you
Imprison you
Drug you
Deploy you and
MURDER
You
And
Those that share your hue…
The odds will be against you,
They will blame…
Dropout rate
Imprisonment rate
Unemployment rate
The odds are rarely even
The world will think less of you
But I,
your father and I,
WE
Will see
The beauty in you
The boldness in you
The intelligence in you
The teacher in you
The preacher in you
The healer in you
The god in you
The leader in you
The Marcus Garvey in you
The Malcolm X in you
The Walter Rodney in you
The Imhotep in you
The African kings in you
They will FEAR
You
But the world’s vision of you
does not compare
To our vision
To God’s vision
For you
so enter this world boldly, my prince
Ignore the voices that committed you before you arrived
You belong here
You deserve to survive.
You deserve to live.
Welcome.
npr:
“Who am I? It’s not important. But me? They call me brother to the night. And right now… I’m the blues in your left thigh… trying to become the funk in your right.” — Darius Lovehall
(via Love Jones Director Theodore Witcher Remembers the Beloved Classic)
“Allow me to break it down so that it can forever and consistently be ba-roke…” this is one of my all-time favorite movies. — Tanya
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
– C. S. Lewis (via girlwithoutwings)(Source: quote-book)
Via Quote Book:for all the effort given
in the road of flings and flames
romance is all about
nothing more than fun and games.
it’s really elementary
when it was all so simple then
it’s fun in its intent
but we all aim to win.
we dance and dance and dance
until the sun sets and rises again
we play and…
