February 2011
I think I make the best PBnJ sandwich in the nation!
Tumblr must be based in Europe(or close to it). I’ve been checking archives of fellow Tumblrs and noticed that recent posts have been showing up under February already. I’m on the east coast and it’s more than an hour away from February. Jussayin.
“I’m for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or...”
– Richard Pryor
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January 2011
“The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The...”
– Barack Obama
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in...”
– Jackie Robinson
Happy Born Day.
Cairo, Georgia. 1919
“A certain administration which I won’t call by name took the arts out of...”
– Isaac Hayes
Egypt military steps up presence in chaotic Cairo... →
Club Crystal......
……is calling my name! I haven’t been to my favorite reggae spot in a while and it looks like I’ll be there tonight!!! Can’t wait to get my happy ass on the dance floor and grind it out until 6 a.m. I gotta get my head right 1st and I’m gone! Look out dance hall queens, here I come!!!
Peace
“I know you don’t smoke weed, I know this; but I’m gonna get you high...”
– Smokey
from Friday(1995)
“I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the...”
– Bill Maher (via leftish)
At base, First Lady calls for war on fat -... →
“An Alabama law firm claims in a lawsuit that Taco Bell is using false...”
– Taco Bell Sued Over Meat That’s Just 35 Percent Beef
“You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the...”
– Ivan Van Sertima
“……And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and...”
– Tupac Shakur
“I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic...”
– Nina Simone
“I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as...”
– Marcus Garvey
Babysitter charged with child neglect, accused of... →
“You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.”
– Dave Chappelle
My state has blessed the world with musical...
Wow!
Sitting here baking and listening to some classic jazz on this cloudy and dreary day, I’ve come to realize that my home state of North Carolina has blessed us with some of the best talent in the nation. When Blue Monk at Carnegie Hall from 1957 came on, I realized that these two brothers are from right here. John Coltrane is from Hamlet, NC and Thelonious Monk is from Rocky Mount, NC. Now,...
“A climate of alienation has a profound effect on the Black personality,...”
– Cheikh Anta Diop
“And I guess what I would say is that we can’t think narrowly about...”
– Angela Davis
Born today 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama
“I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29,...”
– Anita Baker
Born today 1958 in Toledo, Ohio
“Uh, who shot Biggie Smalls
If we don’t get them
They gonna get us all...”
– Dead Prez
Hip Hop
“It’s bigger than hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip hop
Uh, one thing...”
– Dead Prez
Hip Hop
The people's revolution.Tahrir Square, Cairo,...
afrocentricmiss:
fearlesslyraw:
Let’s go Egypt.
Freedom is worth fighting for.
“My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,...”
– John Henrik Clarke
