September 2012
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Watchhttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hercelluloidself/sweet-sweet-country-a-refugees-tale
Sweet, Sweet Country is a refugee’s tale set in the South - an exploration of the America Dream.
Launched: Aug 8, 2012
Funding ends: Sep 4, 2012
Project by Dehanza Rogers
on hold.
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“We all dream of royalty, but that’s who we are baby”
– “Presidential” (via eighthofjune)
*so true and so real
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feeling looked after by strangers in strange places.
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was invited to a gang of bbq’s this weekend by random strangers in north philly. will have a full weekend of food and conversation to say the least.
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What It Means To Be A Best Friend →
We often take for granted how precious a thing it is to be a best friend, how many people can’t freely use that term, how many have never experienced that very particular kind of love. When you think about it, to pronounce someone in your life as being more important than all of those other friends somehow, as being on a different plane of relationship that, despite not being romantic, is still...
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ever enter a room and think, “let the shadiness begin…”?
i don’t want to be in rooms like this anymore. although im starting to think this may be impossible.
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Watchderica:
Isaac Julien | True North (clip1)
Julien describes True North as a cinematic “re-memorizing” of the story of Matthew Henson, the black engineer who accompanied polar explorer Robert Peary in 1909 on the first expedition to reach the North Pole. The video’s narration is taken from a shocking interview Henson gave in 1966, in which, 30 years after Peary’s death, Henson claimed that he...
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Watch@alicesmithmusic just launched a Kickstarter campaign for her new album ‘SHE’.
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if you have ever seen this woman live you already know…SUPPORT!!!
CEREUS ARTS: ANNOUNCING REVIVAL 2012 FEATURED... →
cereusarts:
To find out more about the featured poets, touring troupe and favorite poems follow @revivalpoetry. Now…
Announcing Our Featured Poets!
BROOKLYN STAND UP || CHARAN MORRIS FEATURES|| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
Charan P. Morris is a poet/educator transplanted from Chicago to New York. In…
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“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what...”
– bell hooks (via tobia)
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'...Conventions are always full of cheap applause... →
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wherethewildthingsmoved replied to your post: had an elder pray for me to be safe as i walk the…
What did Ms. Jean look like?
caramel brown skin. brown hair. sweet face.
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had an elder pray for me to be safe as i walk the north philly streets doing my field research.
thank you ms. jean.
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“just give me that base, she listening to Ross now give me that face…”
– A$AP Rocky, Freeze, A$AP MOB-Lord$ Never Worry.
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Four white people plot to assassinate the... →
angrybrownbaby:
myflagisblackandred:
(… And still aren’t “terrorists.”)
…what.
*this is nuts.
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved…in secret…between the shadow...”
– (via jusbfodawn)
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“she never met a G, until she heard of me”
– Rick Ross, Presidential
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fast friends.
if we met once at a party or event, that does not make us friends. a retweet or reblog, same deal. cause i added you on fb? nah. i add everyone. folks need to chill with that. its odd how folks can really start to put on responsibilities that come with friendship when there hasn’t even been a real relationship developed. i only have a few close friends and the majority of them i’ve...
“If you’re a poor kid, or you can’t afford to work for free, and people are...”
– John Williams, the founder of non-profit Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, which mentors underprivileged youth to prepare them for work in the film industry, said he thinks that the practice is skewing the entire industry away from equal representation.
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via dreamhampton1)
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all these notes. one thing to write them. another thing to organize them.
give me strength.
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calendar full of deadlines for September. and im trying to hit everyone.
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