i love poetry and in particular, spoken word joints. however, that mcdonalds commercial is the dumbest shit i've ever seen on television (excluding fox programming of course ( Read more... )

i don't feel like doing SHIT this week. i just want to sit back and chill. bring on the weekend already!

for empowering my folks to demand their rights as human beings ( Read more... )

so yesterday we took the girls from femtech to a day full of activities celebrating martin luther king's birthday. we started off at an southern christian leadership conference youth symposium dealing with poverty, education, and the juvenile justice system. it was dry and we were bored, so we left that borefest for a youth summit taking place at ( Read more... )

I am black

Deep without bottom
Dark without light
Sky without twinkle
Eyes without sight

Shadow without sun
Coffee without cream
Tunnel without ending
Sleep without dreams

I have been taught
To think thoughts like that
Cuz nothing sprouts beautiful
When you are black

i crochetted my first ponchos for gifts this past christmas after knitting a shitload of scarves for everyone the previous years. i even knitted a few caps! i wish i had taken photos, but that'd be too much like right ( Read more... )

everyone is always talking about resolutions and how stupid they are and how stupid people are to have them. why is this so? i see resolutions as a chance to rededicate one's self to attaining the goals he or she finds important. each new year brings a new opportunity to revisit those goals you had set for yourself in the previous year, take stock ( Read more... )

so a few years ago evidently i had a check that bounced when i paid for my tuition back then. i was in school for another whole year before i realized what had happened (as my job has been paying for my school since that point ( Read more... )

she was a petite little thing, seven going on seventy with skin the color of milk with a dab of strawberry jam stirred in it. her hair was baby fine, like silk thread the color of roasted almonds. she and her surrogate foster mom stopped by my parents' house the day after thanksgiving. that was the first time i had ever seen a white child within ( Read more... )

she definitely has a way of bringing forth unexpected blessings ( Read more... )