June 2011
37 posts
“Be on time for a nothin’ - a little late for a lot.”
– Lupe Fiasco
“…We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face,...”
– Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd - CNN.com (via lavvocato)
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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington (via randopolis)
“An effective social movement needs people who are more interested in developing...”
– Ella Baker (via black-culture)
“But poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.”
– Adrienne Rich
“I do not believe that truth-telling exists in a bubble, sealed off from the...”
– Adrienne Rich | Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“[Rap] expresses the desire of young black people to reclaim their history,...”
– Michael Eric Dyson.
…someone should tell that to Soulja Boy, Gucci Mane and the like. Just sayin’… (via babyboygreen)
“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that...”
– Michael Eric Dyson (via krystallizashun)
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
– Robert Frost (via estincelle)
“There’s no hard-and-fast definition of what it means to be a real man. We’re...”
– Michael Eric Dyson (via ezmo82)
“There are enabling insights in poststructuralism that to me are very important…...”
– Cornel West (via whoisrobdavis)
“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does...”
– William Butler Yeats (via ihaveabellybutton)
“…dreams propel ambition.”
– Charlayne Hunter- Gault
“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or...”
– William Godwin - Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls...
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
– Emilie Buchwald (via firstbook)
“If you do well in America, you should do well by America.”
– Van Jones
“Hurt people hurt people.”
– Steve Wilson
I’m black, African-American, Negro - whatever you’d like to call me - and as such, I’m a part of a “Complicated Club.”
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those wolves...
You know, there is an old Native American legend that goes something like this:
An old Cherokee told his grandson about a legendary battle that goes on inside all the people of the earth. He said, “Grandson, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority,...
Saturday, June 04, 2011 // Spiritual Maturity is...
Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve and to give my life. Matthew 20:28 (LB)
We are commanded to serve God. Jesus was very clear: “Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve and to give my life” (Matthew 20:28 LB).
For Christians, service is not something to be tacked onto our schedules...
