Love is thicker

My Name is AFRIKA for nqabeni mthimkhulu  by keorapetse kgositsile

under volcanoes & timeless years within watch and low tones. Around corners, in deep caves among misunderstood and sometimes meaningless sounds. Cut beggars, outlaw pimps & whores. Resurrect work. Check your distance blue. Come earthrise men deepblack and ready, come sunbaked women rootculture on the move. Just do what you're supposed to do, what you say you gonta do not the impossible, not the unimaginative, not copy clothed as original and surely not bitter songs in european melodies. Take hold do the necessary, the possible, the correctly simple talk of mission & interpret destiny put land and selfhood on the minds of our people do the expected, do what all people do reverse destruction. Capture tomorrows 

by Sade

"where will we be when they come?” -Pat Parker

Today i got to spend the day with my favorite cuban artist @danaysuarez for a song I'm featured on called "Tu Seras" from her latest album. A dream come with a sister and friend. Gracias por todo hermana! Please go support her and her music! (at Miami, Florida)

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aja monet book launch for “my mother was a freedom fighter” at Brooklyn Museum. 

“Anzaldúa believed that it is only through autohistoria-teoría that new forms of collectivity and leadership could emerge that would be capable of changing the world. For Anzaldúa, autohistoria-teoría is transfigurative. It is a shamanistic method that depends upon the ability of performance to transform the storyteller and the witness into something or someone else. So I would like to begin today’s keynote by saying that I would like all of us to take leadership at this conference by collectively inhabiting a progressive nadir. The method for doing this is to actively witness what is happening today. Begin by writing down interesting words, ideas, or concepts — words that strike you as moving — words you can take home with you. Words like nadir, for example, apex or autohistoria-teoria may enable you to make connections beyond what we now know. When you stand and deliver, sharing those connections with us, you transform from passive-witness members of the audience into active witnesses. As you speak you are transformed and transformer, leader, shaman. I am convinced that this kind of “shaman-witness ritual” is crucial to any methodology of emancipation. It is through this kind of spoken word art performance activism, or SWAPA ritual, that speakers and audience can be connected into a single community of activists.” - Chela Sandoval, April 2007

Watch Aja Monet recite poems at Black Male Reimagined at Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in DC with Samora Pinderhuges, Linton Smith, and special guests.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd9UZBkd9o)