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“…We listen out of a borrowed nostalgia for an unremembered, pre-internet...”
– On why young folks (like me) are listening to vinyl records These Apps Are Helping A New Generation Of Audiophiles Rediscover Vinyl | Gizmodo Australia
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Kinda Sorta Response to Ntozake Shange
I self-identify as a feminist & a womanist.   I understand the need to be united under one identity. I also understand the need to target a uniquely equipped group of folk who can analyze matrices of identities  & social locations such as race, ethnicity, nationalist, class, sex assignment, gender  and sexual orientation.  I really don’t think we need to choose between labels. In the...
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December 2011
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“On a good night, I may work on up to seven poems, each in a different stage...”
– Rita Dove on the Best American Poetry Blog http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/12/until-the-fulcrum-tips-a-conversation-with-rita-dove-and-jericho-brown.html (via blackfeminismlives)
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Les Nubians Dancing  (by Brandi Pettijohn)
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“For introverts like myself, it takes energy to engage with other people. Doing...”
– I’m not shy so it’s hard to explain to my friends that I’m an introvert. Social anything drains me. I charge from solitude.  4 Ways Technology Can Enable Your Inner Introvert - Philip Bump - Technology - The Atlantic
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“our relationship to our blackness is very ….. I wanna say an intercontinental...”
– Read the rest at Blackamazon is too much:  
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Novie singing “Funk 3(I Want To Get Next To You)” Follow the link to BoldasLove.Us to learn more about the artist and the choreography from @robfields.
Jul 27th
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Reading Retreats
The ideal reading retreat to my mind would involve four or five friends renting a big country house for a long weekend (at least three full days). They ought to be people who know each other well enough that they won’t be tempted to spend all their time either getting acquainted or catching up. Everyone agrees that the rooms with the comfiest chairs are strict quiet zones. Everyone takes...
Jul 13th
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“The idea that we don’t research, read and study is wrong. The idea that we...”
– - Author Sapphire Her new novel The Kid, sequel to Push is already out.  http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-07-04-sapphire-the-kid_n.htm
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Of Another Fashion: This photograph titled “Picnic... →
ofanotherfashion: This photograph titled “Picnic group, Highland Beach, Md / 1931” shows 21 girls from the local YWCA sitting in and on what has been identified as a 1929 Packard Model 633 8-cylinder Rumble Seat Roadster. I assume that the man wearing the dress shirt and tie in the background is the adult…
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Aggregate: A Blues Poem
muselady11: He’s just hopped off the train In Houston, twisting an ankle on the way. Left dried up dirt and family In Georgia to plant a new life In the city. Sounds like steam escaping, But it’s just cars, rail cars, Filling up with aggregate— Pebbles pouring in shifts To fill a city with concrete and steel. He can hear the land screaming, Until the pebbles bury it In sterile silence While...
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“Ain’t nobody comin’ to see you, Otis! You wish you could work it the way I do,...”
– The Temptations (1998)   (via feedmeastraycal)
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The African American Dream →
Baraka, who once famously declared “it’s nation time,” argues that the urgency is gone because younger people and middle-class African Americans have replaced the idea of community with the ideal of the American Dream. “There are a whole lot of people in the younger generation that think things have always been like this —that it’s about them, personally, moving on up, like the show used to say,...
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