Category: quotes
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Queen & Slim: The Rides
I saw Queen & Slim (Q&S) and liked it but had some major issues with it. However what intrigued me the most about the movie wasn’t their ride to freedom, but the rides, themselves. There were six distinct automobiles that Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) were in that made me use a different…
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qotw: Keep going
I haven’t done a qotw in a hot minute…OK, here goes! The key to writing and writing well is to keep writing, no matter the hell is happening. — Paul Cantor (@PaulCantor) June 14, 2018 While I was in my “writing slump,” I came across the tweet above and I totally agreed. So slowly,…
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qotw: Oprah’s Speech at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards
Remember when Roc-A-Fella sold Reasonable Doubt as a whole on iTunes because they believed that the album’s greatness shouldn’t be sold in parts (singles) because you would be cheating yourself? This is how I feel about Oprah’s speech last night as she received the Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 75th Gold Globe Awards.…
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qotw: flower bloom
“Makin’ sure my punctuation curve, every letter here’s true Livin’ my life in the margin and that metaphor was proof I’m talkin’ poetic justice, poetic justice If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room Would you trust it? I mean, you need to [read] this…” Kendrick Lamar, “Poetic Justice” In what…
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qotw: shining light
“My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.” The Egyptian Book of The Dead
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qotw: self-love
If you really want to know who loves you for you, start loving yourself. First of all, I am loved. I am loved by amazing people who show it various ways, even if they curse me out, because clearly, I needed to be checked. I am extremely lucky to have people who are just a…
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qotw: what suffers?
“Some things suffer” –MC By no means do I have things figured out. I’m learning new things every day. Experience and the others’ wisdom have been my guiding lights. One of those people is my home girl from college. Mother, entrepreneur and homeowner are a few ways to describe her. I watched an ambitious young woman…
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qotw: lessons from the land
“when you pull something in nature the rest of the world is connected.” Since the only Christophers we acknowledge are Wallace and Rios. I decided today’s quote would come from Judy Dow, an educator, activist and Abenaki (pronounced Wa-ba-naki) basket maker from Vermont. In “Lessons from the Land” Dow discusses the Vermont eugenics projects of…
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qotw: the light and the darkness
“maybe dawn is not in the sunlight every morning, maybe it is in the middle of the night when you hold yourself against the darkness. you are sitting quietly and feeling yourself break apart yet knowing this hour, this very hour, you are finding yourself. maybe this is your dawn. maybe for you, the first…
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qotw: burying bodies
And they have haunted my heart, thoughts and soul…until one day, they decided to make a deal with me. They would stop on two conditions: 1) I forgave myself for the burials of the past 2) Never be silent again. We made a deal. Every once in a while one would resurrect, but never for…