February 2012
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“Hoping that I could literally steal a glance, download it onto my retinas and...”
– Joshua Bennett (via akabomb)
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“I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”
“I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.”
“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess...
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“If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don’t feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there’s too much that I still want to do.”
“I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.”
“I just don’t want to die...
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“I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.”
“You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.”
“Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.”
Lauryn Hill
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“I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”
“I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.”
“Being realistic is...
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“If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.”
“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”
“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I...
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“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.”
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
Langston Hughes
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.”
“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
Alice Walker
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“By striving hard to make our word bond, we develop trust and confidence in all our relationships.”
“God has created nothing mediocre. Everything He created is marked with Excellence.”
“If we are ignorant at a time like this, then our ignorance will be the means of our destruction.”
Louis Farrakhan
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“I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.”
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.”
“You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.”
Billie Holiday
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“Our position was: “If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.”
“We didn’t care if you were white, black, green, yellow or polka-dotted. We just wanted to know where your heart was.”
“We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to...
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“Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.”
“So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else’s.”
“Our criteria for deciding what’s good and what’s bad is very fickle, especially in this country.”
Roberta Flack
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“I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for ‘Soul Train.”
“We can’t make it important to anybody else. Some of the audience we serve doesn’t really care about what you did yesterday and you have to be cognizant of that … But it’s important to us.”
“Love Peace and...
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January 2012
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ForTheFuckOfIt Mixtape by @TheEbadan has finally...
steevosupremo:
http://www.datpiff.com/mixtapes-detail.php?id=309142
“A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.”
– Arabian Proverb
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What controls our heart controls our lives...
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“An idol is anything in my life that occupies a place that should be occupied by God alone… An idol is something that holds such a controlling position in my life that it moves and rouses and attracts me so easily that I give my time, attention, and money to it effortlessly”
-Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones.
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Watchsnook-thecrook:
Word Up!
Hol’ Up I see you
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They was like aye My'Key how did your birthday go?
N I was like I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, and I don’t really be out on the scene, although I did go to the hookah bar at 12 am. I woke up early to phone calls and my mom singing me an off-key happy birthday song. She said a prayer with me then told me to go grocery shopping smh… I went back to sleep. I reflected back on my life just to see how I’ve developed over my...
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January 13 Hol up...
Fearless, reckless, eager to meet all life’s challenges — that sums up January 13 Capricorns, who often lead a tumultuous existence. They often give the impression of being emotionally unstable, but they have the power to learn from their mistakes. They can see the funny side of even the most difficult situation.
Friends and Lovers
Blessed with a pleasing personality and happy...
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