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yesterday, i blogged under a new theme: simply streaming: writing whatever comes to mind and posting. i’ve decided to set myself the challenge of simply streaming for 30 days starting today. of course being a writer, such posts will be edited – minimally. as someone commented on a previous blog, i rarely use capitalization when…
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i don’t know why but in the midst of watching planet b-boy, this poem by langston hughes crossed my mind: Militant Let all who will Eat quietly the bread of shame. I cannot, Without complaining loud and long, Tasting its bitterness in my throat, And feeling to my very soul It’s wrong. For honest work…
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i didn’t make it. thirty poems in thirty days seems to be beyond me. last year i lasted about a week. this year, i did about a total of two weeks worth but it was haphazard. some days, i wouldn’t write/post anything. two days later, i’d write/post two or three poems. the week my son…
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when I was in high school, an english teacher told me if i have nothing to write, write about nothing. so because i really have nothing to say right about now, here goes my exploration into nothingness….and into your sufferation for reading! ha! randomness is hard. i always thought so since i first understand the…
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For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria: I’ve started reading this already but have been interrupted by other reading interludes: A Thousand Splendid Suns; Something Torn and New; I, Alex Cross; The Epic of Askia Mohammed; Our Sister Killjoy. I’ll be discussing some of them in later posts as they do fit the…
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I was going to refuse to cook for him
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Word Press Tags: tichaona chinyelu, ngugi wa thiong’o, linguicide, something torn and new “Africans, in the diaspora and on the continent, were soon to be recipients of this linguistic logic of conquest, with two results: linguicide in the case of the diaspora and linguistic famine, or linguifam, on the continent. Linguicide is the linguistic equivalent of genocide. Genocide involves…
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Referencing Chapter V: Could Egyptian Civilization Be of Asian Origin? I just finished reading Chapter V: Could Egyptian Civilization Be of Asian Origin. In this blog, I’m going to focus on the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon. The reason for this is because it provides a clear case of the depth of the lies…
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