May 2012
2 posts
March 2012
6 posts
West African Pidgin Word of the Day : Pikin
thatnigeriankid:
Pikin
Definition: Used to refer to a child.
Example
1. You get pikin?
Do you have a child?
2. Your pikin fine-o.
Your child is very attractive.
History lesson: Similar to the Jamaican Patois word “pikney” also meaning “child”.
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February 2012
5 posts
“Imma be there in 5 minutes”
– Classic African American tall tale (via squirtelle)
January 2012
12 posts
dream hampton: Walk, Don't Run, To Red Tails →
Lucas. doing the most. Good intentions but Tyler Perry? lol out of sync much? The whole point is add mroe black leads, characters that arent cringe-worthy on screen. We want all black movies too but I want to see us in EVERY movie. all of that isnt hinged on the success of this ONE movie… negro.. - I mean - Lucas please.
dreamhampton1:
Today is the day the future of big budget Black...
““A white woman with a black booty is like a pack of psychological...”
– http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/12/celebrating-the-black-beauty-on-white-women/ (via kwesiabbensetts)
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“African people need to stop shouting ‘nationtime’ until they are...”
– Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Watchso glad to see this on tumblr. the homey Bearphace put me on to this video years ago. Its been one of those internet things you see that you never forget. happy to watch it again and reblog. also wish he’d talked about the patterns being used in EVERYTHING.. from hair plaits to artwork to clothing to symbols. I know they didnt REALLY think aliens came and built the pyramids? lol I heart us,...
“A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does...”
December 2011
6 posts
“The role of the revolutionary artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
– Toni Cade Bambara (via jonubian)
—agreed!
“The role of the revolutionary artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
– Toni Cade Bambara (via jonubian)
—agreed!
“What is it about distance that enables us to acknowledge emotional need? Does...”
– bell hooks (via restoried
)
Riley's Test for black woman approved media:
I’d repalce #3 with: and is thoughtful about stereotypes and our reality. Its okay if we do shit with white women. just as long as we’re not their maid/saviour/nanny/mami/comic relief/oracle/hair dresser/sassy-onedimensional-best-friend-slash-token.. sigh. that rules out every media except Oprah :)
brazenbitch:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
1—A black woman exists 2—And does something...
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate...”
– sigh.
wish I could just download all her shit directly to the brain and then just hit “upgrade”.
bell hooks (via thebigwhiteroom) (via jonubian)
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Mr. Nigeria 2011 →
I’m SO okay with this… I’m so happy that this exists at all and that participation is so.. embraced :) They’re all gorgeous.. and its like that in the streets too.. even the boys selling phone cards on the highway lol. Hey, its one way to pass time in traffic.
easssssy @ igbo boys tho…
November 2011
38 posts
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Chinua Achebe: The Day I Finally Met Baldwin →
lol @ “That man, Okonkwo, is my father…” that is so Baldwin.
Achebe’s short but sweet memory of the day he met Baldwin.
Other greats on Baldwin: http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/525
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“He may be a very nice man. But I haven’t got the time to figure that out....”
– James Baldwin
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“We have today the technical and material resources to meet man’s animal needs....”
– Noam Chomsky - Government in the future (via noam-chomsky)
Chomsky is a beast… infinitely quotable. He should be president of the world.
“This movement has given voice to a near-universal frustration with the economic...”
– -Ethan Nichtern (along with other Buddhist and Yoga teachers on the Occupy Movement, found here in full length http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ethan-nichtern/buddhist-support-occupy-wall-street_b_1078689.html )
Simone de Beauvoir on being a subject.
jonubian:
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue none the less to exist to him also; mutually recognizing each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other.
Just Jo: Chinua Achebe on becoming a writer →
jonubian:
Then I grew older and began to read about adventures in which I didn’t know that I was supposed to be on the side of those savages who were encountered by the good white man. I instinctively took sides with the white people. They were fine! They were excellent. They were intelligent. The others…
“I often tell a story about a conversation I observed in a feminist theory...”
–
Michael S. Kimmel, Ph. D., “Gender Equality: Not for Women Only” (via thepoliticalpartygirl)
Dr. Kimmel is also a blogger for Ms. Magazine, and we’ve never heard someone explain the privilege of privilege so succinctly. Bravo.
(via motherjones)
“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until...”
– Jimmy Baldwin (via jonubian)
“Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is so profound,...”
– Noam Chomsky Bitches! (via jonubian)
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“But it is impossible not to recognize that the people who are endlessly boasting...”
– James Baldwin from “A Letter to Prisoners” (via jonubian)
“I cannot hide my anger to spare your guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering...”
– Audre Lorde, “Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (via directcitation)
!!!!! AUDRE !!!!!!
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“Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need for this bright morning dawning for...”
– Maya Angelou
