January 2012
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Have a listen.
“Usually, I don’t put myself out there as if afraid to hear what others may think. It scares the piss out of me. But this time, I just want to be heard even if the quality of my voice isn’t something beautiful. This is a small collection of songs I have been writing on and off for the past 6 months. I’d write more to give the listener an idea of what these songs are about,...
August 2011
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Hello All!
Thank you all so much for following, firstly. Appreciate you so much.
We’re currently starting a small organization based in the east coast. This blog might be moving to a new home and starting anew. We will definitely keep you posted once that happens. If you are interested in following us there, please send a message.
Thank you all for all of the art work and the messages, that have...
May 2011
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Strength
While most people count sheep, she’s counting T cells -helper -killer T cells. Help her, kill her T cells. As she sells her soul to get the pills she needs to fulfill her needs that will ultimately add to her needs more pain, more pills, less t cells, more strength.
Because it doesn’t take morning to remind her she’s alive. The pain does that for her. Each sunrise is the starting line of a...
TheCreativeRoutine: Bags →
thecreativeroutine:
The bags which stare at you from underneath these eyes tell no lies. They are tell-tale signs of the nights I have survived. Nights that are derived from my lack of an iron will or drive, my knack for piss poor planning, and my inadequate foresight. But don’t take me as contrite. I…
April 2011
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Just want to say a big Thank You to all who submit and have submitted. Your work is meaningful and priceless.
And Thank You to all of our followers, for the kind messages, and for being who you are. I appreciate you.
Longer update post coming soon! Soon soon.
So Thank You guys, all of you.
You are awesome. Thanks for being you. Wishing you a peace filled week and weekend.
Stay UP
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My Mid-Year Essay for Youth Leadership Rutherford
The development of a true leader begins with the understanding of one’s weaknesses along with one’s strengths. Before I was accepted into Youth Leadership Rutherford, I knew that I had immense amounts of work to do. Although I had gained a new independence and self-confidence while away at the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities at UT Martin, I was still unsure of how to use...
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Honey, the tea is ready.
Dear lover, you flung me like a baseball bat against the dirt and ran the quickest you had ever ran in your life; your soul ran ten seconds before your own breaths. And I watched you, with my navel swirling like an earthquake because my ears captured too much of the grumble that your legs made against the pavement. They forgot to take the grumble out — and like tea in a kettle left abandoned...
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Poem : ALL SHE WANTS IS LOVE.
All she wants is love I can see it in her being I can feel it in her soul Her eyes tell me everything Even though she’s taken… She has no ears to talk to… No shoulder to cry on… No one to tell her she is appreciated I am here to let her know that fairytales DO still exist Romance and chivalry are NOT dead.. and good guys ARE still around I can’t promise perfection But! what I can promise is.. A...
January 2011
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Imagining War, Imagining Peace, Imagining John
I was not alive when John Lennon was alive. I was not listening to his music while he was playing it. I wish I could have walked the streets of New York City while he marched and yelled out “Power to the People” but the concept of walking was not even possible for I had no legs and yet I feel as if I remember him and what the world was like back before imagine became an image tiled on on the...
November 2010
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Update and A big warm welcome to new followers,
Hello all new followers, and those that have been following since day 1!
An Eternal thanks for sticking with us. Thank you, thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you for being so great.
I sincerely apologize for the break in updating the blog, I hope you guys can forgive me for that. I have been working on a project that will hopefully benefit Uproar and all those who support and all...
October 2010
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Watchthepracticalheart:
sedoctaves singing ‘and so it goes’ at practice. :) hope you enjoy.
this song is different than what we normally do…most of our songs employ beatboxing, one or two soloists and everyone else doing the instruments…but I reeeeeally love our singing of this song.
Like.
A lot.
“Top priority
Peace before everything,
GOD before anything
Love before...”
– Mos Def (via entermycourts)
Indeed, Mos. Indeed.
(via caitsmeissner)
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We Are a Prideful People
My blood runs dark; its stream flows strong. As powerful as the Nile, rich as the oil fields of West Africa. My blood is regal; my ancestry affluent. My family tree is prominent, like the great pyramids of Egypt. My blood’s been shed, over deep-running roots. Yet my heritage is free. We are a prideful people.
Submitted by: thecreativeroutine.tumblr.com
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vapor trail
i say your name as i walk down the street and strangers stop to look to see who i am calling to and they vaguely register but are quickly forgotten your vapor trail wends ‘round them and through my thoughts and i cannot be distracted from following you today you said that we cannot know what would have happened if it had been different between us and i guess that’s as true as true can be but...
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So there is this path that you go down
a little bit further every day.
People, other people, have been on similar paths.
Maybe a few intersected with you, whereas others have ran parallel for as long as you can remember.
But the path, this path? This one is all yours. To keep.
It was forged with two-parts heartbreakingbeuaty and one-part ultimatefuck.
Built custom. For you.
At some point, someone teaches you something.
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A Message From Ellen →
A video by Ellen Degeneres. Your story is important, your life is important. We honor the lives and stories of those who have passed by remembering their life and by surviving every day, to live to tell our story.
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ML/TF: Part V
tobia:
Scenes. Vignettes.
on mylar.
on vellum.
The Huckleberry Finn Exhibition, @ the Wattis Institute, SF
(Excerpts from the opening: basically what I paid the most attention to. I should go back and reexamine/make-another-attempt at the experience at a later date)
Kara Walker.
Hank Willis Thomas. (CCA Grad Alum) GAH!...
September 2010
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mrwcase:
betwixtintrepidity:
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~Cloths of Heaven, W. B....
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The Guilt of a Thief by Riya Nishat Hamid
I do not weave dreams of people loving me, no, no. What an abominable thing to do. I do not think of a pair of restful arms sheltering the frailty that was once yours. Weaves can always be undone by sundown. You wake up to a giant yawn and see my face in your tea. Boiling right into your fingertips into a never-ending stream. I know exactly how...
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Watch
Poet Caits Meissner releases her second EP, The Wolf & Me, May 1, 2010 Executive Produced by Just Plain Ant; featuring Maya Azucena, Jesse Boykins III, Dunce Apprentice and Broke MC; with production by Blu, Cazeaux OSLO, Just Plain Ant, Bisco Smith, Cave and The Aftermath.
Caits Meissner, well-known for her writing in respected poetry circles, and work as an educator/community organizer in...
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Watchcaitsmeissner:
One of my bestest friends IN THE WORLD. We hung during lunch hour on the steps in downtown Brooklyn today, with the sunshine on our faces and laughed and laughed. She seriously makes life more joyful. Check out her new project. Its called LoveBomb. She’ll make your days better, sonically. Trust.
(Here’s a secret. Someone who’s blog you read may be on the project…)
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Alive in Truth records life histories of people... →
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The Voices of Hurricane Katrina, Part 1
What are the ethics of poetic appropriation?
by Abe Louise Young
On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we heard from two poets who describe how primary sources from the disaster can and should be used for art. This is Part I.
Abe Louise Young is a poet, teacher and oral historian based in Austin, TX. She directed Alive in Truth: the New Orleans Disaster Oral History Project from...
Thank you!!!
Thank you all who are submitting! Thank you to all those who have recently followed Uproar and all old followers sticking with us! Thank you so much to all those who have left incredibly kind messages in our ask box! We’ve reached over 1,000 followers, that is so exciting! I hope you all are having a great start to the new semester and new season, whether working or in school. I’m...
“Write your way out of it.”
– Nikki Giovanni (via amcleod)
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Two Seconds - Spoken word by Amber Huffman
Give me two seconds to take two seconds to breathe Without seething. I can see you in your skin - Built like a language Sharp - thrown accurately, like a javelin – I can feel your fingers and their dialects, Their heritage and shallow history
- The mystery of my people has been unveiled
To unearthly, unholy and heart-wrenching
As they, we, they were murdered and thrown into trenches along, say,...
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Hey boys and girls
stagekids:
Some upcoming shit from the stage kids: shows shows shows and more shows. New jams, tunes, songs, shit and more crap and stuff and things until we decide it’s not fun anymore and self destruct…
Check out their music here! -> http://soundcloud.com/jasongdejesus
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oceanofmind:
Although I may try to describe Love when I experience it I am speechless. Although I may try to write about Love I am rendered helpless; my pen breaks and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where Lover, Loving and Loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
— Rumi
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Arriving
On the day after we got drunk and ate our troubles away, everything got clearer and the sharpness of the broken bottles on the floor pierce our eyes with clarity, reflecting the sun. The empty closet of our father stared at us with silence while our mother was still asleep, to be awaken by the crows arriving on our windows minutes after.
[submitted by http://pulsecheck.tumblr.com/]
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The 90s: The Golden Age of Black Entertainment
by dreamhard
Last night as I re-watched Love Jones for the millionth time, I had an epiphany. The 90’s was the best time to be black and be in entertainment. And at first my mind wanted to separate the decade between early 90’s and late but in general the 90’s were just a GREAT time to be young, black, and talented.
I feel that my generation (20ish - 29ish give or take), us 80’s babies, grew...
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Inside Of My Head
You’ve wedged yourself, deep inside of my head. I see you within my dreams, when I go to bed. You’re everything, I’ve ever wanted. The air that I breathe. That one dream that is always so vivid.
I do my best, not to think of you. But it’s so very hard, as I go about the things that I need to do. You’re stuck inside of my head, even when I don’t want you there....
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Great message
Love your mission. My sister and I have a non-profit ion which we aim for the same cause—To give a voice to innovative artists while raising funds for orphanages overseas. Check us out when you get a chance. Would love your support. www.AgainstTheGrainProductions.com
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Thank you so much. I visited your website today and am in love with your mission and the work that you are doing. I...
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Colvin Wilt, Urbanite: There Is Something Stronger... →
I want you to remember a voice. A voice so tranquil and smooth that it instantly grips you. Maybe when you close your eyes you can imagine waves crashing beneath a promontory. Maybe above you the moon is glorious, surrounded by the somnolent and marvelous colors of the night. The clouds gather around it, and from the surfaces of their cotton and gauze the moon is reflected and intensified. You...
August 2010
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“For now, I am thankful for grace and also for music. I feel like I find God in...”
– Jamie Tworkowski in an interview by Off the Record in response to question “What do you do personally to keep your spiritual life active and healthy?”
I agree so much that you can find God (whatever your perception of God may be) in the arts. In music, in dance, in poetry. In any art...