The difference between poetry and rhetoricis being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.
I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered black face off the edge of my sleep blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders is the only liquid for miles…
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the bag my necklaces came in was tiny and my dad just looks at me and says “this is what they sell cocaine in on the streets” and his eyes lit up and he put some baking powder into the bag and put it on the counter and i was like what are you doing… and he was like “i’m going to tell your mom that we found this in your brother’s pocket” jesus christ
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PHILLY!
@yumiyoko have you seen this??
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Why so bullet heavy?
Sankofa translates to “go back and fetch it”. A symbol that reminds all who see it to remember their past. The Sankofa collection is about recalling who we were before the erasure of Black history and culture.
A popular myth is that we accepted our shackles peacefully and waited until Abraham Lincoln blessed us with freedom.
Go back and fetch it: We won our freedom. With Nanny’s military strategy, with Harriet’s pistol, with Dessalines’ declaration, with Nat Turner’s revolt. With resistance, subversive and outright. By the time Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, Maroons and Haitians had taken their freedom already. Revolution was already in the air.
Go back and fetch it: Ya Asantewa, Muhumusa, Nzinga, Yambio, Amina, Menelik II, Shaka Zulu- a few names that represent the unnamed masses who fought the incursion on the African continent.
The “War of Women”, The Zulu War, the Nyakeshenyi Revolts, the Great Revolt, The First Maroon War, the Haitian rebellion- the list goes on.
We fought.
I designed the bullet jewelry to pay homage to that history. I wear it in pride, in as a reminder of who I am, where I come from and what I can do.
We must continue fighting.
In order:
The Nasir $26.00- Features a vintage African kiffa bead and real rifle casing on a brass chain (26 inches). Unisex.
The Lina $21- Featuring a bit of raw turquoise and real, vintage rifle casing on a thin, long antique brass chain ( 24 inches). Unisex.
The Karime necklace $20- A simple necklace featuring just the vintage rifle casing and a copper ball chain.
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are those pants made by karl marx? because dat ass is causing an uprising in my lower class.
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im gonna hire someone to stand behind me and say swag whenever i pause between words
Schwag
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In my tiny rental, my expansive book collection isn’t getting the love it needs. I have to reduce. These books are available for anyone who’d like to take a bid on them. Listing them for best offer. Books with (small) next to them ship for $3.00, books with (med) $4.45 and books with (larg) next to them ship for $7.00. Next to them is the original retail price and the condition. To bid simply message me with what you’re willing to pay.
Full List
Norton Anthology of British literature from 1640-1789, used (Large) New retails for $85. Best offer plus shipping. Description: Notable poetry, essays and other works from 1640-1789. Writers like Alexander Pope.
Make Money Not Excuses by Jean Chatzy. Like new. Orig. price:15.00 Best offer plus shipping. Description: A personal finance book directed at young women.
The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. Used.(small) Orig. price:$10.00 Best offer plus shipping.Description: The third in Pullman’s His Dark Matter series.
The Dive off Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer, hard cover. Used (large) Orig. price: $26.00. Best offer plus shipping. Description: A rich fictional story about a woman who decides to leave everything behind.
The Search for Senna by K.A Applegate. Like new (small) Orig price: 4.99 Best offer plus shipping. Description: The first in best selling author K.A Applegate’s series, Everworld. Young adult, Sci-fi,fantasy.
Or give me death by Ann Rinaldi. Like new (small) Orig price: 11.98 Best offer plus shipping. Description: Historical fiction based on Patrick Henry’s family, this novel centers around his unstable wife and the family tragedy that gave birth to the famous words “Give me liberty or give me death!”
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Hardcover. Brand new(large). Orig. price: 17.13 Best offer plus shipping.Description: One woman explores her father’s library and comes across a secret passed down for hundreds of years, discovered by historians and guarded by evil.
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Hardcover. Brand new (large). Orig. price: 27.95 Best offer plus shipping. Description: Best selling author Dennis Lehanne chronicles two families-one white, one black- at the end of the First World War facing a changing world.
Best Loved Stories told at the National Storytelling Festival. Used (large) Orig. price:9.95 Description: In an effort to preserve American and griot history, storytellers gather for the National Storytelling Festival and tell stories passed down through generations.
In my tiny rental, my expansive book collection isn’t getting the love it needs. I have to reduce. These books are available for anyone who’d like to take a bid on them. Listing them for best offer. Books with (small) next to them ship for $3.00, books with (med) $4.45 and books with (larg) next to them ship for $7.00. Next to them is the original retail price and the condition. To bid simply message me with what you’re willing to pay.
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Best seller New Moon by Stephanie Meyer (small). Never opened. Purchased for $7.00
Second in the trilogy
The Wayward Muse by Elizabeth Hickey(med). Like new. Purchased for $16.00
Description:
Pulled straight from the canvasses of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Hickey’s The Wayward Muse paints a vivid portrait of the mysterious and beautiful Jane Burden, the Pre-Raphaelite icon. A stableman’s daughter raised in the slums of Oxford, seventeen-year-old Jane is convinced of her own homeliness. But her fortunes forever change when she is discovered by the charismatic and irreverent painter, Rossetti. Jane is swept into the artist’s world as model and muse and falls madly in love with him. When Rossetti abruptly leaves her, Jane reluctantly agrees to marry his protege, a shy craftsman named William Morris. But her passion for Rossetti never dies, and years later all three become entangled in a love triangle from which they will never escape. Atmospheric and haunting, Elizabeth Hickey’s latest historic novel gracefully explores the delicate and capricious nature of both love and art.
When your partner nears climax, put a piece of gum in their mouth and say “This is how it feels to chew five gum.”
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THANK YOU FAKE FRANK OCEAN!! NOT EVEN BEING SARCASTIC WHICH MAY BE HARD TO TELL BECAUSE OF THE ALL CAPS BUT I’M SO SINCERE. DON’T FUCKING TALK TO THAT BITCH WHO I HAAAATE.
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In response to a recent increase in crime, Paragould Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall offered residents at a town hall meeting Thursday night at West View Baptist Church what could be considered an extreme solution — armed officers patrolling the streets on foot.
Stovall told the group of almost 40 residents that beginning in 2013, the department would deploy a new street crimes unit to high crime areas on foot to take back the streets.
“[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck,” Stovall said. “If you’re out walking, we’re going to stop you, ask why you’re out walking, check for your ID.”
Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.
“We’re going to do it to everybody,” he said. “Criminals don’t like being talked to.”
Gaskill backed Stovall’s proposed actions during Thursday’s town hall.“They may not be doing anything but walking their dog,” he said. “But they’re going to have to prove it.”FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY.
Papers Please.
Didn’t…didn’t the SS do this?? I’m uncomfortable. I thought this was America.
