Gems.

Tell me who you love and I'll tell you who you are.


-Creole Proverb

Muse.

Mother and Daughter. Diana and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Their hair is enough to make anyone swoon.

Gems.

When people don't love me
the way I want them to
it's like getting a Christmas gift
I'll never use.


-Shellel Freeman

Gems.

... Fear warns that this may kill me, spirit knows that it will not.


-Sacriyd

The Foreign Exchange feat Mushinah, House of Cards

"Gotta find my way home..." -Phontae

From My Eye(phone).

Chicago. July, 2009.
Selina Carrera. And yours truely. Living life, golden.

Taraji P Henson Goes Nude for P.E.T.A

Taraji P. Henson has no problem going naked - for a cause.
The actress is the latest celebrity to pose nude for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign.
In the ad, the 40-year-actress is pictured from the side without any clothes but with her left arm blocking most of her breasts and her legs crossed to keep her private parts, well, private.
Clearly visible: Henson's vine tattoo that appears to go all the way around her waist.
The ad notes that "animals killed for their fur are electrocuted, drowned, beaten, and often skinned alive."
"Be comfortable in your own skin," it reads, "and let animals keeps theirs."
Henson was inspired to join the campaign after viewing "I Am an Animal," a documentary about fur farms and the skinning process.
"Before I saw that documentary, I would wear fur," she said. "But I saw this documentary, and I was riveted. I cried."
"I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story," Henson added. "You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that."


http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/01/28/2011-01-28_taraji_p_henson_poses_nude_for_petas_id_rather_go_naked_than_wear_fur_campaign.html

Gems.

Every inch of this land is ground zero to someone.


-Tim Wise

Wiz Khalifa- Up

"Everytime I try to leave, I'm right back again...." -Wiz

Gems.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful. Because we have had to love in order to live. Love has been our survival.


-Audre Lorde

alaskaLand; a film by Chinonye Chukwu

A good friend of mine, a true Queen, Chinonye Chukwu is making a film and has an
OPEN CASTING CALL!

Where’s the Fire? Filmworks is casting feature film, entitled “alaskaLand”, a story about a young, Nigerian-American male that must figure out how to navigate between these competing identities in his hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska.
WHEN: FEBRUARY 12TH, 2011
... 11 AM – 4:30 PM
WHERE: THE SOURCE THEATER
1835 14th street NW, Washington DC
PLEASE BRING: Headshot(s), Resume and ONE Prepared 1-2 minute monologue

Haiku for Eugene Redmond, by Sonia Sanchez (1 of 4)

You have taken down
the morning turned it into
a roar of blackness


-Sonia Sanchez (4 haikus for Eugene Redmond)

Bilal, All for Love

Maybe it's,
I am a seeker
in search of a dreamer.
And
she dreams.
She dreams.
She lays her head down and dreams.
Or maybe it's me this time.
But baby, let's live...
-Bilal