"Being black is a creative act. You have to create your world every single day because the world wasn't built for you. That makes us the ultimate architects."- Andre 3000.
One thing they don't tell you about the “push a button for a million dollars but someone you don't know dıės” hypothetical is that literally every billionaire is effectively pressing that button as much as they can all the time just because that's how exploitation works
this why you gotta read bc james baldwin said, “to be a negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in rage almost all time”. and it’s reigned true for me bc to be aware of reality and how society can be structured against you…. man…
The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
In the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry.
That's why we're opening five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, starting with The Bronx.
Lower Prices. Good food. Publicly owned.
Hunts Point next year. Every borough by 2029.
to every artist/person out there, your life & career will hardly ever just be vertical, and the purpose of art goes beyond charts, sales, analytics, algorithms. this shit has its natural & unnatural ups & downs, but the best thing you can do is create things that are honest, so that you never look back & have regrets. everyday you’re breathing you get an opportunity to reintroduce yourself & put something meaningful out into the world. do the work. have fun doing it. everything else is a bonus.
also there were no white people in Is God Is. do you know how CRAZY it is for a Black Woman to make her directorial debut AND simultaneously make her film FULLY Black?? on the BIG SCREEN. she didn’t have to add any sympathy whites y’all!!!
i know when waka flocka said “i fucked my money up (DAMN!!) now i can’t re-up” he was talking about drugs, but he didn’t know how relatable it’d to somebody with a bi-weekly paycheck who just spent their last on some bullshit