Your heart is not a state secret. You are meant to declare allegiances. You are meant to have favourites. Write the letter. Miss the train. Stay up until dawn talking. You should be caught red-handed loving something, someone.
Plies dropped a verse on Spend Dat. He said “I ain’t buying a bitch a purse, that’s lil boy shit. I’ma send ya kids to college, I do raw shit.”
That’s the Plies I remember.
not all of it ages well, but Janelle gave us a world centered around a black butch sapphic bisexual non-human lady fighting for liberation over SEVERAL projects during Bush & Obama eras, a decade b4 afrofuturism & surrealism was mainstream again, happy #pride
“They calling me the intellect amongst the pussy rap. I’m still popping pussy, them my sisters. So I can't agree with that.”
CLOCK IT!! & I love how you don’t allow these misogynoiristic ass men try to separate you from other Black women via dichotomies rooted in misogynoir & slut shaming.
Thank you for staying true to yourself! They wasn’t here for “Spooky Coochie”!
“English is a wonderful mercantile language. You can get a lot of trade done with English. But you would find it very difficult to validate the psychic and spiritual existence of your life.”
Toni Cade Bambara
all this technology, all these ways to communicate, and people have just… ceased actually communicating lmao. We on our phones all the time, and yet the skill, the rigor, the heart to say what you feel is being lost