— “just in case you change your mind” from boy! what a girl!, 1947. 🎞️🌹 this was one of the films in old hollywood with prominence of a black cast. it succeeded in celebrating our cultural roots & communal spirits plus having a pure, undiluted celebrations of black style.
Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.
esta tía se ha puesto a cantar OPERA en ALEMÁN mezclado con español e inglés con una orquesta y unos visuals que parece una película no hay ni un solo artista en el panorama nacional ni internacional que esté haciendo lo que está haciendo ella qué locura
“Dreams & reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.”
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free.”
RIP Assata Shakur
This is what you gave up when you chose minimalism. You gave up drama. You gave up spirit. You gave up whimsy. And you plastered all of it flat with beige
Photos by Hiroshi Hamaya taken of disappearing rural traditions in the cold Niigata prefecture, 1940-1945. Which later appeared in his 1956 book “Snow Land.”
Scanned by me.