Everyday I’m more convinced that the only metric of success that matters is the love you get from the people you love. Everything else is a distraction.
YUP. Its easy for people to feel like they’re “curious” these days because of how algorithms & trending discussions can introduce you to new things
But actually going out of your way to dive into things that aren’t in your niche or aren’t trending is a more genuine curiosity imo
Hip-Hop artist Sister Souljah schools Brother Cornel West about the condition of the Black community during a panel discussion about race relations on Donahue (1992).
"Thank you for bringing awareness to how important connection is with the written word and literature is.” My newest @TheAthleticNBA on the 'Read Like Wemby' campaign at San Antonio Central library https://t.co/V55QawpaSz free and unlocked to read:
Crestwood Middle School teacher Michael Powers doesn’t just impact his students in the classroom. They also feel his impact on the field. https://t.co/RJv1xJm0XG
So tired of adults degrading children for being illiterate. All this talk about how kids dnt read, calling them out their names, yet no one has started a reading initiative in their circle or community. You dnt have to wait for Pizza Hut, you can create an incentive program.
I wrote a plea. Black women are being killed by Black men at alarming, epidemic rates.
We have to stop this. Us. Black men. We have to.
https://t.co/gPNz4waWs2
the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.
I think the bigger issue is that we have a larger imagination for violence than we do care. Which is not to say revolutions don’t require violence. They do. But they require even MORE love and work and struggle and patience and THAT is where we lost people.