and don’t just do it today…do it everyday.
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Today I had 250 Grains and a Vocab level of 36
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The rumors of the man’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
All you young folk who yearn for an album representative of Jay-Z’s skills…
All you folk who yearn for a Reasonable Doubt/Blueprint caliber project…
Your time is hear.
This here…THIS RIGHT HERE???? Classic.
Granted that most of the subtlety and nuance will fly over the heads of HipHoppers like the Blue Angels…but this is the album I always knew Jay was capable of.
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No amount of bootlegging will keep me from this movie.
One of the really difficult things about being Black is how conflicted we can be when it comes to our “heroes” and our role models.
It is plain that Frank Lucas is portrayed as a hero on some levels. As difficult as that is to digest, it is a fact and cannot be ignored.
What will probably ensue will be the inevitable backlash from those who will insist that Frank Lucas represents the “wrong” kind of hero for Black people. And they will be right.
There will be those who herald Lucas for being a gentleman gangster. And they will be right as well.
I don’t have a problem with stories like that. The problem is the lack of more virtuous stories. THAT is what I am looking forward to. Not fewer Frank Lucases, but more Dorie Millers and Benjamin Carsons.
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Freedom is a road seldom travelled by the multitude. -Fredrick Douglass
I am a pen with no hand attached.
A series of quotes with no attribution.
Once upon a time I ran the web with my identity in full bloom. Anyone who wanted to know about me knew all about me. I blogged and blogged to my hearts content. I talked about my family, about my friends, where I come from, where I live currently. I thought I was free. I viewed transparency as freedom.
But that would make Frederick Douglass a liar.
Freedom is speaking your heart without fear. I look back on the 25,000 words that I wrote over the past 22 months and I saw the editing. I saw a man who chose his words carefully.
I emerge from my cocoon protected by a thin veil of anonymity.
That is more for those around me than for me.
I emerge from my cocoon matured in the need and purpose of my position.
I am unafraid.
I am unencumbered.
I am free.
Today is not the first day of the rest of my life.
TODAY is the first day of my LIFE
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