— Kanye West Stands Alone : The Record : NPR (via syreetamcfadden)
This heya is the TROOF :
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— Kanye West Stands Alone : The Record : NPR (via syreetamcfadden)
This heya is the TROOF :
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— Eboni Hogan, “Lucky,” published in Union Station (via nps2013)
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…a unique documentary that is also kind of a reenactment…”We use the power of storytelling and the leverage of strategic partnerships to deliver a single message: educating girls in developing nations will change the world.”
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Proposition 8 defenders have gender anxiety - Salon.com
“To paraphrase, heterosexual single parents are allegedly terrible for society, so gay people can’t get married. Why can’t everyone just stay in their place?” <——that was a glaring point in my read from oral arguments yesterday’s hearing.
(via syreetamcfadden)I mean let’s really talk about it!
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“Manuel Torre, great artist of the Andalusian people, once told a singer, “You have a voice, you know the styles, but you will never triumph, because you have no duende.”
All over Andalusia, from the rock of Jaen to the whorled shell of Cadiz, the people speak constantly of “duende,” and identify it accurately and instinctively whenever it appears…Manuel Torre, who had more culture in the blood than any man I ever met, pronounced this splendid sentence on hearing Falla play his own Nocturno del generalife: “All that has black sounds has duende.” And there is no greater truth.
These “black sounds” are the mystery, the roots fastened in the mire that we all know and all ignore, the fertile silt that gives us the very substance of art.”
-Federico Garcia Lorca, “In Search of Duende”
@rogerbonair duende.
I want this hair color.
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Omg this woman. Lawd. #awesomesauce
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Sarah Vaughan in her dressing room in Chicago, 1948. I wonder which fragrance she was using? Photo: Ted Williams.
Love.
I’ve thought alot about how overt, how loud and proud I am as a straight person in my support of gay rights. I read an article today where the writer’s thinking was essentially the “i was bullied as a kid too” perspective which is valid, it’s his experience. But I think it’s so important for all of us to come to a support of gay rights, women’s rights, the rights of people of color, the rights of immigrants with the clear understanding that what we are talking about is essential humanity. We are talking about the right of the human being beside you at the supermarket checkout or waiving your thru on that off ramp merge or filing your taxes or healing your child. They do not stop and start for a court or a proposition or your pastor’s Sunday oratory. They do not stop being a human being for your ‘faith’ or for your peer pressure.
Even if I was a cool kid (I was a very cool kid in my head, I didn’t give a rat’s ass what anyone thought or did but I was also elementally dorky and also really frickin sarcastic and probably a little bit of an intellectual bully *wow stuff has changed soooo much!*) in high school. The truth is that I was raised in a middle(ish) class West Indian environment with a heavy Roman Catholic influence on my values. That means that some how I missed the whole ‘judge not lest you be judged’ part and the ‘love one another’ part in favor of some old testament ish that let me think I could play God with other people’s lives. I mean let’s be clear that this is what we’re doing. We are assuming that we know the minds of the gods we pretend to and then we are attempting to act on their behalf. We can’t get more wrong than that if we can’t manage to follow their basic mandates to judge not and to just plain old Love.
So I’m passionately in favor of gay marriage because I am a person, a human first, not a recovering Catholic or a gender/sexuality definition, and because some of the most human people I’ve met, some of the most humane people I’ve met are gay. They are my dear friends. They are my colleagues. They are my fellow artists. They’ve had my back. They’ve fallen in love with phenomenal people. They’ve fallen in love with shits. They’ve fallen in love with people who love them back no matter what and I can’t imagine anything better than what my parents have or what my sister has or what my brothers have in the love of someone what has you no matter what and I want that for everyone I know, not just the ones who dig the attraction of the opposite.
I support gay marriage because I (despite my personal reservations regarding the institution) really love the idea of people who find partners that they trust and commit to and wish to dedicate their lives to and people that they want to make and raise babies with and people they want to fight with in the supermarket and people they want to care for in the hospital and people they want to visit when they’re dead just to talk about their day. I can get behind that. I can put my whole heart behind love that’s so good you gotta put a bunch of paperwork on it and jump a broom and smash a glass and do a little dance in celebration of it, no matter how your love is formed. (I didn’t plan to say this much at all but there you have it.)
“Speaking is difficult but I need to say something.
Gun violence is a big problem.
Too many people are dying.
Too many children.
We must do something.
It will be hard.
But the time is now.
You must act.
Be bold. Be courageous.
Americans are counting on you.”
—Gabby Giffords at a Senate hearing on gun violence today
So this morning, posted a short thing about Marriott supporting Prop 8 in California.
I did some further research today (prompted by a very polite and thoughtful e-mail from a reader), and discovered that I was wrong. It’s very important to me to correct the record. Here’s Bill Marriott from his…
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15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was fatally shot yesterday at a Chicago park about a week after she attended President Barack Obama’s inauguration and performed at inaugural events with her high school’s band and drill team, the Chicago Tribune reports.
A 16-year-old boy with Pendleton in the park was wounded in the attack and remained in serious condition Tuesday night.