Bob Marley

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“One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain”

Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I, From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong, By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation, Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing, This songs of freedom
'Cause all I ever have: Redemption songs; Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets, While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it: We've got to fullfil the book.

Won't you help to sing, This songs of freedom-
'Cause all I ever have: Redemption songs;
Redemption songs; Redemption songs.

All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
What a beautiful man, beautiful message, beautiful voice. My love for him runs deep, so I'll have to keep this post short. Wink.

Inspire to Aspire

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Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path to begin the trail.

-Ashanti proverb

Calling Out To The Brave Gods

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Lady, lady, lady SPOKE.

MUSE

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I am a habitual list-maker (and planner), lover of the word projects- not to be confused with neighborhood

dwellings, silence that an empty space provides and also the type that music, at its best, can do the same for
my soul. I've been a creative muse for many, without ever trying, and now I accept the title with a greater purpose

and new perspective.

The Muse Concept identifies my relationship to the creative arts, enlisting a host of business tools
to conceptualize each of my artistic goals, and most importantly, building a brand the represents this
collective effectively. My future posts will highlight my progress and information/new that I find
relevant.

The Muse Mix

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Click here

 Dwele-Spiritual ▲ Outkast- She Lives In My Lap ▲Jose James- Velvet

 Guy-Piece of my love ▲ Camp Lo-Coolie High ▲ Scar- What is this?

 D'Angelo- Brown Sugar (remix) ▲ Dwele- Kick out of you ▲ Slum Village-Fall in love

 Flying Lotus-SexSlaveShip ▲ Kelis-Glow ▲ Bob Marley-Stir it up

 Blackalicious-Make you feel that way ▲ Bilal-Love it ▲ Lupe Fiasco- Paris Tokyo

 Sleepy Brown-Sunday Morning ▲ Michael Jackson- I can't help it ▲ Talib Kweli- Won't you stay

I am a poet.

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"They say that I am a poet
I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle
emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on
distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for
that matter as to whether I ever get my point across
or my love."

Saul Williams

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(Source)

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.

Ka 'Ba

A closed window looks down
on a dirty courtyard, and black people
call across or scream or walk across
defying physics in the stream of their will

Our world is full of sound
Our world is more lovely than anyone's
tho we suffer, and kill each other
and sometimes fail to walk the air

We are beautiful people
with african imaginations
full of masks and dances and swelling chants

with african eyes, and noses, and arms,
though we sprawl in grey chains in a place
full of winters, when what we want is sun.

We have been captured,
brothers. And we labor
to make our getaway, into
the ancient image, into a new

correspondence with ourselves
and our black family. We read magic
now we need the spells, to rise up
return, destroy, and create. What will be

the sacred words?

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Dream Alive.

(retrieved from tumblr)

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand

- Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpt from A Dream Within A Dream 

...Selah Sue

This is Selah Sue, born Sanne Putseys, Belgian musician and songwriter.

Before I go further, I'd like you to know that it would be very, very uncool of you not to check out her work.

Now, moving on...

I first heard on Cee Lo's The Lady Killer, where she did a duet on the song Please. If I had a first crack at what ethnicity or even nationality she was, I would haver never, ever, ever, ever, guessed Belgian. Nevertheless, I dig her sound...it reminds me somewhat of Nneka.

Because I had to...

This video has been floating around the web for awhile and while I'm sure you've seen it, I decided to post it here so it could be permanently cemented in my domain.

Handmade Journals

Soooo cute.

Courtesy of Inmostlight via Flickr

Inspired.

The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. They’re finding out who rides bicycles, why they ride bicycles, if and why they love their bicycles, and of course why so few South Africans choose bicycles as a transport option.

"Myself, Stan Engelbrecht and a good friend and fellow bicycle enthusiast, Nic Grobler recently started a project investigating South African bicycle culture, and the lack of cyclist commuters out there on our roads. We are currently raising funds to turn this project into a self-published full-color hard-cover photographic book ( similar to a previous book I've done, African Salad - www.dayonepublications.com ). We are shooting the entire project from our own bicycles while traveling around the country - we are meeting everyday South Africans out there while they use their bicycles."

As you'll see we are not photographing people who ride purely for exercise or recreation, but instead we are focussing on those who use bicycles as an integral tool in their day-to-day existence. We've noticed that in South Africa, especially in the major centers, very few people use bicycles as mode of transport. This is very strange since we have no proper public transport infrastructure, and that which does exist is expensive and unsafe.

Inspired.

 I was browsing StyleLikeU.com and came across an amazing feature & closet of Kimberly Sumner, an artist that currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. This video is so inspiring, especially for someone like me...being that I've never been to NY & at 27, I am just starting to turn my dreams into reality. Her style is so care free and she shares my love for COLOR & BOLD jewelry. Love it. 

"There is a point of acknowledging and realizing that you are trying to assimilate and be something you will never be... What's wrong with being yourself?"

-Kimberly Sumner 

 Check out her feature by clicking here. All photos above are copyrighted by StyleLikeU.com. 

Dear Spring, please visit me soon.

Piera Gelardi

I've never been a fan of Mr. Winter...he is so cold & stuffy. I'd much rather hang with the sunshine & rain. 

Top of the morning, to you...beautiful.

Photo by Steffilyn via Flickr

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. "

— Maya Angelou

Inspired.

Reblogged from my tumblr

"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary."

-Erykah Badu

To know your gift, the calling the Most High as for you, is an experience like no other. When you are inspired, you must share & be an inspiration to another. E. Badu has been an inspiration to me from the jump...I dig her style & her courage...and of course, the music.

“I look at some other videos. I’m not naming names, because I don’t want that to be mentioned. There is the thing with sexuality. I’m naked for 13 seconds, and these people are naked the whole time and gyrating and saying come “lick on my lollipop,” and “suck on my cinnamon roll,” and, you know, suggesting sex. People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption. Could be ‘cause I did it in public too. Do you think people would have been complaining if I had on high-heel shoes?”

Favorite song: Other side of the game (love the video too)

Peace & light.

Inspired.

Velvet: 

Take of my hand, drink of my mind

taste of my spirit, become divine

come into me, into the place

where I am dreaming of your embrace.

To me.

Come to me.

To me.

Come to me.

Whisper my name, call me your all

follow the sound, of my heart beating

when you have come, feel your caress

the taste of your lips, do you remember

love?

Do you

Remember love?

Remember.

... 

José James 

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A quote for you...

"Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them."

A Room With A View, E.M. Forster

Things to pull out of myself (tonight):
1) The irritating urge to organize
2) Confusion, exaggeration of that confusion, maybe creating something beautiful out of this perceived confusion.
3) Reflections of myself, within things that adorn the body (vague, I know...it is a secret)
4) Fear. To acknowledge it is to move forward and moving forward is sweet progress.

Today, I found out that I could walk away from you and even though I may look back at past moments shared, I'll never be fond of you in the same way, ever. I also found hope in the little steps I've taken to express myself through art. Therapeutic.