Got royalty inside my DNA
Uptown Baby! NY
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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“Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.”
— Zora Neale Hurston, born January 7, 1891
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"At @GhettoGastro, we don't run from the word 'ghetto,' and we don't run from the ghetto. Because at the end of the day, Ghetto Gastro is about showing you what we already know: the hood is good."
Watch Jon Gray's full TED Talk here: t.ted.com/x5MZvHt
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first words Sonya Massey said at her front door were “don’t hurt me”
she was told “why would we hurt you, you called us”
when have those words meant anything when your black and woman in this country
when do those words protect you from not being murdered in your kitchen, in your bedroom, with your babies, or on your lawn
what is “reassurance”, in this place ?
rest in power Sonya Massey, and an abundance of love and power to Sonya’s family on this journey
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Toni Morrison said, “I read and read and read until I was 39, and then there was a book I wanted to read and I couldn’t find it, so I wrote it. In order to read it…you know, I’m really not sure there’s any ‘right’ age to start writing.” There’s not. If you wanna write, start.
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This week’s cover, “Sonny’s Bridge, 1986,” by the late artist Faith Ringgold. #NewYorkerCovers
ALT The cover of the May 6, 2024, issue of The New Yorker, by Faith Ringgold.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor! - Audre Lorde
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Jony Ive on what Steve Jobs taught him about focus:
“This sounds really simplistic but it still shocks me how few people actually practice this.
It’s a struggle to practice this.
Steve was the most remarkably focused person I ever met in my life.
Focus is not something you aspire to.
You don’t decide on Monday “I’m going to be focused.”
It’s an every minute “Why are we talking about that?”
*This* is what we are working on.
You can achieve so much when you truly focus.
One of the things Steve would say [to me] because he was worried I wasn’t focused — he would say how many things have you said no to?
I would tell him I said no to this. And I said no to that.
But he knew I wasn’t interested in doing those things.
There was no *sacrifice* in saying no.
What focus means is saying no to something that with every bone in your body you think is a phenomenal idea, you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you are focusing on something else.”
You can achieve so much when you truly focus.
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Look.. I choose peace but , say...
Don't walk up on me wrong..
This Tea and Incense can turn into
Colt 45 and Newports if NEED be.. OK?
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#OnThisDay in 1924, James Baldwin was born in Harlem, NY. He'd later become one of America's greatest literary voices. Baldwin's work interrogated themes of racial and sexual oppression in America and is regarded as one of the foremost intellectual thinkers of the 20th century.
ALT A black and white photo of James Baldwin stepping out from a darkened doorway. Above the doorway is the railing of a Juliet balcony.
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Starting today, you can pick up Ghetto Gastro's new food goods at Target. f-st.co/M5sfoPc
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This film is “a portrait of Detroit, of its abandoned neighborhoods and the canals affected by the climate crisis that are reclaiming the blocks I biked as a child,” says @dreamhampton. nyti.ms/3QbDULO
