Maksemo

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A reminder that God is always good.

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“There is a great captive Negro population here, which is well publicized but not well known. And what is not publicized, and what is not known at all, is that there is a great captive white population here too. No one has pointed out yet with any force that if I am not a man here, you are not a man here. You cannot lynch me and keep me in ghettos without becoming something monstrous yourselves. And furthermore, you give me a terrifying advantage. You give me this advantage: that whereas you have never had to look at me, because you’ve sealed me away along with sin and hell and death and all the other things you didn’t want to look at, including love, my life was in your hands, and I had to look at you. I know more about you, therefore, than you know about me. I’ve had to spend my life, after all—and all the other Negroes in the country have had to spend their lives—outwitting and watching white people. I had to know what you were doing before you did it. People talk about the new Negro, but he’s been coming for three hundred years. The country thinks he’s new because they’ve never had to look at him before. And they are looking at him now, not because there’s been a change of heart, but only because they must.” — James Baldwin; “From Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to Twelve — A Forum”

This is cute.

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It’s

Idk why I wasn’t paying attention; but THE AMERICANS?!??!

Straight HEAT 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Matthew Rhys?!

@thetrudz.photo you seen?

‘A sense of self and self-worth’: Deborah Willis on the importance of Black photography The artist and curator of photography talks about her relationship to the work of Black pioneers of photography and the influence of her 2000 book

“…she continues her mission by not portraying beauty as a performance, but by illuminating the quiet everyday moments of Black life that are full of hope, struggle, resilience and joy.”

A new edition of Deborah Willis’ book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers is coming out soon.

Worth the rewatch. Speaks to what you are saying.

The irony of Michael Clayton being a movie exposing the duplicity and manipulation of how corps ruin us all and Andor being everything it is while getting ignored yet praised.

Every time I watch Michael Clayton, I am reminded deeply of what makes Andor so MotherFucking Good.

Finally! Finally something for Andor! For writing? Absolutely. #Emmys

Ill die on this hill, Jurassic Park 2: Lost World is underrated. It’s also the best sequel out of all the movies.

Its low key my favorite out of all of them.

#blueskymovies

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THESE NIGGAS ARE rapping RAPPING!!!

@thetrudz.photo

Complete Silence:

Me: Yeehaw we outside Woadie bout to kill em off!

Rico Nasty so talented and fine its crazy.

2 months feeling like decades.

To clarify; at this orange fools speech.

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Me rn

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Yall gotta understand….. THIS MOVIE HEALED ME.

Distractions from stronger, tougher and advancing conversations we as a community need to be having in literature.

But, maybe i just dont get it 🤷🏾‍♂️

Ill go where the tougher convos are.

Exactly; don’t try and break down, do the work for and ultimately inevitably speak into a void to folks who on a regular basis are intentionally intellectually dishonest.

Black Girl and Burn this book, dont need hand holding for white folks to understand us.

Its walking backwards blindfolded.

DNA a place holder for anything artistically Black imo.

A Black person explaining DNA by Kendrick to a white person seems like a double negative. Or, like a revelation of how in fact that individual has all that sucker shit inside their DNA.

Me patiently waiting on greatness.

Id be acting like Michael Scott when he took Jan to Sandals for their baecation. Good lord.

Bury me loose.

Oh, inject this into my veins.

Asap.