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Samantha Cole is a powerful woman with a voice

“I confess I chanced upon a photo gallery of her in a bathing suit. Next thing I am asking the most logical question: who is she? Now, I know. She is a singer, a powerful singer who can hold, and dissect a melody. What a gift to the world.” - Gregory E. Woods

LOVERS ON TRAIN TRACK kissing






“Days like this have been rendered invisible by perceptions. They can be found and created. The railroads tracks are fenced in with barbed wire, and these times have introduced a weird kind of apprehension in people's bodies, and new technologies have created an even stranger sense of isolation between women and men who could connect on the soul level if they weren't sensuously impaired by their phones, and gadgets. I see it often; people whose energies match but the people’s senses are dulled and diverted from the vital elements of living and miss the potential friend, business partner, idea person, lover, spouse and confidant. The disconnection dampens the fires of creative living expressed in this photograph.” – Gregory E. Woods

George Washington Carver

SOCIAL ACTIVISM

“Black people are their problem, but I see no merit in waiting for a Messiah to lead us and resolve our problems. That was a solution in times past; say thousands of years ago when the collective consciousness of tribes and nations in divers parts of the world needed that elevation to ascend to the next level of Being. The Messiah approach is lazy, irresponsible, and dangerous. In the most fundamental of relationships — husband and wife— marital problems are never resolved by the coming of a Messiah. Waiting for one to fix a marital problem is tantamount to waiting for the marriage to bitterly dissolve!” – Gregory E. Woods

Native American woman Mary Snavely holding baby

“I am aware of this history. It lives in my bones, but Americans who love sports no matter their education level intellectually reject this type of history. The cults of personality, and entitlement hold precedence over what is right and wrong in the degradation of the Red Nations.


In 2009 on the 9th of August Supreme Court Justice Scalia said it best. Going to the heart of why American sports fans don’t discuss the issue, or pay attention to Native American issues, or volunteer to change the name of the Washington football team he said, “United States policy is revolved around conquest… So, Indian nations are conquered nations, and the treaties have been upheld.”


In general, Americans are governed by this belief. It is always expressed in its dismissiveness in our world relations, women’s issues, the wars we engage in and the dictators we prop up on the world stage…” – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

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 WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM