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I am so sick of and annoyed with this hollow triumph. The myopic approach to health, and pollution is pitiful. Pollution is a complex problem and because Americans think simply simple minded attitudes become solutions and are passed off as successful approaches. The movement to remove smoking from restaurants and office buildings was a good one. Now, it is just a mean movement. It is mean and myopic more than anything else. As long as Americans focus on the fly on the wall they think the bug problem in their house is dealt with. - Gregory E. Woods, 2.8.14
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In spite of Jim Crow
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| 1. Fisk University Graduates including W.E.B. Dubois (right), 1888 |
III.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a favorite character actor of mine. I didn't realize how famous he was until he died, so deep I was into the films he worked in.
Heroin? That is a helluva a drug. I remember the way it ripped through the Black community in the 1940's and '50's. Amongst musicians and hip cats in the community heroin ran around playing with lives. I remember how opium took comfort among white Americans in the last of the 19th century. I remember how and when the British started a drug trade in China where, and how the Americans started the opium trade in the virgin soil of Afghanistan. I remember how guns and drugs entered into southern California at the end of the Black Panther's movement was killed off by the government.
And after this actor, whose craftsmanship I admired, dies of an overdose there is a call to hunt down his dealer? Is that a call exclusive for famous white men? Because that doesn't happen in communities around the country. You die of an overdose and the police don't give a damn who sold it to you. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.8.14
IV.
Because of Jim Crow
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| 2. Class from Roger Williams University in Nashville - 1899 |
V.
During Jim Crow
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| 3. Howard Univ. graduating class c. 1900
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VI.
Black Women's vs. White women's sensibilities
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| singer Tracy Chapman today |
"It was quiet to you maybe but that’s because you didn't live in our area,” she answers with a throaty laugh. She has written about the relationship in her journals, which she plans to publish one day. So why did they decide against using their relationship to make a big social impact like other celebrity lesbian couples, such as Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, have in the past? The idea seems to amuse her. “I would never do that. My life is not to be somebody else’s impact - you know what I mean? And it was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was not anybody’s business but ours.”
Alice Walker talks about her relationships (not always with men, not always a Black partner either) in some of her writing though, not always naming names. I didn't find her queerness to be a surprise because I studied her work. She even mentions women loving each other sexually or non-sexually in her definition of womanism. So queerness was included, in that aspect. I find the way she writes about the complexities of love and sexuality for Black women to be really important; some of the first stuff I read on the topic in my entire life. Started in adolescence. And Tracy Chapman is just everything! ~ Lioness Daiba Sala 2.7.14
"I have and have had deep feelings for Alice Walker a long time now. Her composure, intellect, beauty, the movement of her hands, daring, her writing skills and the steadiness of her eye, and voice drew me simultaneously into a study of her work and reflections of my own about various topics." - Gregory E. Woods
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| Tracy Chapman |
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| Alice Walker, writer/scholar |
VII.
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| Maya Angelou as a young woman |
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” — Maya Angelou
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| Maya Angelou |
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