What Negroes suffer from...

Well said, but the children of ex-slaves will typically fight that notion. So, deep is the commitment to be aligned with whites, and to be called and defined as niggers; Africa fled over the centuries from the identity of Black folks in America!. . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/27/17 

Identity crisis of

The cost

Gospel singer, Tina Campbell, made a smug statement supporting Donald Trump for President during his bid for the office in 2016. Tina Campbell, of the powerful gospel dual, Mary Mary, nearly a year since Trump has been in office is feeling the consequence of her support for Trump, from her fans. She felt it clearly admitting: "...overall ticket sales haven’t shown that we have the support that we need to continue the tour at this time"

Since Mary Mary member and gospel singer Tina Campbell revealed her vote for former reality television star Donald Trump, disappointment has washed over her devout fan base because she ignored her people's history, and scorned their deep knowledge of white men! Despite Tina’s adamant defense and explanation for her political decision, fans did not buy it. In one movement she isolated herself from her people's collective history.

She should have kept her mouth shut and she should have studied what she really believed instead of insisting upon being the version of Christianity that is the source of Black people's tragedies. This raging conflict with so many Colored folks, like her, is the lie that supports the myth that some white guy, who looks like the white Jesus, will save 'us'. That little thing called 'studying to show one's self approved...' has to be intelligent counsel. Voting against one's own interest is the unstudied way of being both loyal to the perceptions of white people, and being a 'good Christian' making a stand to make white people feel good about themselves. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/31/17 

Donald Trump, our president, as he presents himself. 

Vote Negro, Vote Trump!

Tina Campbell Voted For Trump Because Of His Views On Christianity

This woman, Tina Campbell's vote for Trump and men like him is based on an error of thought in belief, not about Jesus alone, but about the need in the relationship with whites to be sensed as a good person; meaning a good Negro. It is a paradigm important to the Black Church. It kept people alive, and kept children safe as long as white's with their propensity to kill could be assuaged not to! I might sound fickle, but over the decades it was important to understand why Black congregations engaged in a thinking, as above described...

Until Colored folks examine and unlearn their soul's belief structure we will continue the American tradition of voting against one's best interest because of race, and in the case of Black folks: fear. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/2/17 

 

Critique of US!

African American In Africa 

The below screenshot is a post I wrote on my personal Facebook page Monday evening after being around a lot of inflated ego amped up NYPD officers all day on the fourth.

One white male officer got snippy with me (as I wore my one year son in my baby carrier) as he asked for my ID to prove I lived in my father's building which is on a Manhattan street that was closed off for July 4th fireworks. I... know a white woman, especially one holding a baby, would never be spoken to in the condescending and quick to escalate tone this white officer spoke to me in. All I could say as my husband, son and I headed into my building was, "We need to get back to Namibia."

As my visit home nears a close and I return to Namibia next week, I really don't even know if encouraging you all to 'be safe' is appropriate or even feasible. And I genuinely don't want to mock those of you who have to remain in the States, but I wish you strength and a spirit of urgent mobilization.

RIP Alton Sterling (author unnamed) 

African American woman's reaction to the return to the States.

HOW WE ARE, HOW IT IS.

The 21st century look of Black Power.

The image is comical and sad. It is an easy joke waiting to be ceased by white humorists itching to draw attention between the contrast of what Black folks claim they want and how they act like. No longer the intellectual and aggressive threat to white people, or the system governing our lifestyle, books and analytical thought are replaced by intense concentration upon cell phones and the trivia pursuits of its worshippers. Black people come across as social buffoons, as black face comedians, throwbacks to Amos and Andy renditions of self and caricatures of who they really are! It is sad, laughable and how white folks maintain their sense of superiority over Colored folk because the resistance to them and 'it' is of no real force, or threat. It is just cute. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/12/17

His words are mirrors. They reflect back to us how Blacks are perceived by whites more often than not. He is telling a story we want to dismiss, don't wanna hear, evaluate honestly or deal with objectively, if that is possible. . .

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Jan. 12, 2017

Negroes & lies

Harriet Tubman about slaves said...

Tempting...

This was the lowest black votes since 2000!!

I'm am just so tired of the African American community, always complaining, ranting and raving, and continues to stand still. You allowed your feelings about missing the Obamas, Bernie over Hillary, voting for third party candidates, writing in candidates, and furthermore just not voting, to drop the ball this election season. Never ever say that your vote does not count when you saw how important even the smallest towns and counties vote counted last night. African Americans want to talk about this and that life matters, but refused to beat the odds of democrats winning back-to-back.

Learn to stop allowing Media-bias behavior and fear to continuously "ENSLAVE YOU"! I've been awake, I'd hope that you'd one day wake up too! -  Corey Hymes Jr.‎ Nov. 9, 2016 

A selfish definition, a sudden light meaning...

Light within ...

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."

- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man and Prison Writings

Light beam 

'Despite attempts to undo colonialism's effects on the black psyche, the colonial stigma against African religions seems to be hardest to shake off...


Indigenous religions were not only outlawed but literally demonized not just on the continent but across the entire black diaspora."

Verona Spence-Adofo

Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one's courage. - Anais Nin 

Black White People: a puzzle.

By necessity Negro men had to assert strength, elegance and poise to vie for the attention respect demands from whites, who did not value Black lives. It was white people's struggle to place equal value upon Black lives that played a role in Negroes' emphasis upon doing better, doing better than the dumbest white man, excelling despite and because of the odds.

A lot of maxims came out of the eras in association with white folks, Mr. Charlie, Ofay, Jim Crow. Established into the code of survival where did the notion of engineering distain for ourselves become the standard for a people who call themselves African Americans?

African American.

That is a helluva an indictment when you think about it. Black Americans have a deeply held contempt of Africa and their connections to the people and the continent. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/13/16

Negro man distinguished in his suit. circa early 1900's.

Colored man and wife in Cotton Plant, Arkansas.

Then on the other hand there were the Tuskegee Airmen.

COMBAT Missions

Total Missions - 12th Air Force 1,267 ...
Total Missions - 15th Air Force 311
Total Sorties - 12th Air Force 6,381
Total Sorties - 15th Air Force 9,152
Grand Total Missions 1,578
Grand Total Sorties 15,533
Total Number of Pilots Sent Overseas 450
Total Number of Pilots Graduating From Tuskegee 994
Total Pilots Killed In Action 66
Prisoners of War 32

COMBAT RECORD

Destroyed Damaged Total
Aircraft (aerial) 111 25 136
Aircraft (ground) 150 123 273
Barges and Boats 16 24 40
Boxcars, Other Rolling Stock 58 561 619
Buildings and Factories 0 23 23
Gun Emplacements 3 0 3
Destroyers 1 0 1
Horse Drawn Vehicles 15 100 115
Motor Transports 6 81 87
Power Transformers 3 2 5
Locomotives 57 69 126
Radar Installations 1 8 9
Tanks on Flat Cars 0 7 7
Oil and Ammunition Dumps 2 0 2

AWARDS

Legion of Merit 1
Silver Star 1
Soldier Medal 2
Purple Heart 8
Distinguished Flying Cross 95
Bronze Star 14
Air Medal and Clusters 744

http://www.earthlyissues.com/tuskegee.htm

Tuskegee Airmen, the flying officers.

TO THOSE NOT FREE!!

Black artist, Lois Mailou Jones was an artist who painted and influenced others during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond...

Black collegiate 

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a Negro story of freedom.

Curlers



Black woman in curlers in the city. circa late 1960's

Back then 'wild women' didn't care about wearing curlers in public. They were in defiance against those (in their words) 'uppity chicks'!


Colored women in the 1960's when this picture was probably taken were varied, but one common thing was dignity. Negro women of each social station cringed against the indignity of white folk's typical description of Colored folk and both men and women had standards of dress and carriage to ride against the tide of the day. Although, curlers were seen in public the most defiant woman was the one walking the streets in curlers. They wore their hurt different from other Colored women. Everyone hurt against Jim Crow and crackers' mentality. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (1.20.16)





Black woman from the 1970's resembles a cousin of mine.

 

AGAPE, SLAVERY & INTELLIGENCE

Cletona Williams-AlstonAgape
Sept. 26, 2013
"Dear God, the poster read, ""I remember how my life used to be before I met You. Thank you for finding me!"

 
ONE

This poster stops me from walking away from it. I don't have that sense of being found by God. It was a matter of where my focus was that earmarked the troubled times of my life, but it didn't render void the presence of the Creator. I always had the sense of that presence.

I walked a lot in my dark times, and spent a great deal of time alone and deep in forests. I guess those two factors were or are states of being far removed from being in a city where it is easy to feel disconnected from the vital energies of life in a culture that is compelled to explain God. But, one's state of conscious awareness is his/her story, and many people have to invent a science to perceive the Creator. Perception is a source of fascination and a study of human nature if one is interested in how to understand others. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.28.13

TWO

"The way to feel good is to do good. The way to feel successful is to take the actions that bring about success. You cannot truly feel what you do not being truly alive. Be honest and authentic with yourself, with others, and with Life because anything less is just cheating yourself. Spend this day being a unique and enthusiastic expression of life’s goodness. See how much of a positive difference you can make, and experience what a genuine, positive feeling you get from doing so. Seek to add richness to the lives of others and be delighted at how much richness it brings into your own life. Do something good and useful just because it is the right thing to do, and discover how right it feels. Let go of the tiresome fight to gain advantage, and direct your energy toward appreciating and creating goodness. Move beyond the need to prove yourself and focus instead on improving all of life. Give more and more of your own unique goodness to those around you, to the world, and to Life. And feel the outstanding richness as it grows increasingly abundant for you." - Adekola Kevin Odukoya 9.24.13


THREE


Rose Marie Samuels, I know and agree that "True peace is not the absence of war; it is the presence of God."

I would venture further and add that the presence of God is cloak-like because that presence is a constant the way air is constant and breath is consistent with the vibrations of the living. Well, peace is the presence of an awareness within of how the outside presence of Creation and the Creator lives within and through the consistencies and the inconsistencies of our lives. It is a weave. It is the way the land, the Earth, our Mother vibrates within us. It is the way the words of our mouth mingle with vital energies of Creation. It is a creative process. It is a dance. It is Spider Woman. It is the weaving motion of a web connecting all parts of Creation within the soul of the body we live in. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.28.13


FOUR


"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." Psalms 66:18

How true is that, or is it a misunderstanding of Hebrew? How could the Creator not hear his creation moaning under the weight of their wrong doings? If the ear of the Creator is dead to the 'bad heart' of someone there is no redemption. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9.28.13


FIVE

"First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ..." 1 Timothy 2:1-5


SIX


The direction found in Hebrews 13:17 "Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you..." has spoken to contradicted lives, and been the bane of existence for countless souls over the centuries. To this day it has been a manipulative tool in the hands of craftspeople skilled in selling war to the nation.

Easy it is to manipulate people's thinking and loyalties. It is easier when a person is not prone to study, or inclined towards introspective spirituality that challenges the notion of dominance and spreads out the tenets of one's faith on a white sheet of conscious awareness to 'see' what they actually believe, and is believable. This is the point in the craft of developing one's spirituality that stops many people from moving from belief to knowing.

During slavery times in the Americas this scripture subjugated millions of Africans forced into the Christian faith, and the millions of whites who benefited from slavery suffered as well. It did not work on people's indigenous to this land (Turtle Island) because Native peoples were connected to the land in all the ways the Euro-American was not connected within himself. Indians ran away and fought for the land where their ancestor's bones lay. Slavery and the legacy of the institution, and Western Christianity plays different roles in the mindset and the thinking of the grandchildren of ex-slaves and the generations of white Christians and non-Christians alike who benefit and suffer from slavery and its legacy.

Today's challenge is ethics and integrity. Many people in the work place wrestle with the implications of this scripture as it is applied to keeping their jobs, or doing things that will insure employment, but violates the tenets of their faith. Many a Christian in management has agonized around a company's tendencies to manipulate lives, and made decisions they justified by Hebrew 13:17 they knew to be wrong. In the judicial system and in the military industrial complex ethical conflicts many a Christian lay person wrestles with are between the crude nature of survival, and being a living testament of Jesus Christ. None of these challenges are easy, but leaving one's life to chance isn't either. - Gregory E. Woods, 9.28.13


SEVEN


There is an innocence about subjugating to authority that works for a child, and is cute. But, as adults we have spiritual responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to train and raise children. If subjugating their spirits, and limiting their freedom of spirit to teach them how to be powerless, and submissive to abusive leadership is a religious obligation that is foul. It is evil, and for a child terrifying transitioning from the magic they were born with into a victim, a subject of tyranny, if that is the government with authority over their lives.

Children come into the world with two things: innocence and the knowledge of who they are. This is their Sacred Dream. It is what many are taught to forget, or under value into extinction. That loss of self eventually can turn into soul loss and is the primary reason foreign nations are sending missionaries to work in the United States.

As Americans we live in enormous contradictions, and pulled away from our stances, and proclamations to the world as a global power it is clear what ails us. On another hand the experiences of Europeans stomping upon the 'New World' and killing millions of its inhabitants over the last few centuries has destroyed the promise of new life their God said would come their way should they follow his law. On the other side is the matter of subjugation which in the American lexicon is slavery, or bondage.

It is said that to understand freedom one needs to understand its denials. I don't know who told me that in my younger years, but that becomes an unexplored subject if Hebrews 13:17 is taken literally, or ignorantly.

- Gregory E. Woods 9.28.13


EIGHT

My litmus test to authority is not in my submission to authority because it is over me. My obedience is not blind. I respect and listen closely to the power of my relationship with my own death, the power of my Medicine, what the Creator has imbued me with, and what I know about how power(s) move and shift. My tribal lineage does not have the energy of the lamb. My power animal (and we are all born with one) is not weak. The lamb was foreign to the concept of adulthood and manhood of my People, and deep within my nature I am incapable and unwilling to shape shift my life force into the energy lines of the sheep. It is a fundamental condition, or state of being I was born with and into!

I wrestled against the notion of accepting the symbol of the lamb into me when I was a young man. With my parents as the backdrop of my intellectual and spiritual development it was a ludicrous notion and failed. The text of masculinity and femininity with a lamb's nature does not coincide with the wisdom of being a dominant force of Nature, a parent, a man in the deepest sense of the word, or a warrior. It is not how families are formed or held together. It is a survival skill under monarchies, and for a slave, but a free man? It most certainly was not part of the makeup of Jesus, or any of the patriarchs, or the judges of the ancient Hebrew people. Why, as a man, should I submit to the lamb as a model, teach it to my children, and blindly submit to a governing force that does not have the interests of the People in their heart?

We all saw how that worked out for us as a nation a few of days after 9/11 as our Congress forsook reasonable and intellectual discourse and submitted to the authority of a President, who a few days prior,  was subjected to severe ridicule because of his lack of intellectual, and diplomatic sophistication, and his profound naivety, and his open disdain of the acquisition of knowledge for knowledge's sake. Many Christians justified it with the submissive scripture of Hebrews 13:17 in mind. - Gregory E. Woods



MJ Lindo's Art




titled: "Unyieldingly Sacred" by MJ Lindo

 

"Profound simplicity within a simple story told and upon reflection revealed in a complex way easily understood is the essence of what is sacred." 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of the Sacred Medicine Wheels

9.28.13

FEAR of self

James Bell, Founder and Executive Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity shed obvious light on a subject, a reality held tight in the embrace of what is wrong with the U.S. and said, “Part of your responsibility as a teenager is to be rebellions and stupid. In groups. That’s normal human behavior. But the only people who mess up as kids who are criminalized are people of color. White children get the pass. Black children get locked up, white kids get diversion. Black kids get velcroed in, white kids get tefloned out”

I saw this very clearly in action when I was in law enforcement many years ago. It is still the same. It would change if whites were not protecting privilege, place and power. It would change significantly if Black people thought offensively and detailed a spiritual path that leads not to misunderstandings of who they are, but comes from the framework of their authentic self.

 

An older man, a Black Federal police officer, told me in my twenties, "No one is free whose freedom was given to them!" Then he looked down and into my eyes as I do these days as an older man no longer a policeman talking to younger Black Americans caught in the net of white approval and the fears of being Black (whatever that is), and themselves. When people cannot fight for their own sanity will they fight for freedom and look at the next seven generations to see how they reflect into their bloodlines?

 

These are my words. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.26.15

 

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Chicken Bone Beach

Vintage African American Photography



Barbara Herbert, Mildred Smith and Joan Berry
on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Barbara Herbert, Mildred Smith and Joan Berry on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Herbert (Left), Smith (Center), and Berry (Right) posed on Chicken Bone Beach. Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beach area. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named "Chicken Bone Beach." Circa. 1940's










1950's bathing beauties on Chicken Bone beach. Mrs. Edith Green (l.) !!!!

Four African American women and a young boy posing on Chicken Bone Beach. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named “Chicken Bone Beach.” Circa. 1950s Photo Credit: The Temple University Urban Archives




The women on the left is Mrs. Edith Green. I believe Mrs. Green is still living and still looks fantastic. We attended the same church; St. Augustine of Atlantic City. I believe this is Missouri avenue Beach affectionately called by some the "Chickenbone Beach" - William Demones 9/2/15






1960's bathing beauties

I remember this era. Negro women wore elegance and any education they had close to their composure. It was a defense for the times. It controlled men's action and dictated behavior for younger women and let each woman live up to their family names. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/2/15

 

AFRICAN TALES: the price paid

tattooed babe in a chair was all he saw and the only words out her mouth devalued what could have been the gold of her soul. Without the tutelage of soul and spirit a boy would never see the woman if he was taught about sex through the practice of gang rape. It is a troubling kind of mentality that reeks within the bodies of many young Black and Hispanic men across the United States. It is an ingrained process in many neighborhoods. It isn't mentioned in polite and wealthy circles, or the upper, or middle class neighborhoods. It should because many of the better educated families are losing the mentality of their sons to this notion of women as objects; as pussy for the taking.

Oblivious to the touch of opulence, and arrogance is the history of a people who have struggled to reshape family as an African people. But the centuries have not been kind, or favorable, or had merciful understanding of what was created within the souls of Black People fighting for survival and dignity. For complex reasons the 21st century is playing out a frightening story in African-American communities and Native American and Hispanic communities across the country. At the core of the dramas acting out in homes and on streets and in prisons the loss of the ability to ground one's self into the spiritual tradition of their ancestors through acts of terror fled the consciousness of the generation.

There are profound ways to shift consciousness, but there are employed actors in the game of terror that have effectively shut down the creative and magical process in children that makes adult mentorship programs too hard to assimilate into the culture of pain, and denial, and fear, and loss. There are words, powerful words that can shift direction and awaken the creative abilities to undo, to unlearn the craftsmanship of dying, and Death, but after thirty some years of attack upon the minds of colored peoples the words of say an Albert Einstein (1879-1955) are too abstract for a common mind to grasp.

Einstein said, "Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live."

There is a lot in there. There is a path to freedom in those words, but people holding on to their tragedies can't hear the deeper teachings that lead out and away from the crudeness. It is hard, and I understand. I also understand that should a Messiah come he would be automatically minimized by the nature of belief that dominates and oppresses the minds of the oppressed.

These are my words. I am Gregory E. Woods a Keeper of Stories.
8.30.13

Dreadlocked beauty of a Fierce woman is a reminder of the heritage, the strong lineage of holy people, mothers, warriors, inventors, strategists, fighters, fathers, philosophers, our ancestral knowledge, the artistic traditions of the soul of the various tribes we came from, and the genius of the spirit of who  we are and who we were as a People. Who we will become is the product of our thoughts, the depth and meaning of our intent, the breath of our ancestors, and our definitions of power, where we stand, and how we envision the futures. It is through our loins in the solitude of turmoil and the relieve of quieter times we can speak to our grandchildren's children.

This has always been our way of surviving, and living in the depth of the moments we have.

 - Alowan Chanteh Inyan Wichasha
8.3.13

tattooed bodies of 2 Black women with big assess was all he talked about. Graham never spoke of them by their names. "They was his bitches!" he claimed.

Little Mike was 12. Only twelve and he looked up to Graham without balanced questions. That was the shame of it and that was the end of it for Don. Don was a quiet man who lived by himself near where all the action took place in this part of South Chicago. He worked as a plummer on the Saturdays his dad needed help, but most of his money was made working for the city government, and his side jobs as a photographer. It was the photography gig that got him involved with Mark and Mike.

Don had taken some pictures of a fight near Mr. Lee's restaurant that sold handsomely to a couple of publications. But, during the development process of his film he noticed the two boys and the delight in their eyes watching Graham brutally beat a woman in front of her children. That stirred Don into rage and later action. He took time to find out about the two boys. Got to know some of their family members, and tried to build a friendship with the boys. It was too hard. Little Mike loved the street life, and was suspicious of Don's intention. He was afraid of him. Thought he was a fag of some sort. It was this perception of Mike's that got Don on Graham's target list. He didn't like what fags had done in his family.

That was two years before Mike shot Don in the head and was initiated into the gang that later turned him out when he tried to defend the life of a woman who used to baby sit him. The gang thought he was soft, and didn't, as they repeatedly said, "Didn't give a fuck!" about the woman. To them she had pussy to be taken, and everyone knew she had no Old Man, and no gang claimed her. She was a working stiff trying to make a living and get out duh 'hood. That's what Rodriquez said after his turn in her.

That was the comment that released Little Mike's rage, and got him shot in the head by his boys. That was the shot that rang out with the truth the neighborhood taught him to scorn and ignore. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.30.13

"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets." 

- Marilyn Monroe

Adriana Lima, international model

August 26, 2013

Cameron 5 

"There is always hope of redemption!! With breath there is Life. Within Life there is hope to remember and reclaim!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of the Drum

Teresa Ware Moody & her husband in church!!!!

Taraji P. Henson in a sequined pink & leopard Basler gown with plunging neckline is amongst the best of our best. Our best is not good enough until our best is not the exception. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Black Mothers White Images

Betty White in 1951

Betty White re-invented the image of motherhood, and womanhood in Colored people's minds in the 1950's and '60's. She replaced in a lot of Colored kid's minds their own mothers when they were dreaming about ideals. Because Betty White was on television, as was Timmy's mother on Lassie, and Daniel Boone's wife, and Kitty on GUNSMOKE were on there too many of us dreamt of them as our mothers, wives, or girlfriends, if we could catch up with their ages. 

It was innocence, but it played havoc on some people's minds these ideals and the idea that beautiful white women on the screen were the ideals and our mother's were just Colored. But, in the end, and at the end of the show, or movie our mothers cooked dinner for us and tucked us in at night and all was well and our need to be loved and cherished had come true looking up into our mother's face knowing she was the truth. 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.29.13



My Vintage Look

Betty Page tantalizing !!!!