The question.
“At what age do you cease to be young?“
The answer.
“When you start looking back on your life more than you look forward.“
-Ryland Sanders

It’s an idea that I’ve been playing with for a while. Weighing the ins and outs of every moral & legal crime. What, regardless of situation or context, is never justified?
A conversation last night brought this up again and the only thing we could come up with was child molestation.
With murder, there’s always “self defense” [...]

Ani DiFranco, “Coming Up“

Big Poppa E, “Canadian FedEx Lady“

Taalam Acey, “Market for Ni$$as“

Blair Rep, “I Represent Jesus Christ“

Rives, “If I Ran the Internet“

“I changed everyone I touched. I like to believe they did the same.“

A friend linked me to a video that reminded me of this speech. Thanks Casey.

“This is how many lives I’ve lived. The candles on the cake are a lie.“

“More memories at midnight than morning.“

A conversation about the new Batman movie introduced me to a new phrase.
Magical Negro.
The magical negro is typically “in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint,” often a janitor or prisoner. He has no past; he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist. He is the black [...]