Thumbs In Place of Guns
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
“The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.”
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Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. She has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, University of Georgia, and in the writing program at the University of Houston. As of 2011, Rankine is the Henry G. Lee Professor of Poetry at Pomona College.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.[1]Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), andThe Devil Finds Work (1976).
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Selected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks
“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
POTD - Kithenette Building by Gwendolyn Brooks
kitchenette building
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.”
But could a dream send up through onion fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall,
Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms
Even if we were willing to let it in,
Had time to warm it, keep it very clean,
Anticipate a message, let it begin?
We wonder. But not well! not for a minute!
Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now,
We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”
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Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka,[1] was an African-American writer of poetry,drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and theState University of New York at Stony Brook. He received thePEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
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Hi-Speed Wave Photography by Pierre Carreau
Photographer Pierre Carreau shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses.
Push by Sapphire
“… but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive…”
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Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950), better known by her pen nameSapphire, is an American author and performance poet.
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.”
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Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinique-born Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerned with thepsychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
Kindred by Octavia Butler
“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A multiple-recipient of both the Hugoand Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive theMacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the Genius Grant.
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Trainhopping Photos
Photographer Mike Brodie, beginning when he was just 17, spent more than 10 years train hopping, walking and hitchhiking, covering more than 50,000 miles in 46 states. Photos he took from 2006 through 2009 make up his “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” photography project.
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth—even if they decide to help the less fortunate—while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.”
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Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton PhD and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two". Dyson has authored and edited 18 books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X;Martin Luther King, Jr.; Marvin Gaye; Nas's debut albumIllmatic; Bill Cosby; Tupac Shakur; and Hurricane Katrina.
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Vinyl wrapped cord, in-line mic, adjustable fit, the LST12 Headphones in Zebra wood are like BEATS but stylish.
Famous Paintings Re-created With Pantone Swatches
Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others.
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Famous Paintings Re-created With Pantone Swatches
Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others.
http://www.smithandstuff.com
Famous Paintings Re-created With Pantone Swatches
Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others.
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal, the NAACP Image Award, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award,for her Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has recently been named as one of Oprah Winfrey’s twenty- five “Living Legends.”
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Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
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Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
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