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'hmm, well, gee, uhhhhhhhh' - June Tyson
we be
fossilizing
time spirals
spectral
bodies in
shadows of fire
mystery
keepin' it all together
slowly breathe
spectral
shadows
bodies in
shadows
time spiral
bodies in
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dynamism - necrow
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lyrics, from 1992 Tupac interview (source, internet archive):
This world is such a, and when I say this world I mean it, I don’t mean it in an ideal sense I mean in everyday, every little thing you do it’s such a, “gimmie, gimmie, gimmie” everybody back off you know? everybody is like to be taught that from school, everywhere, big business. If you wanna be successful? You wanna be like Trump? Gimme, gimmie, gimmie, push, push, push, push, step, step, step, crush, crush, crush. that’s how it all is and it’s like nobody ever stops and you know I feel like instead of us just being like “slavery’s bad, slavery’s bad, bad whitey, bad whitey,” I mean aight let’s stop that everybody is smart enough to know that we’ve been slighted and we want ours. And I don’t mean by like ours 40 acres and mule because we’re past that, but we need help for us to be on our own two feet. Us meaning youth or us meaning Black people, whatever you wanna take it for, for us to be on our own two feet we do need help because we have been here and we have been a good friend if you wanna make it a relationship type thing. We have been there and now we deserve our payback.
There’s no way that these people should own planes and there are people who don’t have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants.
Huh, you know what I’m saying, but I’m saying it’s a struggle and I think everybody deserve, and I think there is a way to pay these people, I think there is a way, it just takes to be revolutionary and it takes to do something out of the ordinary, you know what I’m saying? Like I think that if we just said, okay, okay, I got an idea. No more porno buildings you know what I’m saying let’s build houses or No more polo games let’s build houses for poor people you know what I’m saying? Or look okay I know you rich, I know you got 40 billion dollars but can you just keep it to one house? You only need one house and if you only got two kids can you keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms when you know there’s someone with no room?
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it's the way
you dance
through chaos
it's the way
you move
your lips
it's the way
your skin
makes room for me
it's the way
you mend
the riff/ts
smooth operator
troublesome softie
smooth on the rhythm
make a new wave
smooth operator
troublesome softie
smooth on the rhythm
make a new wave
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Endless superstition flowing through my mind
Fossils of a city cast in clay and fire
Dotting all your eyes as pupils cross they tease
You’ll only belong here once your extricated
When you leave, you’re the only one deceived
When you lie, there’s no end to your disguise
You’ll only grieve, when you trade your dreams for schemes
Measure love in fathoms deep
We’ll take our time
And recite our lines
as we find
Our piece of mind
Such sweet release is this (is this)
Renew your lease if it’s (if it’s)
A new lease on life
Endless superstition
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holdenxcess - SoulJourn
08:22
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Lyrics, from poet Beah Richards “What Then is Black…” 1975 performance (source, instagram) -
Black is the form of forms. The womb of infinity. Out of which all things come and to which they in time return. It contains all things without distinction. In its deep pitch the seed of life begins. From its dark down comes healing sleep. To its merciful ink, consciousness flees pain. From its infinite reach comes the light of day.
Lyrics, Dallie from “Tell It Like It Was” 1971 episode on the Harlem Renaissance, Philly public broadcast (source, internet archive) -
We’re different. A new spirit. A quiet acceptance of their racial identity. An unselfconscious exploration of things Black.
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one midnight
at high tide
a cargo carrying Ebo Ibo men landed
at [so called] Dunbar’s Creek
on the Gullah Geeche Island of [so called] St.Simon’s.
But the men refused to be sold into slavery.
they joined hands
together and turned back towards the water chanting
‘the water brought us, the water will take us away’.
they all drowned. but to this day
when the breeze sighs through the marshes
and through the trees, you can hear the clank of chains
an echo of their chant
at Ebo Landing....
‘the water brought us, the water will take us away’.
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'hmm, well, gee, uhhhhhhhh' - June Tyson
we be
fossilizing
time spirals
spectral
bodies in
shadows of fire
mystery
keepin' it all together
slowly breathe
spectral
shadows
bodies in
shadows
time spiral
bodies in
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