A small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.
Semper Fi, Semper Funky
Money talks, bullshit walks … Pecunia sermo, somnium ambulo.
Weary and stuffed from being force-fed the falsehood that when one of your kind makes it, it means that you’ve all made it.
Sometimes I'd chance across an elderly member of the community standing in the middle of the street, unable to cross the single white line. Puzzled looks on their faces from asking themselves why they...
I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
But today I’m all medulla oblongata and I can’t concentrate.
All Vices and Bad Habits Referred to as Phases Not Responsible for Scratches, Dents, and Items Left in the Subconscious
What goes around, comes around … Quod circumvehitur, revehitur.
Perspicacity.
True freedom is having the right to be a slave.
Tu dormis, tu perdis … You snooze, you lose.
The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way.
I can think of a more despicable word than ‘nigger’, I volunteered. […]Like what?Like any word that ends in –ess: Negress. Jewess. Poetess. Actress. Adultress. Factchecktress. I’d rather be called ‘ni...
Factio vestri aevum, non vestri calceus amplitudo. And
Daddy never believed in closure. He said it was a false psychological concept. Something invented by therapists to assuage white Western guilt. In all his years of study and practice, he’d never heard...
Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can’t think of any Asian-American ones.
There should be a Stage IV of black identity—Unmitigated Blackness. I’m not sure what Unmitigated Blackness is, but whatever it is, it doesn’t sell. On the surface Unmitigated Blackness is a seeming u...
Sto facendo studi a dimostrazione che il vino rosso è davvero la panacea per tutti i mali
Like Nazis at a Ku Klux Klan rally, they were comfortable ideologically, but not in terms of corporate culture.