leave that immeasurably blessed brother Lyzell and give a young philosophy student a chance?
Okay, seriously...
Do you like to read? If so, who are some of your favorite writers of poetry or (especially) prose? What are some of your favorite books?

p.s. thank you for the art you have given the world.


Where there is no vision, the people perish. -Proverbs 29:18

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -Henry David Thoreau

Was my freedom not given to me then to build the world of you? -Frantz Fanon

...in the area of radical youth culture nothing sells as well as well-packaged and politically correct rebellion against a world that is ruled by political correctness and in which everything is packaged to be sold. -Victor Pelevin

Don't wanna do the Ruben Studdard and come off less threatenin'. -Black Thought



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in my ears:
Jill Scott, Beautifully Human
Amp Fiddler, Waltz of a Ghetto Fly
The Roots, The Tipping Point
Jay-Z, The Black Album
RJD2, Since We Last Spoke
Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
Lee Perry, Son of Thunder


in my thoughts:
how can one expect to win a war against an idea (e.g. political terrorism)?


reading:
China Achebe, Collected Poems
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
G.W.F. Hegel, Logic