i'm on my way home now (i'll be back tomorrow, of course) but i checked quickly and love yr work- we shd talk about this thing the dc okayplayers are doing- you may be interested- where are you agin (again, i won't be back until tomorrow morning)-

as for this beauty thing, i think we get carried away as activists demonizing beauty or losing its place within our own lives when, particularly for artists, it can be a deep and tightly woven aspect of our everyday lives- so we discuss grooming like it's a bad thing, but this is really where motivation comes into it-

does wearing ginger mean that you don't like yr natural smell? (i LOVE the smell of ginger, too-)

thing is, these borders get all bizarre and funny once we acknowledge the integral role that beauty plays in our lives, and i realize i never connected the two schools of thought in terms of beauty until this poet friend of mine mentioned it to me-


==**peace**==

"baby,
I'd draw yuh bath
like Picasso..

pick you,
like fruit
off yuh family tree. &
eatcha' honeydew ass,
wet"

-Giovanni, rhythmic poet extraordinaire

i believe in education and empowerment through art. i believe that movements happen when ideas are set to music. bodies and people come together through dance and movement, eyes awaken in the face of a good movie, and whatever ya gotta say is useless unless you can use these tools to reach right into people

"The logic of divide and rule is still valid today." Capleton

DomePoem Poets; Vibe Nation; One ppl under the spoken word

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"Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere"
- Amiri Baraka

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