Today will consist of listening to jazz, drinking water, physical exercise, bathing, a little cleaning, and reading.
Mosiah said "Spend all your spare time in your library."
I rarely have spare time so I'm going to just chill and spend some time with these tomes I have in my possession. I've bought a few books this year that I haven't even cracked open yet. I spend so much time dealing with academia over at Howard University, I rarely put time and energy into my personal studies. I am going to crack the ice today and delve into the field or subject of agriculture. My interests in most things are intense and concentrated, because that's my personality. I have been intensely interested in nutrition, and I still am. I've invested countless hours, which have become days, into studying nutrition. My related, and sort of subsequent, or superior goal and field is agriculture. I want to move from educating and guiding people regarding human nutrition and well being into the production of human nutrition. So I'm taking the opportunity today to crack into my encyclopedia and learn about some agriculture. And when I get a bit tired from that I"ll move to another book or subject in my library.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Abraham Lincoln states that his client is a Moor, not a Negro.
Peace, here is documentation of a case when Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer. The case explains how a Moor married a European-American, had a family dispute, and the results of that dispute were that his wife's brother wanted to get him expelled from the state [Illinois] in which he lived. The "Black Laws" at the time didn't permit 'free negroes,' in the State. But here it shows the brother wasn't a Negro, he was a Moor. A National prevailed. Peace.
Received it from one of my brothers, but it came from this site:
http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/Briefs/briefs23.htm
Lincoln Defends "Black Bill'
Among ten original Lincoln documents discovered last summer in the DeWitt County Courthouse is a bond for costs in William Dungey v. Joseph Spencer. Written but not signed by Lincoln, it was part of an interesting slander case. Family disputes that degenerated into slanderous, name-calling feuds frequently appeared in antebellum Illinois circuit courts. Such cases reflected the intent of American slander law to safeguard an individual's good reputation in the community against petty character assassination. Abraham Lincoln realized the value of reputation, and declared in his first printed political speech that, "Everyman is said to have his peculiar ambition . . . I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men. . . ."
One unique slander case Lincoln argued at the DeWitt County Circuit Court, Clinton, Illinois, in the May and October 1855 terms involved much more than a defamation of character, and suggested that Huck Finn's friend Jim might have reconsidered his plan of escape to freedom: "I reck'n'd at by fo' in the mawnin' I'd. . .slip in, jis b'fo daylight, en swim asho' en take to de woods on de Illinois side."
In August 1851, William Dungey, a dark-skinned young man of Portuguese descent, married Joseph Spencer's sister. A family quarrel ensued, which became so bitter that in January 1855, Spencer claimed throughout the community that his brother-in-law, "Black Bill," was a Negro.
Since 1819, Illinois laws permitted quasi-slavery and restricted the immigration of free blacks into the state. As other northern states passed personal liberty laws granting additional rights to free blacks, Illinois toughened its stance against them. The 1848 Illinois Constitution required the General Assembly to "pass such laws as will effectively prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling in this state. . . ." Those prohibitions were passed as the "Black Laws" and went into force on February 12, 1853, the future Emancipator's forty-fourth birthday.
William Dungey faced losing not only his reputation, but his marriage, property, and right to remain in Illinois. Section 10 of the 1853 law stated that, "Every person who shall have one-fourth negro blood shall be deemed a mulatto." William Dungey retained Abraham Lincoln to quash the possibility that he might be judged a "negro" and therefore suffer the severe penalties under the 1853 act.
Lincoln filed his declaration charging Joseph Spencer with slander on April 17, 1855, and sought $1,000 in damages. A game of legal chess occurred during the first hearing in May. Spencer's attorneys, Clifton H. Moore and Lawrence Weldon, filed a demurrer to Lincoln's declaration, asserting that his charges were insufficient in law. Judge David Davis agreed that two of Lincoln's three charges were faulty. The case was continued and Lincoln was allowed to amend the declaration. At the next term of court, October 1855, the case was argued before a jury.
According to Lawrence Weldon, Lincoln's talents as a trial lawyer were evident in his argument for Dungey. Weldon stated that Lincoln questioned Spencer's character by demonstrating how Spencer went from house to house "gabbing" that Dungey was a "nigger." Weldon emphasized that Lincoln's tone and pronunciation had a "curious touch of the ludicrous. . . which, instead of detracting, seemed to add to the effect."
Lincoln further undermined Spencer by using humor to persuade the jury that there was reasonable doubt regarding Dungey's race. Weldon recalled Lincoln's statement:
"My client is not a Negro, though it is a crime to be a Negro--no crime to be born with a black skin. But my client is not a Negro. His skin may not be as white as ours, but I say he is not a Negro, though he may be a Moore." "Mr. Lincoln," interrupted Judge Davis, scarcely able to restrain a smile, "you mean a Moor, not Moore." "Well, your Honor, Moor, not C.H. Moore," replied Mr. Lincoln, with a sweep of his long arm toward the table where Moore and I sat. "I say my client may be a Moor, but he is not a Negro."
Though the account may be apocryphal, Weldon's recollection was characteristic of Lincoln's style.Lincoln then demolished the defendant's witnesses' testimony. Moore and Weldon had secured several depositions from residents in Giles County, Tennessee, the Dungey family home. These witnesses stated that they had personally known the family, and that the white community had regarded the Dungeys as "negro," or of "mixed blood." Under cross examination, Lincoln argued that the testimony was hearsay as the witnesses admitted none of them lived within 30 miles of the Dungey residence.
On October 18, 1855, the jury returned a verdict of guilty and granted Dungey $600 in damages plus court costs of $137.50. Lincoln charged a $25 fee, which Lawrence Weldon considered minimal.
To avoid an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, Lincoln persuaded Dungey to remit $400 of the judgment in return for the defendant releasing "all errors which may exist in the court record. . ." Under Illinois law, the defendant could not appeal the verdict, but could appeal only on errors of procedure or evidence. Lincoln had taught Joseph Spencer an expensive lesson in domestic relations.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
A related excerpt from the Holy Koran Circle 7 of the Moorish Science Temple of America.
"13. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said: "A certain man possessed a field; the soil was hard and poor.
14. By constant toil he scarcely could provide enough of food to keep his family from want.
15. One day a miner who could see beneath the soil, in passing on his way, saw this poor man and his unfruitful field.
16. He called the weary toiler and he said: 'My brother, know you not that just below the surface of your barren field rich treasures lie concealed?
17. You plough and sow and reap in a scanty way, and day by day you tread upon a mine of gold and precious stones.
18. This wealth lies not upon the surface of the ground; but if you will dig away the rocky soil, and delve down deep into the earth, you need no longer till the soil for naught.'
19. The man believed. 'The miner surely knows,' 'And I will find the treasures hidden in my field.'
20. And then he dug away the rocky soil, and deep down in the earth he found a mine of gold."
21. And Jesus said: "The sons of men are toiling hard on desert plains, and burning sands and rocky soils, are doing what there fathers did, not dreaming they can do aught else.
22. Behold a master comes, and tells them of a hidden wealth; that underneath the rocky soil of carnal things are treasures that no man can count.
23. That in the heart the richest gems abound; that he who wills may open the door and find them all."
24. And then the people said: "Make known to us the way that we may find the wealth that lies within the heart."
25. And Jesus opened up the way; the toilers saw another side of life, and toil became a joy."
The wise man submits to conditions when he is helpless, bowing to the will of God. But the evil that is avoidable he roots out without sparing one single moment or effort.
By looking for happiness, what does man seek after? He is seeking after his self, though he does not know it. ... The more one understands oneself, the more one finds that everything that one finds lacking in others is also lacking in oneself. Does a person become less by finding faults in oneself? No, he becomes greater, for he not only finds that the faults which are in others are also to be found in him, but that all merits of the others are also his own merits. With faults and merits he becomes more complete, he does not become less.
What a great treasure it is when a man has realized that in him are to be found all the merits and all the faults which exist in the world, and that he can cultivate all that he wishes to cultivate, and to cut away all that should be removed! It is like rooting out the weeds and sowing the seeds of flowers and fruits. One finds that all is in oneself, and that one can cultivate in oneself what he wishes. A world opens for the man who begins to look within himself, for it is not a little plot of ground that he has to cultivate, he has a world to make of himself and to make a world is sufficient occupation to live for. What more does one want? Many think that life is not interesting because they make nothing, but they do not realize that they have to make a world, that they are making a world, either ignorantly or wisely. If they make a world ignorantly then that world is their captivity, if they make a world wisely then that world is their paradise.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
功夫 - Gong Fu - Kung Fu
Little Kung Fu Yoga Boy
功夫 - gōng fu - skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
"Skill achieved through hard work."
The words “kung fu” are of Chinese origin and are best translated as “hard work over an extended period of time”. It actually has a much broader meaning than self defense. The true meaning of kung fu lies in the achievement of excellence in any facet of life.
The word kung-fu 功夫 Means achievement of skill through labor and is commonly paraphrased as hard work.
The true meaning of Kung Fu is - Skill acquired over time. Kung means work. Fu has various meanings dependent upon context - such as discipline, skill, and perseverance. To have good Kung Fu means to be an expert at what you do no matter what it is. A master chef does kung fu, so does a special forces soldier. Both are experts at what they do and they have acquired their skills thru hard work over time. That is the true meaning of Kung Fu.
The true meaning of Kung Fu is - Skill acquired over time. Kung means work. Fu has various meanings dependent upon context - such as discipline, skill, and perseverance. To have good Kung Fu means to be an expert at what you do no matter what it is. A master chef does kung fu, so does a special forces soldier. Both are experts at what they do and they have acquired their skills thru hard work over time. That is the true meaning of Kung Fu.
Chávez Opens Palace to Venezuelan Flood Victims
CARACAS, Venezuela — Miraflores Palace, designed in the 1880s by an Italian count for one of Venezuela’s 19th-century dictators, has been home to presidents here for more than a century. In recent years, it has welcomed a lively medley of foreign leaders, including Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.
Hugo Chávez, opened the doors of the neoclassical building to a new set of residents: flood victims.
Appearing on state television at Miraflores clad in an olive drab military uniform, Mr. Chávez welcomed 26 families who had been displaced by torrential rains in recent weeks. The rainfall has caused flooding and landslides that have killed 25 people and forced more than 30,000 Venezuelans to flee, civil defense officials said.
“I have a proposal for you families: stay here for a year,” the president told the refugees who became his housemates on Wednesday. He then led them on a brief tour of a palace wing where beds and cribs had been set up next to a barbershop. “When you leave,” he said, “it will be to an apartment of your own.”
Beyond offering a helping hand, Mr. Chávez was once again displaying his facility at taking hold of the public discussion during a time of crisis, and he blunted criticism over his government’s handling of flood-prevention measures and its response to the rains.
His offer to allow families into Miraflores also plays into the fierce debate over a housing shortage that has forced many Venezuelans to live in hillside shacks that are vulnerable to the rains.
Mr. Chávez has seized housing tracts to alleviate the shortage. Private developers, in turn, have been hesitant to invest in new projects out of fear that they could be taken by the government.
If the rains continue, a great deal more could be at stake. A similar period of rainfall in 1999 led to landslides near Caracas, the capital, killing thousands of people. Ruins of buildings near the Caribbean coast that were destroyed in 1999 serve as testament to the destruction.
The president’s critics, pointing out that thousands of the flood victims will not have the chance to move into the palace, responded to his move with reactions varying from amusement to outrage. “Philanthropy can be virtuous,” the columnist Simón Boccanegra wrote in the newspaper Tal Cual, “but it can also be demagogic, exhibitionist and when taken to its extreme, truly grotesque and tacky.”
Mr. Chávez first raised the possibility of taking in refugees at Miraflores during his regular television broadcast on Sunday, saying that the palace kitchen alone had space for “about 20 families,” and that the chambers where his cabinet convened could be remodeled into about two apartments.
Fuerte Tiuna, a top military garrison, and Telesur, the regional Spanish-language television network supported by Venezuela, have also opened their grounds to flood victims. Officials have closed schools, opened more than 250 shelters and deployed 10,000 troops to provide aid.
Peace
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Orison Swett Marden
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The Dusty Foot Philosopher - For Mahomoud (Soviet) - K'naan
What is a Dusty Foot Philosopher, according to K'naan?
Thursday, November 25, 2010
The Information Society and Age: The Digitization of Knowledge
How Google Can Save America’s Books
by Robert Darnton | NYRBlog
| The New York Review of Books
____This all reminds me of Marshall McLuhan's phrase, "The medium is the message." and his idea of the 'global village,' which is being created through the digitization of everything and the connection of the world via internet. The 'medium' is digital. It doesn't matter WHAT it is... it's FREE, it's FAST, and it's AVAILABLE. It's EXTENSIVE and it's KNOWLEDGE, all written and digitized NUMERICALLY with 0's and 1's. What implications does this have? Libraries without walls. Global availability of knowledge. It will even out the playing field and allow people who may not have access to knowledge via books and other media, to get that desired knowledge. Peace Up._____
by Robert Darnton | NYRBlog
| The New York Review of Books
____This all reminds me of Marshall McLuhan's phrase, "The medium is the message." and his idea of the 'global village,' which is being created through the digitization of everything and the connection of the world via internet. The 'medium' is digital. It doesn't matter WHAT it is... it's FREE, it's FAST, and it's AVAILABLE. It's EXTENSIVE and it's KNOWLEDGE, all written and digitized NUMERICALLY with 0's and 1's. What implications does this have? Libraries without walls. Global availability of knowledge. It will even out the playing field and allow people who may not have access to knowledge via books and other media, to get that desired knowledge. Peace Up._____
Google represents the ultimate in business plans. By controlling access to information, it has made billions, which it is now investing in the control of the information itself. What began as Google Book Search is therefore becoming the largest library and book business in the world. Like all commercial enterprises, Google’s primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders. Libraries exist to get books to readers—books and other forms of knowledge and entertainment, provided for free. The fundamental incompatibility of purpose between libraries and Google Book Search could be mitigated if Google were willing to contribute some of its data and expertise to the creation of a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Google has demonstrated the possibility of transforming the intellectual riches of our libraries, books lying inert and underused on shelves, into an electronic database that could be tapped by anyone anywhere at any time. Why not adapt its formula for success to the public good—a digital library composed of virtually all the books in our greatest research libraries available free of charge to the entire citizenry, in fact, to everyone in the world?
To dismiss this goal as naive or utopian would be to ignore digital projects that have proven their worth and feasibility throughout the last twenty years. All major research libraries have digitized parts of their collections. Since 1995 the Digital Library Federation has worked to combine their catalogues or “metadata” into a general network. More ambitious enterprises such as the Internet Archive,Knowledge Commons, and Public.Resource.Org have attempted digitization on a larger scale. They may be dwarfed by Google, but several countries are now determined to out-Google Google by scanning the entire contents of their national libraries.
In December 2009 President Nicolas Sarkozy of France announced that he would make €750 million available for digitizing the French cultural “patrimony.” The National Library of the Netherlands aims to digitize within ten years every Dutch book, newspaper, and periodical produced from 1470 to the present. National libraries in Japan, Australia, Norway, and Finland are digitizing virtually all of their holdings; and Europeana, an effort to coordinate digital collections on an international scale, will have made over ten million objects—from libraries, archives, museums, and audiovisual holdings—freely accessible online by the end of 2010.
If these countries can create national digital libraries, why can’t the United States? Because of the cost, some would argue. Far more works exist in English than in Dutch or Japanese, and the Library of Congress alone contains 30 million volumes. Estimates of the cost of digitizing one page vary enormously, from ten cents (the figure cited by Brewster Kahle, who has digitized over a million books for the Internet Archive) to ten dollars, depending on the technology and the required quality. But it should be possible to digitize everything in the Library of Congress for less than Sarkozy’s €750 million—and the cost could be spread out over a decade.
The greatest obstacle is legal, not financial. Presumably, the DPLA would exclude books currently being marketed, but it would include millions of books that are out of print yet covered by copyright, especially those published between 1923 and 1964, a period when copyright coverage is most obscure, owing to the proliferation of “orphans”—books whose copyright holders have not been located. Congress would have to pass legislation to protect the DPLA from litigation concerning copyrighted, out-of-print books. The rights holders of those books would have to be compensated, yet many of them, especially among academic authors, might be willing to forgo compensation in order to give their books new life and greater diffusion in digitized form. Several authors protested against the commercial character of Google Book Search and expressed their readiness to make their work available free of charge in memoranda filed with the New York District Court.
Perhaps even Google itself could be enlisted in the cause. It has digitized about two million books in the public domain. It could turn them over to the DPLA as the foundation of a collection that would grow to include more recent books—at first those from the problematic period of 1923–1964, then those made available by their rights holders. Google would lose nothing by this generosity; each digitized book that it made available could, if other donors agree, be identified as a contribution from Google; and it might win admiration for its public-spiritedness.
Even if Google refused to cooperate, a coalition of foundations could provide enough to finance the DPLA, and a coalition of research libraries could provide the books. By working systematically through their holdings, a great collection could be formed. It would conform to the highest standards in its bibliographical apparatus, its scanning, its editorial decisions, and its commitment to preservation for the use of future generations.
Should the Google Book Search agreement not be upheld by the court, its unraveling would come at an extraordinary moment in the development of an information society. We have now reached a period of fluidity, uncertainty, and opportunity. Things have come undone, and they can be put together in new ways, subordinating private profit to the public good and providing everyone with access to a commonwealth of culture.
Would a Digital Public Library of America solve all the other problems—the inflation of journal prices, the economics of scholarly publishing, the unbalanced budgets of libraries, and the barriers to the careers of young scholars? No. Instead, it would open the way to a general transformation of the landscape in what we now call the information society. Rather than better business plans (not that they don’t matter), we need a new ecology, one based on the public good instead of private gain. This may not be a satisfactory conclusion. It’s not an answer to the problem of sustainability. It’s an appeal to change the system.
PBS Documentary: The Story of India
This Documentary is SOLID. Great survey.
The Story of India: Part 1
The Story of India: Part 2
Tilaka or Tilak
The Tilak or Tilaka is a Hindu religious mark that is primarily seen on the forehead but may go on many parts of the body. The mark is usually made from some form of paste, powder, or ash; the ash often coming from burned wood, cow dung or incense. There are different tilaks or tilakas depending on which sampradaya (sect/denomination) one is apart of. In more ancient times the distinction between sampradaya was serious and austere. For instance, a Shaiva (a Hindu devoted to the worship of the god Shiva as the supreme being) and a Vaishnava (a Hindu devoted to the worship of the god Vishnu as the supreme being, especially in his incarnation as Krishna) would often have aggressive and contentious debates and a Shaiva wouldn't be seen in a Vaishnava shrine or temple or vice versa. Nowadays both shrines can be seen in one temple. The tilak represents the 6th Chakra, which is the crown chakra. It also represents the Third Eye, The Spirit's Eye, or the Soul's Eye. The Tilak or Tilaka can often be associated or confused with the bindi, which is primarily used for decoration, but can have similar symbolism.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Russell Simmons: Argyleculture
Being refined, gentlemanly and sharp has always been apart of Moorish culture, the original mans culture and way of self-expression or unfoldment.
Argyleculture is an interesting brand and an interesting move by Russell Simmons after Phat Farm. The vibration is more mature, more refined, and suave. Russell Simmons is slowly becoming one of my idols. He's a Hip Hop mogul, multimillionaire, vegan, and Buddhist. What more can I say?
Argyleculture is an interesting brand and an interesting move by Russell Simmons after Phat Farm. The vibration is more mature, more refined, and suave. Russell Simmons is slowly becoming one of my idols. He's a Hip Hop mogul, multimillionaire, vegan, and Buddhist. What more can I say?
MikeFlo: Fly Fresh and Responsible
Straightforward POWERful Hip Hop, or God Hop. Lions!
Download Link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/t8zfem
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Moorish-Hindu-Indian-Connection-Taj Tariq Bey-Library of Congress
There's an infinite amount of knowledge they (European colonists) have hidden in plain sight, and off site in forts and vaults. If we seek, we'll find, however. Again, I was in the Library of Congress, doing some research for my people and found something interesting.
Moorish Heads On The Library of Congress
In September of 2009 I was in the Library Of Congress periodically doing research. As it says in the following video I was going through the researchers door and it happened to be closed. On the way back I was using my eyes and ears and saw the Moorheads on the side of the building. I have some close up pictures too, because you can't completely see the Fez, Turban, or the Moors from the video.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
I AM - ☪ ✡
I AM - ☪ ✡ a(n):
✡ Architect ☪ Author ✡ Begetter ☪ Builder ✡ Constructor ☪ Creator ✡ Cultivator ☪ Designer ✡ Developer ☪ Engineer ✡ Father ☪ Human Being ✡ Illuminator ☪ Maker ✡ Moor ☪ Moslem ✡ Originator ☪ Planner ✡ Producer ☪ Protector ✡ Revealer ☪ Spirit ✡ Young Man ☪
I AM - ☪ ✡
✡ Architect ☪ Author ✡ Begetter ☪ Builder ✡ Constructor ☪ Creator ✡ Cultivator ☪ Designer ✡ Developer ☪ Engineer ✡ Father ☪ Human Being ✡ Illuminator ☪ Maker ✡ Moor ☪ Moslem ✡ Originator ☪ Planner ✡ Producer ☪ Protector ✡ Revealer ☪ Spirit ✡ Young Man ☪
I AM - ☪ ✡
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life
An interesting poem I stumbled upon when I google searched, "Life is real; Life is earnest." WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;--
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Nneka - Africans
A Song My bro Jordan Rivers put me on to.
Here are the Lyrics:
U keep pushing the blame on our colonial fathers
U say they came and they took all we had pocessed
They have to take the abuse that they have caused our present state with their intruding history
Use our goodness and nourishment in the Name of missionary
Lied to us,blinded slaved us,misplaced us,strengthen us,hardened us then
they replaced us now we got to learn from pain
Now it is up to us to gain some recognition
If we stopp blaming we could get a better condition
Wake up world!!
Wake up and stop sleeping
Wake up africa!!
Wake up and stop blaming
Open ur eyes!!
Stand up and rise
Road block oh life penalty
Why do we want to remain where we started
And how long do we want to stop ourselves from thinking
We should learn from experience that what we are here for this existence
But now we decide to use the same hatred to oppress our own brothers
It is so comfortable to say racism is the cause
but this time it is the same colour chasing and biting us
Knowledge and selfishness that they gave to us,this is what we use to abuse us
Wake up world!!
Wake up and stop sleeping
Wake up africa!!
Wake up and stop blaming
Open ur eyes!!
Stand up and rise
Road block oh life penalty
Those who have ears let them hear
Brothers who are not brainwashed takt ruins and rest
Pick them up and stick them back together
This is the only way we can change this african weather
Lied to us,blinded slaved us,misplaced us,strengthen us,hardened us then
they replaced us now we got to learn from pain
Wake up world!!
Wake up and stop sleeping
Wake up africa!!
Wake up and stop blaming
Open ur eyes!!
Stand up and rise
Road block oh life penalty
you got to wake up please
youuuuu got tooo
(wake up africa wake up and stop blaming)
blaming ha ha ha
open yours eyes your eyes
stand up and riise
road block oh life penalty
wake up...
Friday, November 5, 2010
The Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Dezarie's New Album: The Fourth Book
1. Jah Know Better
2. Tryin To Be God
3. Ghettos of Babylon
4. Everyday
5. Children of the Most High
6. Foolin' Yourself
7. Roots & Culture
8. Not Yours
9. Defend Right
10 Holy of Holies
2. Tryin To Be God
3. Ghettos of Babylon
4. Everyday
5. Children of the Most High
6. Foolin' Yourself
7. Roots & Culture
8. Not Yours
9. Defend Right
10 Holy of Holies
My favorite song is ROOTS AND CULTURE!
BIG TUNE!
Blessings to Dezarie.
Peace and Love
Friday, October 29, 2010
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
"Your mother's health, stress level and state of mind while she was pregnant with you -- all these factors shaped you as a baby and a child and continue to affect you to this day."
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Formula
9th and Buckshot collaborated again. Just as dope as Chemistry, if not better. I like 9th's style of beatmakin' and Buckshots aggressive raps n rhymes.
IP Man
Just saw a really impressive Kung Fu movie. As always there was an excellent plot and had plenty of insight. Dignity, diligence, practice, integrity, family, nationality, and fatherhood. Great movie. It's about the story of Yip man, a Wing Chun master in the early 20th century. Yip man was the Master of the renowned Bruce Lee.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
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