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‘Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us – Black, white, everyone – no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own. It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets.’ — Michelle Obama

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The most widely used drug in the world.

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Learn how you learn, help yourself

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artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

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There you are genuinely being the nice guy the listener the shoulder to cry on the one they run to with their problems, the trusted friend zone most of the time but more when they are feeling defeated and vulnerable. Contrary to the asshole that they all are but clearly you aren’t because they keep on telling you how bad they are to them and how hard it is dealing with them. You the advice giver with the power to be the nay sayers or the devil’s advocate. You steer them right the best you can because of your take it or leave it nature, either way you are fine.

As time passes, some come some go and few remain. A possible pairing blossoms and you explore and expand with. The past them and theys come for you as you come upon yours and try to keep you the same as you were. They fail to realize you were the ear they could funnel their problems in and the shoulder that kept their head straight and the eyes to view a new perspective to their situation and the heart they lacked when they needed confidence. The soul that was tethered, the feet that was grounded the back that had theirs. The hands always willing to help. Though many of the issues had nothing to do with them you made it about them. Placed them in the center as the main character in their lives.

As you become the main character of your story, the theys and them come for you. The supporting character should know their place. They still fail to realize that they have been your focus for SO long that you know them. You’ve watched them mature, you’ve witnessed and listened to their dirt and pains. You have all this knowledge on them that if they did notice it would explain why they come for you which is fear but knowing they know not what they do you know that you can speak your piece of your life they they gave to you and return these lost pieces back to their places. You get with your loves and they fade away with the idea that physics is a fact on our planet, that which comes up must come down. You and yours can remain content in knowing that the nice guy plays the game not the person unless the person builds contention.

With contention, the full intention would be to protect you and yours with all of yours, mind, eyes, shoulders, heart, ears, back, legs, feet, soul, spirit. Nice guys always has a limit.

You can always choose a jerk or asshole who always has a lie ready and is ready to play you for what you have. Where the game is never off and the pot is always full and the excitement is always peaked. To know that the information shared has to be selective and the stories shared has to be fabricated as a self defense mechanism. To live by the order of my story is only for me to tell. And if you die tomorrow the narrative is written by whoever else whether fact or fiction your memory lives on warped and twisted like the hoops of the arena “the self defense mechanism”

Rolling over in your grave, the stories are a game of telephone and they aren’t even talking about you just someone that goes by the same name. Defending yourself so long no one really knows you or bothers to take the time. Thinking you are living because the arguments are high, same place, new faces and new ways to win the lie. Lie to yourself and say you’re okay you don’t even much want anybody around you anymore accustomed to the next body to add to the “they ain’t” and “all of them are” pile.

You think you find yours but your past starts to creep you’ve got not much to be stressed about but it was never you it was always them. They have the problems and issues. Their past comes for them and now there are the issues the things they tell their nice friends and the stories you share to nice friends. Nice guys finish last.

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“There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”

— Beau Taplin

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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2017)

“Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.

Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere.

Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.”

By Damian Duffy, Octavia E. Butler (Author) art John Jennings

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Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006), often referred to as the “grand dame of science fiction,” was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena City College, and also attended California State University in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Butler was the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Fellowship (“genius” grant). She won the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nebula and Hugo Awards, among others.

John Jennings is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo and has written several works on African-American comics creators. His research is concerned with the topics of representation and authenticity, visual culture, visual literacy, social justice, and design pedagogy. He is an accomplished designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist, who most recently organized an exhibition/program on Afrofuturism and the Black Comic Book Festival, both at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

Damian Duffy, cartoonist, writer, and comics letterer, is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and a founder of Eye Trauma Studios (eyetrauma.net). His first published graphic novel, The Hole: Consumer Culture, created with artist John Jennings, was released by Front 40 Press in 2008. Along with Jennings, Duffy has curated several comics art shows, including Other Heroes: African American Comic Book Creators, Characters and Archetypes and Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics, and published the art book Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture. He has also published scholarly essays in comics form on curation, new media, diversity, and critical pedagogy.

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Don’t be the others who set the bar low just to impress themselves with mediocrity. It doesn’t last.

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

— Maya Angelou

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Mindset sets the playing field

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Ghost show you your truths though and that can be scary really looking at yourself

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