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soulbrotherv2:
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy…
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
by Virginia Hamilton
A collection of twenty-five African-American folktales focuses on strong female characters and includes “”Little Girl and Bruh Rabby,”” “”Catskinella,”” and “”Annie Christmas.”” By the author of The People Could Fly.
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"Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction."
“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”
– Bobby Sommer (via wryer)
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"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are…"
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via thatkindofwoman)
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blackfashion:
From the book DREADS by Francesco Mastalia and…
From the book DREADS by Francesco Mastalia and Alfonse Pagano.
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8PM.
I’ll be premiering my vampire web series teaser:…
8PM.
I’ll be premiering my vampire web series teaser: Suicide By Sunlight, alongside 3 other immensely talented black women filmmakers.
C ya there! <3
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/379877642130884/?notif_t=plan_user_joined
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vagabondaesthetics:
hou hsiao hsien – millenium mambo
hou hsiao hsien – millenium mambo
Donald Conley • The Kings of Summer
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dynamicafrica:
masembe:
First look images from Mahamat-Saleh…
First look images from Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Cannes 2013 entry “Grisgris” (via Shadow and Act)
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a film director from Chad.
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Shawn Peters • Anna Sui
This is a corporate video that I was Director of Photography on for Director Dominique Deleon. The client is Anna Sui perfume and it has been distributed in Sephora stores world-wide.
Cast: Shawn Peters
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Shawn Peters • Hanae Mori
This is a corporate video that I was Director of Photography on for Director Dominique Deleon. The client is Hanae Mori perfume and it has been distributed in Sephora stores world-wide.
Cast: Shawn Peters
Tags: Shawn Peters, Hanae Mori and Dominique Deleon
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theclotheshorse:
“Une Femme Est Une Femme” photographed by…
“Une Femme Est Une Femme” photographed by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, and styled by Samuel François for Lula #16 S/S 2013
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manufactoriel:
undertheinfluencemagazine:
Gabonese artist…
Gabonese artist Natalie Mba Bikoro presents her etchings based on Lewis Carrol’s timeless classic and Emma Cavendish discusses the collection.
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manufactoriel:
katebomz:
Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar…
Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan.
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Excerpt from SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT web series promo: Black Vamp…
Excerpt from SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT web series promo: Black Vamp Seduces Victim. #swag
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I don’t want to bring this to a conclusion on a down note. A few…
I don’t want to bring this to a conclusion on a down note. A few years back, I got a call from an agent and he said, “Will you come see this film? It’s a small, independent film a client made. It’s been making the festival circuit and it’s getting a really good response but no distributor will pick it up, and I really want you to take a look at it and tell me what you think.” The film was called Memento. So the lights come up and I think, It’s over. It’s over. Nobody will buy this film? This is just insane. The movie business is over. It was really upsetting. Well fortunately, the people who financed the movie loved the movie so much that they formed their own distribution company and put the movie out and made $25 million. So whenever I despair I think, OK, somebody out there somewhere, while we’re sitting right here, somebody out there somewhere is making something cool that we’re going to love, and that keeps me going. The other thing I tell young filmmakers is when you get going and you try to get money, when you’re going into one of those rooms to try and convince somebody to make it, I don’t care who you’re pitching, I don’t care what you’re pitching – it can be about genocide, it can be about child killers, it can be about the worst kind of criminal injustice that you can imagine – but as you’re sort of in the process of telling this story, stop yourself in the middle of a sentence and act like you’re having an epiphany, and say: You know what, at the end of this day, this is a movie about hope.
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"Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and…"
“Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and they’ll be like ‘Well we should hang out!’ and I’m like ‘No, that’s not what I meant. That’s not what I meant at all.’”
– JM (via thatkindofwoman)
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"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because…"
“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
– Junot Diaz (via livelearnandpanic)
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"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away…"
““Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.””
– Cheryl Strayed (via creatingaquietmind)
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"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that…"
““She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?””
– Douglas Coupland (via thecrackerfactory)
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Tahir Jetter
Terence’s Movie Is Out, This Week!
Well worth the cost of a ticket. Opening in NYC and LA.
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Video directed by We Are From La : wearefromla.com/…
Video directed by We Are From La : wearefromla.com/
Director of photography: Arnau Valls Colomer
Produced by Iconoclast & Kitsuné
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ayanaahj:
Octavia Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John…
Octavia Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John Muir High School in Pasadena, California.
(via Stacey Muhammad)
“This brisk and self-searching, sharply intelligent and deeply vulnerable romantic comedy is a masterwork of reflexive construction. The young director, Terence Nance, builds the film around his 2006 short, “How Would You Feel?,” a love story in the conditional mode in which he co-stars, with Namik Minter—both playing themselves—to depict the course of their tentative relationship.”
READ MORE:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/an_oversimplification_of_her_beauty_nance
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thesmithian:
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art: photo by Gordon Parks—’Mr. and Mrs….
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art: photo by Gordon Parks—’Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton,’ Mobile, Alabama 1956
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Stills from our promotional shoot for web-series Suicide By…
Stills from our promotional shoot for web-series Suicide By Sunlight: https://www.facebook.com/SuicideBySunlight?group_id=0
There is nothing romantic about the filmmaking process but Im constantly gratified and inspired by being on set. Amazing team of collaborators. Thank god for my NYC film family.
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afro-politaine:
dynamicafrica:
RIP to legendary Tanzanian…
RIP to legendary Tanzanian Taarab singer Fatma binti Baraka, popularly known as Bi Kidude, who passed away on April 17th, 2013, at her home on the island of Zanzibar. She is believed to have surpassed 100 years of age.
As a child, she was singled out for her fine voice and, in the 1920s, sang locally with popular cultural troupes, combining an understanding of music with an equally important initiation into traditional medicine.
At age 13, after a forced marriage she fled Zanzibar to mainland Tanzania. Bi Kidude toured mainland East Africa with a taarab ensemble, visiting the major coastal towns and inland as far west as Lake Victoria and Tanganyika.
She walked the length and the breadth of the country barefoot in the early 1930s fleeing another unhappy marriage. In the 1930s she ended up in Dar es Salaam where she sang with Egyptian Taarab group for many years. In the 1940s she returned to Zanzibar where she acquired a small mud hut to be her home.
She is known for her role in the Unyago movement which prepares young Swahili women for their transition through puberty. She is one of the experts of this ancient ritual, performed only to teenage girls, which uses traditional rhythms to teach women to pleasure their husbands, while lecturing against the dangers of sexual abuse and oppression.
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newmodelminority:
blackinasia:
“Einstein, when he arrived in…
“Einstein, when he arrived in America, was shocked at how Black Americans were treated. “There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States,” he said. “That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.” And, he wasn’t.
Although he had a fear of speaking in public, he made all the effort he could to spread the word of equality, denouncing racism and segregation and becoming a huge proponent of civil rights even before the term became fashionable. Einstein was a member of several civil rights groups (including the Princeton chapter of the NAACP).
Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!”
Source: Craig Lowery II for Last Words.
Einstein, like Camus, is my boo.
