QOTD: Rita Levi-Montalcini
- July 12th, 2010
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I choose to live completely in the moment. At least I try to. And while doing so I am mentally aware of and preparing to create the road of my future, while being spiritually aware of my past and foundation. Not many people live in the moment. I think if we could truly live in the moment at all times and remain aware we would better innerstand how fragile life is. How, at a fleeting moment one could cease to exist for any number of reasons. If we could be in touch with that kind of in-tuneness we wouldn't waste our lives with ANYTHING that isn't productive and geared towards leaving a mark on the world for eternity that is positive. - Ras~

“Pain is the nature of motivation.” Robyn Goodman speaking about her good friend the late great actor John Cazale (Most only know him as Fredo in The Godfather) in reference to his method of acting. John Cazale who only appeared in 5 films in his short career but all of them became classics simply because of his innate ability to elevate the other actors around him to higher heights of performance and depth of interpretation of characters. Please watch the moving documentary I Knew It Was You on HBO.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blow, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” -Frederick Douglass

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Incisions with Precision Presents: 16 on Death Row by Tupac Shakur 16 On Death Row is one of Tupac’s most poignant tales of desperation of life that leads to crime and the experience of the teenager who spends his formative years growing into a hardened heartless criminal. Click image for entire article. Below you can ...
Notorious B.I.G.: Modern Day Griot by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams What is a Griot? A griot (English pronunciation: /ˈɡri.oʊ/, French pronunciation: [ɡʁi.o], with a silent t) or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician, considered a repository of oral tradition. As such, they are sometimes also ...
Building to Destroy, Destroying to Build: How Hip Hop Creates Non Domesticated Thinkers by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams This piece brings home the overstanding that Hip Hop as a culture that has always pushed the boundaries as far as innovation and cultural development in a way of life that has created more societal change in a ...
Cooperative Intelligence: Important Spiritual Lessons from a ‘Simple’ Organism by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams The depth and profound spiritual insight our ancestors garnered from the smallest and seemingly most insignificant things gave humans the most profound spiritual and scientific wisdom EVER created by man! To find out what I am speaking of click the image for ...
Long Live the Ka and Ba of Dr Van Sertima. May he Rest In Power!!! Many may ask what the illustrious Dr. Ivan Van Sertima has to do with the Hip Hop generation. The answer is quite a bit but in order to understand the connection, one must know the history surrounding the transformation of black youth that Dr. Van Sertima was trying to address.
Killing in the Name of Another’s God by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams Historically everywhere Colonizers have set up shop as conquerors and enslavers of African people they always first brought religion. As the Letter written by King Leopold to his Xtian Missionaries he dispatched to the Congo in 1883 which I dub the true and original ...