“I’m always flattered when my honey takes an interest in my things. It shows that he’s making an effort to understand me and be involved in the things that I’m passionate about. It makes life easier to share those things with the person you love.”
Conventional Culture: Love Everyday: I Like What You Like
May242012
May232012
“To me, there are bigger issues with Basketball Wives than just Tami’s conduct. BBW is a case study on group mentality and behavior. These women are fighting to be in the circle and fighting to be the group leader because they are all afraid to stand on their own. While Tami and Evelyn antagonize and terrorize all of the newer women in their clique, the others just sit by and say nothing.”
Conventional Culture: Basketball Wives: Enough is Enough!
May102012
Conventional Culture: On My Mind: Hallmark Commercials & The President's Stance on Gay Marriage
Hallmark doesn’t see it for ethnic mothers, and the fallout from Obama’s announcement is weighing on me.
May62012
Conventional Culture: It's Sleep-In Weekend!!!
I made my own sleeping event. It’s that serious.
April172012
Idiot Box: The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion, Part I
Part I of the reunion aired on Sunday, and I give props [or not] for some key points on the show.
April132012
dream hampton: Zadie Smith On Writing
1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you…
April112012
San Diego Scene: Anthology & The Jade Element
I recently got a chance to experience Anthology and the sounds of The Jade Element!
April52012
Dear beautiful brown-skinned girl,
I look into your eyes and see the light and hope of myself.
In this photo you are just about to turn 20, posing outside the television station where you were recently hired as a reporter. You’re proud of yourself for getting the job, but uncertain you’ll be able to manage all your college classes before 1 and arrive at the station by 1:30 for a full day’s work. Even so, your biggest concern is how to manage your love life with Bubba. Yes, you are dating someone named Bubba.
On this day you’ve brought him to the station to see where you work, hoping he’ll be proud, too. He seems less than impressed. The truth is, he’s intimidated. You don’t know this, though, because you can see yourself only through his eyes. A lesson you will have to learn again and again: to see yourself with your own eyes, to love yourself from your own heart.You’ve spent too many days and years trying to please others and be what they wanted you to be. You will have to learn that the wounds of your past—rape, molestation, whippings for “stepping out of place,” and not being allowed to show anger or cry afterward—damaged your self-esteem. Yet through it all, you’ve held on to a belief in God and God’s belief in you.
That will be your single greatest gift: knowing there is a power greater than yourself and trusting that Force to guide you.
The trajectory of your life changed the day you answered the call from Chris Clark, the news director at WLAC-TV. Your response was ignited by the words of your then-favorite Bible verse, Philippians 3:14. “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Knowing there is a “high calling” is what will sustain and fulfill you.From where I sit now, viewing your journey, there are few regrets. Only months before this picture was taken, you wrote a poem about a “woman becoming.” Even then you understood that success was a process and that moving with the flow of life and not against it would be your greatest achievement.
Love you deeply,
Oprah
March282012
Foot In Mouth Disease: Geraldo Rivera Edition
His apology didn’t help either.
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