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Sage is such an important part of my life now. After every disagreement, rough day, hard to bare moments, I walk around our place with burning sage and it destroys all negativity. Love it. #sage #meditation #cleanse
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Lauryn Hill Ordered by the Court to Undergo “Counseling” Due to her “Conspiracy Theories”
The name of Lauryn Hill’s breakout album was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill but it now appears that the powers that be would like her to record a new album called The Re-Education of Lauryn Hill. After appearing in court for tax evasion, Hill was sentenced to three months in jail PLUS she must attend “counseling” due to her “conspiracy theories”.
According to the IBTimes, Hill told the court: “I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me.” Furthermore, Hill also believes that artists are being oppressed by (what the article calls) “a plot involving the military and media”. Because of these statements, Hill was ordered to undergo “counseling”, which is a way of saying that she is mentally ill and that she needs some sort of re-programming session regain “sanity”.
In 2012, Hill published a thoughtful letter describing the corruption, the oppression and the control of the music industry and her desire to escape it.  In one part of the letter, Lauryn states
“It was this schism and the hypocrisy, violence and social cannibalism it enabled, that I wanted and needed to be freed from, not from art or music, but the suppression/repression and reduction of that art and music to a bottom line alone, without regard for anything else.  Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual.  I Love making art, I Love making music, these are as natural and necessary for me almost as breathing or talking.  To be denied the right to pursue it according to my ability, as well as be properly acknowledged and compensated for it, in an attempt to control, is manipulation directed at my most basic rights!  These forms of expression, along with others, effectively comprise my free speech!  Defending, preserving, and protecting these rights are critically important, especially in a paradigm where veiled racism, sexism, ageism, nepotism, and deliberate economic control are still blatant realities!!!”
(See my article entitled Lauryn Hill’s Tumblr Letter on the Music Business for the full letter).

wow, way to fucking delegitimize and pathologize the experiences of a Black woman by abusing mental health resources and language to avoid the real shit she brings up. 

Conspiracy theories because oppression is not real.

…power

That feeling you get when that person or group of people come around you feel no urge to talk to. You feel your insides shutting down and all the convincing you do inside your mind about how you’ll be nice, smile, remain your natural self and all other things positive seem to become a convo that never happened.

That is called giving way too much power to someone else.

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Everyone should give a second of there time to reblog this. Instead of reblog girls in crops tops. Just shows raw love.
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Early Christmas gift to self…
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**Spike Lee Movie Collection**
Crooklyn-Click to Watch
Clockers-Click to Watch
Malcolm X-Click to Watch
He Got Game-Click to Watch
Jungle Fever-Click to Watch
Inside Man-Click to Watch
Miracle St Ana-Click to Watch
Summer of Sam-Click to Watch
25th Hour-Click to Watch
Bamboozled-Click to Watch
School Daze-Click to Watch
Girl 6-Click to Watch


This post is now diamonds.

Some good ish in here. Spike Lee use to be everything I needed in a filmmaker.



Tumblr you given me a lot of things but this


bless it!!!