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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 14

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

If you don’t decide where you stand you won’t know why you fell down. I deal in mental groceries. I want to feed my congregation. I don’t do fluff and I ain’t trying to cross over. If you want to … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 13

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

If it’s good make it better. There is no perfect; it’s just a direction we can walk in. Excellence. It’s an interesting word that begs the question according to whom to which I answer: Excelling to the degree that what is offered … Continue reading →

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Dairy of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am Pt. 12

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

We are who we say we are. Standing in the footlights paving a road others can follow. We are on the top of the mountain looking around at the terrain we have traveled. We are all need rest like air but for … Continue reading →

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Sunday Sermon for 10/10/10: The art of seeing the blessings.

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

I am blessed. I got good times and bad times just like you; but I stay blest. I am a blessing, seeing blessings all around, expecting blessing and constantly receiving them. If you woke up you are blessed, perhaps with nothing … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Part 10

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

The din of the Theater Godz is deafening; their roar stills the rest of the world.We are about to be born. The portal is opening. Zen time. Rubber meets road here, but the time to bemoan final fates is past. We … Continue reading →

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Dairy of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Part 8

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Yeah though I walk though the valley of shadow. I will remember to be the light. I will lead by example. Head high first into the fray; last to leave the field. I lead the charge by serving the story, the … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 7

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Blood on the stage. Well not on the stage but in the theater. No we’re not capping at each other… yet. We remain focused in the portal; we go forward in spite of all but the bumps of discord slamming incessantly at our container, … Continue reading →

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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt.6

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Its dark in the portal, as dark as the inside of the womb. We are being birthed. Its quite here except for the sound of rhythm pitched just above the hum of white noise. We are traveling faster than light; its impossible to calculate our … Continue reading →

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Sermon for 10/3/10: How will you be remembered?

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

When Mike Wallace asked Sister Thea Bowman how she would like to be remembered, she replied, “I want them to say: She tried.”
I want to be remembered for saying the words whispered in my ear.

Remember me swinging nouns and verbs like swords.
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Dairy of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt 5

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

How can all the damn roads be uphill?
Sometimes, shit just “is”. Continue reading →

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