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Unwritten (From the collection INK)
unless you can write food on a plate words on paper have little to do with empty bellies bloated as if hunger were a being growing in the vacuum drawing flies to eyes puckering brows painting something that has … Continue reading
INK
. it don’t signify
like blue black wrinkled old men
in stingy brims
teeth clenching 5 dollar cigars
breath smelling of gin and knowing
from a distance
whose eyes grin
as they eloquently explode
divine curses
like corks from aged wine
you gotta shake ya head
so it don’t hit ya Continue reading
Posted in INK, North American African Perspective, Performing Arts, Poetry, spokenword, Uncategorized, work in progress
Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, black arts, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective, poems, spokenword, wordslanger, work in progress, writing
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That New Millennium Dime: The People, pt 3 installment#13
Part Three the people/we the people/my people asleep @ the wheel/ in the trunk of the car/ wolves driving the car/ /car full of sheep/ asleep/ my people/ sleeping on the bottom/bottom of the boat/sleeping on the ocean floor/my people … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Creative # 19: Precious and the State of the Arts (pt. 2 of The Ground on which I stand.)
“If you do not know, I will tell you that black theatre in America is alive … it is vibrant … it is vital … it just isn’t funded. Black theatre doesn’t share in the economics that would allow it to support its artists and supply them with meaningful avenues to develop their talent and broadcast and disseminate ideas crucial to its growth. The economics are reserved as privilege to the overwhelming abundance of institutions that preserve, promote and perpetuate white culture.
That is not a complaint. That is an advertisement. Since the funding sources, both public and private, do not publicly carry avowed missions of exclusion and segregated support, this is obviously either a glaring case of oversight, or we the proponents of black theatre have not made our presence or needs known.” August Wilson Continue reading
Posted in Black Arts, Craft, North American African Perspective, Performing Arts, Theater
Tagged aspirations, august wilson, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, black arts, creativity, inspiration, life lessons, lower bottom playaz, nation building, North American African Perspective, short essay, the ground on which I stand, the wire, theater, tyler perry
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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 17
Rehearsal is like prayer. It is the highest form of artistic meditation. It is where the privilege of presenting is earned. Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt 15
I have been wounded by Wilson and something is growing in the cut. Art should bruise, inspire, provoke, affirm, pose questions and soothe. Gem has done all that and Wilson is offering me more. I accept. Continue reading
Dairy of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am Pt. 12
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
Posted in Black Arts, Craft, journal, Life., Performing Arts, Theater
Tagged aspirations, august wilson, ayodele nzinga, black arts, gem of the ocean, inspiration, life lessons, lower bottom playaz, theater, wordslanger
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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Part 10
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
Posted in Black Arts, Craft, Life., Performing Arts, Theater
Tagged aspirations, august wilson, ayodele nzinga, black arts, creativity, gem of the ocean, inspiration, life lessons, lower bottom playaz, motivation, wordslanger
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That New Millennium Dime: The Dime
That New Millennium Dime; a work that interrogates the dawn of a new century in America and the era of its first North American African president. Continue reading →
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