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Tag Archives: personal wealth
The Parable of Teaspoons & Bulldozers
“With my teaspoon and determination I have found my way to the path my great grandparents cleared for me. I proudly embrace my lineage and overstand the instructions that came with my teaspoon. I have decided to be a hero. I will widen the path. I will leave signs. I will till the dirt my family tree grows in with my teaspoon. ” Continue reading
So THIS is transformation–
I know my role. I am an interlocutor .
I am a craftsperson, an artisan. I create. My tools are word and story. I am an interrogator I listen. I speak. I question. I hold our place in conversation. It is my gift, my task, my purpose in this awareness. Continue reading
Sans Ports– (General Poetics 2011)
learning to write after newports— one word at a time like the coffin I was building one smoke at a time u can’t have my rhymes quit to flow on learning after smoking is a long slow curve like the … Continue reading
Posted in Life., Performing Arts, Poetry, spokenword
Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, inspiration, life lessons, personal wealth
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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 18
I create. That’s my religion. I am the builder in my parable of the builder. I have learned to make what I need. I have learned to build for the sake of building. I have discovered that I am increased even when the gardens are for others. I understand the moral in the parable of "The Parables of the Talents". Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 14
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
Posted in Black Arts, Craft, journal, Life., Performing Arts, Poetry, Theater
Tagged aspirations, ayodele nzinga, commodities, creativity, nation building, personal wealth, perspective, the ground on which I stand, theater
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Diary of a Mad Creative: I create therefore I am. Pt. 13
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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Tagged ayodele nzinga, inspiration, life lessons, motivation, personal wealth, theater, wordslanger
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A pocket full of Cowrie
Sometimes you see yourself and it’s like you have been missing yourself. You are surprised by the reflection in the mirror.We spend so much time chasing goals. We reach one and barely stop to savor its sweetness before we begin … Continue reading
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Tagged ayo nzinga, cowrie shells, personal wealth, perspective, short essay, wordslanger
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