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• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
• There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet.
• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
• Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960)
Zora Neale Hurston was a folklorist and writer. She was part of the Harlem Renaissance, but she never quite fit into the "black writer" stereotype and was "too black" for white audiences, so her work fell into obscurity.
The Harlem Renaissance was also called New Negro Movement, period of outstanding literary vigour and creativity that took place in the 1920s, changing the character of literature created by black Americans, from quaint dialect works and conventional imitations of white writers to sophisticated explorations of black life and culture that revealed and stimulated a new confidence and racial pride. The movement centred in the vast black ghetto of Harlem, in New York City, where aspiring black artists, writers, and musicians gathered, sharing their experiences and providing mutual encouragement.
Taken at Lake Manuwai just after New Years, a group of kids having a bit of a rave on the lake shore broke out in a harlem shake and had me in stitches!
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125th st and Broadway. New Years Day, 1975
Pentax Spotmatic. 100ASA. Tri-x film.
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger
Anti-Vietnam War protest in Harlem, USA -
New York City, borough of Manhattan, 1967
The photograph was taken by artist and activist Builder Levy.
The phrase originated from Muhammad Ali's explanation for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. Army, highlighting the irony of Black Americans fighting abroad for freedoms they lacked at home. Ali famously stated, "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people... They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me".
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Visiting Harlem was a great experience !
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Just messing around with the green screen effect its not perfect
Song Credit: Dave East - Dont Shoot
Part of the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbhors" art installation by artist Ai Weiwei, Harlem Shelter 1 is one of ten fence installations surrounding bus shelters in Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn. According to the artist the structures highlight the fundamental human right of free movement.
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American cultural and business center. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with crime and poverty, it is now experiencing social and economic gentrification. Harlem stretches from the East River to the Hudson River between 155th Street—where it meets Washington Heights—to a ragged border along the south. Central Harlem begins at 110th Street, at the northern boundary of Central Park; Spanish Harlem extends east Harlem's boundaries south to 96th Street, while in the west it begins north of Upper West Side, which gives an irregular border west of Morningside Avenue. Harlem's boundaries have changed over the years; as Ralph Ellison observed: "Wherever Negroes live uptown is considered Harlem."