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Truth is in all circumstances more valuable than untruth, and this must apply to truth in the realm of history as to other kinds of truth.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Taken for The "I Have to Shoot What?!" 52-Week Challenge - Week 8: "Still Life"
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Model: Xiue Yalin
Hair:: Truth Hair - Denee - Browns05
Earrings:: [MANDALA] CHaraChara earrings/Red
Dress:: Zaara : [Mesh] Runa knotted dress *ruby*
Lashes:: Miamai_Catwalk Lashes_Glitter 01
Skin:: MOJO - SICILY - 01 CHESTNUT
Eyes:: Poetic Colors - October wind (l) dark
the naked truth about this shitful religion of "love and peace"
You can see their tolerance and love of liberty here
born 1797 as Isabella Baumfree
At the turn of the 19th century, New York started legislating emancipation, but it would take over two decades for liberation to come for all enslaved people in the state.
In the meantime, the ten "master" Dumont promised Isabella he’d grant her freedom on July 4, 1826, “if she would do well and be faithful.” When the date arrived, however, he had a change of heart and refused to let her go.
Incensed, Isabella completed what she felt was her obligation to Dumont and then escaped his clutches, infant daughter in tow. She later said, “I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.”
After the New York Anti-Slavery Law was passed, Dumont illegally sold Isabella’s five-year-old son Peter. With the help of the Van Wagenens, she filed a lawsuit to get him back.
Months later, Isabella won her case and regained custody of her son. She was the first Black woman to sue a white man in a United States court and prevail.
In later years, her [famous words were distorted] to “Ain’t I a Woman?”, reflecting the false belief that as a formerly enslaved woman, Truth would have had a Southern accent. Truth was, in fact, a proud New Yorker.
exhibit: Faith Ringgold: American People
de Young Museum, San Francisco
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Sean Risley
He works for Truth an anti-smoking campaign and was out on the Warped Tour doing his job. Me and my friend were gonna go up to him to talk but he kinda walked off before we got the chance :(
Theres always next warped!
Better Brothers Los Angeles teamed up with the Diva Foundation at the historic Wilshire Ebel Theater in Los Angeles.
The event is sponsored by Gilead, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and the generous support of businessman and activist Gerard McCallum.
The Truth Awards will benefit the DIVA Foundation and its partnership with Better Brothers LA with several initiatives aimed at affirming and strengthening the African American LGBTQ community educationally, financially, physically and socially. Proceeds will also benefit the Better Brothers LA Book Scholarship and other programming needs of the organization. For more information about the organization and its scholarship program
ABOUT BETTER BROTHERS LOS ANGELES
Better Brothers Los Angeles was created to provide spaces for Black gay men to network, socialize and be BETTER – at life, love and community. Developing a sense of community has been a challenge for some Black gay men, given the cultural and religious opposition to their sexual orientation. As those challenges have receded in mainstream society, they still present significant difficulties and constrain a sense of well-being for Black gay men within the Black community. Better Brothers Los Angeles has sponsored cultural, recreational, and social/networking events, and continues to create a community where Black gay men and women can walk with a greater sense of confidence and pride. Visit www.BetterBrothersLA.com
ABOUT THE DIVA FOUNDATION
The DIVA Foundation -- founded in 1990 by Tony-nominated actress and HIV/AIDS advocate Sheryl Lee Ralph -- is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, created as a living memorial to the many friends she lost to HIV/AIDS as an original cast member of the Broadway musical “Dreamgirls,” and because of her concern for the threat HIV/AIDS posed to women and children. Over the years, the DIVA Foundation has worked to break the silence and erase the stigma still connected to HIV/AIDS and encourage people to get tested in order to know their HIV status.
Graffiti in Selly oak in Birmingham
The phrase "HOW MUCH MORE CAN YOU TAKE?" struck a chord with me and I have used it a couple of times in my poetry
Truth.
Wisdom
scribbled in chalk: canal-side veracity, flourishing
with weeded growth’s tenacity, nourishing
new lives for old, raucous voices, city choices,
echo loud and bold.
Words
adorning wire and fence by field and wood and moor:
Keep Out, Private, Trespassers Will…
threaten, bluster, warn, but make no sense,
where freedom beckons on the hill,
Trust:
designs in ink in childhood’s pocket, whorls and whirls
and circled thoughts, brain engendered, engineered, your secret,
if we could unlock it, of you and how you search and think,
for patterns shatter, patterns break.
Truth
daubed in paint by urban youth, brushed brashly
over a faded palimpsest on inner-city walls.
Players in the half-light: modern voices ask
how much more can you take?
(Selected for National Poetry anthology and
published by United Press Ltd 2011)