February 2012
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not...”
– Nina Simone.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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“all sorts of people who became famous would visit us, young artists, broadway...”
– andy stroud quoted in the fader wear your inspiration with a nina simone t shirt by griot apparel
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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happy birthday dr. nina simone! →
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know? Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make...”
– Thelonious Monk.  
Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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“Wrong is right.”
– Thelonious Monk.  
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 6th
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Afrobeat for Freedom: Nigeria's First Family of... →
Feb 6th
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January 2012
22 posts
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
– Frida Kahlo
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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The Walt Whitman Archive →
Jan 13th
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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
– Walt Whitman
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am...”
– Frida Kahlo
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I...”
– Frida Kahlo
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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Happy 2012!  →
Jan 1st
December 2011
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Dec 31st
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thank you, 2011.  →
Dec 31st
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For...”
– Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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