By Barbra
Look at how she looks at me,
I can never look at her that way...
Full of all the feelings and the soft
Unspoken words that lovers say...
In all the words, in all the books
I wish there were a way to say that
What she's taught me
Isn't written anywhere
And I'm supposed to be the one
Who's wise...
One thing is certain,
I can never be what she
Expects of me...
I've wanted the shadows,
I don't anymore.
No matter what happens,
I won't anymore
I've run from the sunlight-
Afraid it saw too much.
The moon had the one light
I bathed in-
I walked in.
I held in my feelings
And closed every door.
No matter what happens.
I can't anymore.
There's someone who must hear
The words I've never spoken.
Tonight if he were here
My silence would be broken.
I need him to touch me-
To know the love that's in my heart-
The same heart that tells me
To see myself-
To free myself-
To be myself at last!
For too many mornings
The curtains were drawn.
It's time they were opened
To welcome the dawn.
A voice deep inside
Is getting stronger,
I can't keep it quiet any longer.
No matter what happens,
It can't be the same anymore...
I promise it won't be the same
Anymore!
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Didn't We?
by Barbra
This time we almost
Made the pieces fit
Didn’t we, love?
This time we almost
Made some sense of it
Hum... didn’t we, love?
This time I had the answer
Right here in my hand
Then I touched it
And it had turned to sand
This time we almost
Sang our song in tune
Didn’t we, love?
This time we almost
Made it, made it
To the moon
Oh, didn’t we, love?
This time we almost
Made a poem rhyme
This time we almost
Made that long hard climb
Didn’t we almost
Make it?
Didn’t we almost
Make it?
Didn’t we almost
Make it?
This time...
This time we almost
Made the pieces fit
Didn’t we, love?
This time we almost
Made some sense of it
Hum... didn’t we, love?
This time I had the answer
Right here in my hand
Then I touched it
And it had turned to sand
This time we almost
Sang our song in tune
Didn’t we, love?
This time we almost
Made it, made it
To the moon
Oh, didn’t we, love?
This time we almost
Made a poem rhyme
This time we almost
Made that long hard climb
Didn’t we almost
Make it?
Didn’t we almost
Make it?
Didn’t we almost
Make it?
This time...
COMO TE GUSTA MI PINGA from "Trick"
I told my friend the writer how happy I would be
If he'd write an opening number especially for me
But when he had it finished, it came as quite a shock
He handed me a song titled "How do you like my...."
I said "You can't do that in public",
I said even I wouldn't dare
So he made a few small changes,
Now I can sing it anywhere:
Como te gusta mi pinga en tus pantelones
Como te gusta mi pinga y mis cojones
It's the same old thing and the same old hole
But when you say it espanol it sounds divine
Como te gusta mi pinga, es muy caliente
Como te gusta mi pinga, es grande plente
You don't go around shouting, "You're well hung"
But when you do it in another tongue, it's just divine
When the hour is late and I don't have a date
And I feel that I can't go on
I lift up my head and I stick out my chin
And I talk like Montalban -
Como te gusta mi pinga, it sounds so neat-o
Like a warm quesadilla or a pork burrito
It's the same old cheese, and the same old meat
But when it has a latin beat, it's okay
Como te gusta mi pinga - Ole...! Ay! Ay!
If he'd write an opening number especially for me
But when he had it finished, it came as quite a shock
He handed me a song titled "How do you like my...."
I said "You can't do that in public",
I said even I wouldn't dare
So he made a few small changes,
Now I can sing it anywhere:
Como te gusta mi pinga en tus pantelones
Como te gusta mi pinga y mis cojones
It's the same old thing and the same old hole
But when you say it espanol it sounds divine
Como te gusta mi pinga, es muy caliente
Como te gusta mi pinga, es grande plente
You don't go around shouting, "You're well hung"
But when you do it in another tongue, it's just divine
When the hour is late and I don't have a date
And I feel that I can't go on
I lift up my head and I stick out my chin
And I talk like Montalban -
Como te gusta mi pinga, it sounds so neat-o
Like a warm quesadilla or a pork burrito
It's the same old cheese, and the same old meat
But when it has a latin beat, it's okay
Como te gusta mi pinga - Ole...! Ay! Ay!
Friday, May 05, 2006
Great News!
The U.N. is vigorously interrogating the United States over its secret prisons and torture policies. I think this is a vital step in putting a check on human rights abuses that are occuring under this administration and its fascist policies.
An Occurrence That Really Set One Over On Me
When I was still living in Alabama, I was talking to this lovely Black boy that lived in Mobile--he was about 26 then and was teaching. He liked me a lot and I liked him. He wanted to meet me--and so---although I hesitantly agreed--he drove four hours to meet me--after only having talked for about a week or so---and before he got to my house I told him to go back--because my parents were home and it would have been awkward. I absolutely regret that to this day....and it has set the bar a bit.
What You See is What You Get
The Dramatics
Some people are made of plastic.
You know some people are made of wood.
Some people have hearts of stone.
You know some people are up to no good.
But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get.
If what you're lookin' for is real love then
What you see is what you get.
What you see (what you see)
Is what you get now (is what you get)
x2
Honey what you see is what you get,
and if you've found the real thing it's the best thing yet.
Some people are made of lies.
Breed them to shame your name.
But baby I have good intentions.
But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get.
If what you're lookin' for is real love then
What you see is what you get.
What you see (what you see)
Is what you get now (is what you get)
x2
Honey what you see is what you get,
and if you've found the real thing it's the best thing yet.
But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get.
If what you're lookin' for is real love then
What you see is what you get.
What you see (what you see)
Is what you get now (is what you get)
x2
Honey what you see is what you get,
and if you've found the real thing it's the best thing yet.
Some people are made of plastic.
You know some people are made of wood.
Some people have hearts of stone.
You know some people are up to no good.
But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get.
If what you're lookin' for is real love then
What you see is what you get.
What you see (what you see)
Is what you get now (is what you get)
x2
Honey what you see is what you get,
and if you've found the real thing it's the best thing yet.
Some people are made of lies.
Breed them to shame your name.
But baby I have good intentions.
But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get.
If what you're lookin' for is real love then
What you see is what you get.
What you see (what you see)
Is what you get now (is what you get)
x2
Honey what you see is what you get,
and if you've found the real thing it's the best thing yet.
But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get.
If what you're lookin' for is real love then
What you see is what you get.
What you see (what you see)
Is what you get now (is what you get)
x2
Honey what you see is what you get,
and if you've found the real thing it's the best thing yet.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Correction
Uncle Wade didn't go to Morgan State University, he went to Wayne State University. He tried to get me to go there.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Great Turn Out In Chicago
300,000 were in the streets of Chicago today for the Day Without Immigrants boycott and protest!!
I am IN LOVE with Evo Morales!!!!
Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, has threatened to expel foreign oil companies if they refuse to hand over the oil fields to the state. I hope he kicks out Exxon Mobil!!! I absolutely adore the man. In conjunction to this, I want to proclaim my excitement over Venezuala, Bolivia, and Cuba'srejection of the U.S.'s trade plan. God bless Castro! God Bless Chavez! God Bless Morales!
One Must Read this Beatufiul Interview with Helene Cixous
This is an interview entitled Guardian of Language done by Kathleen O'Grady with Helene Cixous in 1996. Quite a powerful essay.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Incident
Someone tore the bumper sticker off of my door that had an american flag on it and read "These colors don't rule the world."
A Day Without Immigrants
On May 1, we are calling No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying, and also to have rallies around symbols of economic trade in your areas (stock exchanges, anti-immigrant corporations, etc.) to protest the anti-immigrant movements across the country.
On May 1, we will wear "white" a T-Shirt and/or white arm bands, we can paint and write our political demands (and creative arts) at the T-shirt go to rally, protest, strike, vigil, work or school--we will have a ocean of white T-shirts with our political demands from east coast to west coast, at the street, work place, school, bus station & store... and our voice will be LOUD AND CLEAR AND CANNOT BE SILENT FOR EVER!
We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the U.S. We believe that increased enforcement is a step in the wrong direction and will only serve to facilitate more tragedies along the Mexican-U.S. border in terms of deaths and family separation.
On May 1, we will wear "white" a T-Shirt and/or white arm bands, we can paint and write our political demands (and creative arts) at the T-shirt go to rally, protest, strike, vigil, work or school--we will have a ocean of white T-shirts with our political demands from east coast to west coast, at the street, work place, school, bus station & store... and our voice will be LOUD AND CLEAR AND CANNOT BE SILENT FOR EVER!
We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the U.S. We believe that increased enforcement is a step in the wrong direction and will only serve to facilitate more tragedies along the Mexican-U.S. border in terms of deaths and family separation.
Go Away Little Boy--I Love This Song
by Marlena Shaw
How can I express to you the joy I felt, when I thought I’d found the perfect man for me. A man who could make feel the way I felt a woman should feel, umph, umph, umph. I said, darlin’, I’m gonna be the perfect woman for you. I went out and bought myself a three years subscription to Essence Magazine, read it from cover to cover, now you know I wanted to be perfect for him.
Well suh, he quit his job. He came home one day with 14 mirrors, some afro-sheen, some afro- glean, some afro-clean, some afro-fluid, some afro do-it to-it, he gon sit up in the room and look at the black is beautiful all day!
I said, ummmmm, "my darling, I hate to get all into your business, ya know what I mean, but uh, what about a job? What about the gas? What about the electricity bills"? You know what he said, "you working ain’t cha"? "Woman git off my back"!
I don’t know y’all, ya see, I wasn’t raised like that. The way I was raised, every able body in the household’s supposed to git up, and go out, at least looking for a job, ya know what I mean? So I laid it on the line to him. I said something like ahhh, "if you’ve come to realise, that you can no longer be the man that I thought you were at the beginning of our relationship". "Then I got this one thing to lay on you my sweet".
Go away little boy
Why just don’t you just go away little boy.
Ya see, I am not supposed to sit up there all alone in the dark with all them mirrors and no
money and no you oooooooooooooooo.
Now I know, I understand, I can testify to the fact that your lips are
awwwwwwww, ooooooooo, so sweet.
But it don’t look like our lips are ever gonna ever have another chance to meet
I think I can find myself another man.
And I’ll know what to do when I find me somebody who can be true.
Go away little boy, then I said...................
Let the doorknob hit cha where the dog should of bit cha little boy.
Cause you’re hurting me more every minute that you delay
Cause when you’re near me like this
Whoa baby , umph, you’re getting kinda hard to understand, so my man,
Why don’t you run on away, just run on away, just run on away little boy
Before I do something rash
Ohhhhhhh why don’t you run, run run run run on away little boy
Find yourself another set of solo strings little boy
Cause you’re hurting me more, every minute, every minute that you delay, ehh, ehhhhhhhh.
I said, I said, I said, when you’re near me, when you’re near me,
When you are close up tight like this, ohhhh baby
You’re getting kinda hard to resist, so my man
Why doncha, why doncha just run on away little boy
We got ta call it a day little boy, I said, run away little boy, before I beg you to stay.
How can I express to you the joy I felt, when I thought I’d found the perfect man for me. A man who could make feel the way I felt a woman should feel, umph, umph, umph. I said, darlin’, I’m gonna be the perfect woman for you. I went out and bought myself a three years subscription to Essence Magazine, read it from cover to cover, now you know I wanted to be perfect for him.
Well suh, he quit his job. He came home one day with 14 mirrors, some afro-sheen, some afro- glean, some afro-clean, some afro-fluid, some afro do-it to-it, he gon sit up in the room and look at the black is beautiful all day!
I said, ummmmm, "my darling, I hate to get all into your business, ya know what I mean, but uh, what about a job? What about the gas? What about the electricity bills"? You know what he said, "you working ain’t cha"? "Woman git off my back"!
I don’t know y’all, ya see, I wasn’t raised like that. The way I was raised, every able body in the household’s supposed to git up, and go out, at least looking for a job, ya know what I mean? So I laid it on the line to him. I said something like ahhh, "if you’ve come to realise, that you can no longer be the man that I thought you were at the beginning of our relationship". "Then I got this one thing to lay on you my sweet".
Go away little boy
Why just don’t you just go away little boy.
Ya see, I am not supposed to sit up there all alone in the dark with all them mirrors and no
money and no you oooooooooooooooo.
Now I know, I understand, I can testify to the fact that your lips are
awwwwwwww, ooooooooo, so sweet.
But it don’t look like our lips are ever gonna ever have another chance to meet
I think I can find myself another man.
And I’ll know what to do when I find me somebody who can be true.
Go away little boy, then I said...................
Let the doorknob hit cha where the dog should of bit cha little boy.
Cause you’re hurting me more every minute that you delay
Cause when you’re near me like this
Whoa baby , umph, you’re getting kinda hard to understand, so my man,
Why don’t you run on away, just run on away, just run on away little boy
Before I do something rash
Ohhhhhhh why don’t you run, run run run run on away little boy
Find yourself another set of solo strings little boy
Cause you’re hurting me more, every minute, every minute that you delay, ehh, ehhhhhhhh.
I said, I said, I said, when you’re near me, when you’re near me,
When you are close up tight like this, ohhhh baby
You’re getting kinda hard to resist, so my man
Why doncha, why doncha just run on away little boy
We got ta call it a day little boy, I said, run away little boy, before I beg you to stay.
Tonight is the NIght
Betty Wright
First of all I’d like to say good evening
And we’re so pleased that
So many of you could come out and share
In all the love and all the happiness we have in store for you
We want you to have a real good time
‘Cause that’s just what we have in mind
Is that alright with you
Now, this is a tune that I composed
And it’s called
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman
Now I never intended recording this song
It was a personal poem
This is until the day that my producer
Happened to thumb through the pages of my notebook
He came across the words and he said
“We got to somethin’ with these words
It’s happening every day
And people wanna hear about it, Betty”
You see, it’s the story of a young girl
Making love for the very first time
Now when I finally got a melody
I took it home and I-I played it for my mother
Now I got to tell you a little bit about my mother
You see I come from one of those pretty large families
And I’m the baby of the family
And you know you never grow up to your mother
I’ll never forget the way she looked at me when I played it for her
She said, “Uh, I like the music
You know, baby, the melody it’s really nice
But I know you’re not gonna sing that song”
But we eased it right on by, yes, we did
And it became one of my biggest records too
So I want you to do this for me if you will
Everybody think back to your very first time
Now I’ll give you a little while longer
‘Cause I know some of you
Have to think back a little further than others
Come on now, I want you to play catch-up
‘Cause I don’t want you waitin’ till I get to the end of my song
Sayin’, “Oh, yeah, now I remember”
Now whether it was good
Or you just smilin’ it was good
Or on the other hand if it was not so good
Here’s my story
Hmm...hmm...mmm...mmm...
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman, mmm...
You said you’ll be gentle with me
And I-I hope you will, mmm...mmm...
I’m nervous and I’m tremblin’
Waitin’ for you to walk in
I’m tryin’ hard to relax
But I just can’t keep still, no
I can hear your car door slammin’
I wanna play big girl and put on a sexy smile
But I know so little about what love is
I just can’t help actin’ like a child
You’re knockin’ on my door and you’re ringin’ my bell
Hope you’re not impatient after waiting so very long
A whole year I put you off with my silly hang-ups
And we’re both old enough to know right from wrong
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman, mmm...
You said you’ll be gentle with me
And I-I hope you will, hmm...mmm...
I’m nervous and I’m tremblin’
Waitin’ for you to walk in
Tryin’ hard to relax
But I just can’t keep still
Mmm...hey, baby
Ho, ho, baby
Ho...yeah...yeah...
Oh, but what if my mama should come home early
And catch us doin’ what we’re doin’
Not only will I never live it down
But my whole family relationship it’ll all be ruined
But we’ve gone a little bit too far now
Oh, to turn around
So let’s just pray
That true love is what we’ve found
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Ho, I’ll never forget tonight
No, no, I’ll never forget tonight
That’s when you make me feel real, mmm...hmm...
You make me feel real, real good
Oh...oh...whoa...oh...oh...whoa...whoa...
Yeah, and I wanna thank your love
Said I’ve got to thank your love
‘Cause you make me feel good
And I love you, baby
I love you and I know it
And I ain’t too proud to show it
‘Cause I love you, baby
And I need you, baby
I want you, my love, my love
My, my, my baby
I’ll never forget tonight
No, I’ll never forget tonight
‘Cause you make me feel good
And I love you, baby
You make me feel real good
And I love you, baby
‘Cause you gave me
Uh, uh, pure love, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, pure love
Said I like that, baby
Uh, uh, pure love
Said I need that, sugar
Uh-uh-uh, pure love
There’s nothin’ phony about it
Uh-uh, pure love
Your love I can’t do without it
Uh-uh-uh, pure love, ooh
I love him, I know it
I ain’t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
I ain’t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
I ain’t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
And I ain’t too proud to show it
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Mmm...mmm...mmm...
Thank you
Thank you
First of all I’d like to say good evening
And we’re so pleased that
So many of you could come out and share
In all the love and all the happiness we have in store for you
We want you to have a real good time
‘Cause that’s just what we have in mind
Is that alright with you
Now, this is a tune that I composed
And it’s called
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman
Now I never intended recording this song
It was a personal poem
This is until the day that my producer
Happened to thumb through the pages of my notebook
He came across the words and he said
“We got to somethin’ with these words
It’s happening every day
And people wanna hear about it, Betty”
You see, it’s the story of a young girl
Making love for the very first time
Now when I finally got a melody
I took it home and I-I played it for my mother
Now I got to tell you a little bit about my mother
You see I come from one of those pretty large families
And I’m the baby of the family
And you know you never grow up to your mother
I’ll never forget the way she looked at me when I played it for her
She said, “Uh, I like the music
You know, baby, the melody it’s really nice
But I know you’re not gonna sing that song”
But we eased it right on by, yes, we did
And it became one of my biggest records too
So I want you to do this for me if you will
Everybody think back to your very first time
Now I’ll give you a little while longer
‘Cause I know some of you
Have to think back a little further than others
Come on now, I want you to play catch-up
‘Cause I don’t want you waitin’ till I get to the end of my song
Sayin’, “Oh, yeah, now I remember”
Now whether it was good
Or you just smilin’ it was good
Or on the other hand if it was not so good
Here’s my story
Hmm...hmm...mmm...mmm...
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman, mmm...
You said you’ll be gentle with me
And I-I hope you will, mmm...mmm...
I’m nervous and I’m tremblin’
Waitin’ for you to walk in
I’m tryin’ hard to relax
But I just can’t keep still, no
I can hear your car door slammin’
I wanna play big girl and put on a sexy smile
But I know so little about what love is
I just can’t help actin’ like a child
You’re knockin’ on my door and you’re ringin’ my bell
Hope you’re not impatient after waiting so very long
A whole year I put you off with my silly hang-ups
And we’re both old enough to know right from wrong
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman, mmm...
You said you’ll be gentle with me
And I-I hope you will, hmm...mmm...
I’m nervous and I’m tremblin’
Waitin’ for you to walk in
Tryin’ hard to relax
But I just can’t keep still
Mmm...hey, baby
Ho, ho, baby
Ho...yeah...yeah...
Oh, but what if my mama should come home early
And catch us doin’ what we’re doin’
Not only will I never live it down
But my whole family relationship it’ll all be ruined
But we’ve gone a little bit too far now
Oh, to turn around
So let’s just pray
That true love is what we’ve found
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Ho, I’ll never forget tonight
No, no, I’ll never forget tonight
That’s when you make me feel real, mmm...hmm...
You make me feel real, real good
Oh...oh...whoa...oh...oh...whoa...whoa...
Yeah, and I wanna thank your love
Said I’ve got to thank your love
‘Cause you make me feel good
And I love you, baby
I love you and I know it
And I ain’t too proud to show it
‘Cause I love you, baby
And I need you, baby
I want you, my love, my love
My, my, my baby
I’ll never forget tonight
No, I’ll never forget tonight
‘Cause you make me feel good
And I love you, baby
You make me feel real good
And I love you, baby
‘Cause you gave me
Uh, uh, pure love, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, pure love
Said I like that, baby
Uh, uh, pure love
Said I need that, sugar
Uh-uh-uh, pure love
There’s nothin’ phony about it
Uh-uh, pure love
Your love I can’t do without it
Uh-uh-uh, pure love, ooh
I love him, I know it
I ain’t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
I ain’t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
I ain’t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
And I ain’t too proud to show it
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Mmm...mmm...mmm...
Thank you
Thank you
300,000 March Against the War in New York
April 29th, 2006
Organizers estimate 300,000 at anti-war march in Manhattan
NEW YORK (AP) - New York police aren't giving a size estimate on the crowd,
but organizers claim 300-thousand people turned out for an anti-war protest
in Manhattan today.
Protesters are calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
One of the many signs in the crowd read "End this war, bring the troops
home." Another read "Veterans for Peace."
One woman who marched says she "had a lot of anger" and has to do something.
Marjori Ramos of Staten Island said, "we've been lied to."
The demonstrators stretched for about ten city blocks. There were no
arrests.
The protest comes as April draws to a close as the deadliest month for
American forces in Iraq this year.
Organizers estimate 300,000 at anti-war march in Manhattan
NEW YORK (AP) - New York police aren't giving a size estimate on the crowd,
but organizers claim 300-thousand people turned out for an anti-war protest
in Manhattan today.
Protesters are calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
One of the many signs in the crowd read "End this war, bring the troops
home." Another read "Veterans for Peace."
One woman who marched says she "had a lot of anger" and has to do something.
Marjori Ramos of Staten Island said, "we've been lied to."
The demonstrators stretched for about ten city blocks. There were no
arrests.
The protest comes as April draws to a close as the deadliest month for
American forces in Iraq this year.
Hooray!!
Hooray for Evo Morales for standing up to the United States and joining forces with Venezuela and Cuba for progress!!!
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