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Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia. April 25, 2024. (via @everydayisjuneteenth)

“This joy that I have the world didn’t give it to me. The world didn’t give it. The world can’t take it away.”

#undeniable #neotai's song #free palestine #this video has really shaken something awake in me #the student protestors are everything #the resistance are everything #this is love empathy and courage in full effect #master teacher #this black woman is everything #the 🐷 carrying her away the looks on their faces #the look on these brothers faces #strength and love to this protestor and all the protestors the world over #the world can’t take it away #stop cop city

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"And I think its a really fearful time for young writers with a bellyful of fire. It's a fearful time cos if you listen to the voices (the market forces, the distractions) you're not going to get fire out of you, you're going to get water out of you. But for godssake, I want you to get fire out of you and that's why we've been having this conversation, to reawaken the fire, the wonder, the splendour, the misery, the mystery, why is it we write?

We don't write to be polite on the page. We don't write to get nods in the mind. We write to explode the inner rooms of people. So that the rooms in which they read, opens out into the whole world and they feel the radiance touching everybody and they can feel for one moment, that they can be anything or nothing if they chose to be, but just to be hit by that extraordinary vigour and power that a true piece of writing - whether its a sonnet, whether it's a poem of four lines by Rilke, whether it's a short story by your beloved Chekov, whether it's a punch by Toni Morrison or a head-butt by Ralph Ellison, that's what we want. We want the raw, fire.

(Thats what we were trying to contribute to here) you shouldn't pay any attention to the market forces, we should write from our spirits, whether that gets published, I don't know how we break that hegemony, I don't know how we do that. (how do you get a contract? how do you pay your bills? how do you pay your rent? how do you feed your children? - There was a time when writers formed co-operatives and published each others works, that's gone now that's all disappeared) He (Cornel) talks about being a prisoner of hope, me too, as far as literature."

Ben Okri in conversation with Cornell West, University of Cambridge, 2013

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Via @zenah.mattar

Ally or liability?

#real talk fr fr #undeniable #neotai's song #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #master teacher

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Dahomey (2024) dir. Mati Diop

Mati Diop (Atlantics) just won the Golden Bear at Berlin and shouted “I stand with Palestine!” as she accepted her award. Her film deals with the returning of plundered royal treasures from the African Kingdom of Dahomey from Paris to the present day Republic of Benin.

#undeniable #neotai's song #mati diop #master teacher #free gaza #free palestine #Palestine #dahomey #cinema #German arts scene revealed itself to be deeply anti Palestinian and even more racist and Islamophobic than previously thought #cutting funding for anyone who dares to speak out about palestine so this was a great venue for Palestine to be mentioned within... #Germany standing on the wrong side of history…again and again...but german activists outchea raising hell... #you saw how they turned hilary clinton's cinema for peace (the AUDACITYYYYY) event upside down #MUCH RESPECT TO THOSE ACTIVISTS #and to mati showing out #look forward to seeing the movie as atlantics was dope and needs a rewatch tbh #the 'after atlantics' marketing is dope cos black artists are so often cut off from their own continuity and context by the establishment #movies

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#via niyyahboutique #undeniable #neotai's song

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#undeniable #neotai's song #master teacher #nina simone #Palestine #congo #Sudan #free gaza #free palestine

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1. jordxn.simone 2. Shayoni Mitra 3. Karen Attiah

We HAVE to keep our attention where it matters. dont let these horrors go unnoticed

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Just found out that Beyoncé dropped new music during the superbowl…Empire bringing out its very best weapons of mass distraction as they bomb Rafah to pieces…hoping we all stay fixed on new shiny things

#undeniable #neotai's song #free gaza #free palestine #praying for rafah #rafah #beyonce #palestine #American militarism is American consumerism is American entertainment

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Jujutsu Kaisen Cover

#undeniable #neotai's song #anime #manga #jujutsu kaisen

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and to be grateful for what i have and the love bestowed upon me...

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Palestinians defending their land in the 1930s

#undeniable #neotai's song #free gaza #free palestine #Palestine #Gaza #anti blackness #swag is insane #may god be with them always

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Anti-Israel Columbia University Tent Encampment

“A message to the scum of nations and pigs of the earth: paradise lies in the shadow of swords”

“Glory to those who make the occupiers taste bitterness”

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Viola Esmeralda Grappiolo (2023) by Florian Moshammer

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via Harmony Holiday Twitter

It's once again Nina Simone's birthday and the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X

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Via @thecollectress

the last page of this is INCREDIBLE and it articulates what I’ve been really struggling with verbalising, dreams being oaths to capitalism and recognising our gifts and seeing value in resistance and attractiveness in liberation and also we need to recapture black rage which we’ve silenced for a cheque or again for admittance to play on the periphery of white supremacist capitalist institutions platforms and companies the world over…collectress is incredible and i recommend her ig so much insight and food for thought clarity and honesty

#undeniable #neotai's song #master teacher #free gaza #free palestine #anti blackness #incredible critique #Palestine #Gaza #motaz #bisan

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Hatem & Lama (Gaza, Palestine) by steph_draws_stuff

#free gaza #free palestine #palestinian journalists #Hatem #lama_jamous9 #undeniable #neotai's song

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Gaza will haunt you 4 ever.

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