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I will bring you a whole person
 and you will bring me a whole person 
and we will have us twice as much 
of love and everything I be bringing a whole heart 
and while it do have nicks and 
dents and scars, 
that only make me lay it down 
more careful-like
 An; you be bringing a whole heart 
a little chipped and rusty an’
 sometime skip a beat but 
still an’ all you bringing polish too 
and look like you intend 
to make it shine And we be bringing, each of us
 the music of ourselves to wrap 
the other in Forgiving clarities
 Soft as a choir’s last 
lingering note our 
personal blend I will be bringing you someone whole 
and you will be bringing me someone whole
 and we be twice as strong 
and we be twice as true 
and we will have twice as much 
of love
 and everything

Celebration, by Mari Evans

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This is so perfect. Especially: "Straight guys: you are gonna be approached a lot by the audience and by other comics. Try to seem like you sort of hate it AND kind of like it, like be accessible AND aloof, but DO NOT SLEEP AROUND."

As a comic, there’s one question I get all the time: why aren’t more men doing standup? There are a bunch of reason, but here’s 10 easy tips for men who want to get started in standup:

1. You are going to have to follow a comic who just used the mic as a vag. DO NOT let this throw you off. ...

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Rose Parks sat so Martin Luther walk Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly So I'ma spread my wings and you can meet me in the sky

"My President is Black (remix)," - Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, and Nas

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"It's crazy when people think that just because you have some money and white people start to like you that you transcend race. People try this shit all the time with successful black people, even with someone like me who was plenty black when I was on the corner. It's like they're trying to separate you from the pack—make you feel like you're the good one. It's the old house nigger–field nigger tactic."

Decoded, Jay-Z

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[On Barack Obama] "More than anything specific that he said, I was impressed by who he was. Supporters of Barack are sometimes criticized for getting behind him strictly because of his biography rather than his policies. I thought his policies were good, and I liked his approach to solving problems, but I'm not going to lie: Who he was was very important to me... And he was black. That was big. This was a chance to go from centuries of invisibility to the most visible position in the entire world. He could, through sheer symbolism, regardless of any of his actual policies, change the lives of millions of black kids who now saw something different to aspire to. That would happen on the day he was elected, regardless of anything else that happened in his term. No other candidate could promise so much."

Decoded, Jay-Z

I have so much respect for Jay-Z reading this book.

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When the politicians can't censor you and the industry can't marginalize you, call the cops. The statistics on the incarceration of black men, particularly of men of my generation, are probably the most objective indication that young black men are seen in this country as a "problem" that can be made to literally disappear. No one in the entire world—not in Russia or China or Iran—is locked up like black men are locked up in this country.

Decoded, Jay-Z

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whoops.

happy thanksgiving

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They Say a Madman Wrote This, by Renee Cox

Saw this when reading Jay-Z's book "Decoded;" found out who the artist was after some googling. She sounds pretty amazing. She did a nude piece called "Yo Mama's Last Supper." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Cox

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So I just learned about this comedian and she's lovely. 

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For me it's just the not knowing my Patronus. But I'd also really like to know what my daemon would have settled as...

Things I will forever be upset about:

1. I don’t know what my Patronus is 2. I don’t know what Amortentia smells like to me

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This is so perfect, guys. 

When I have to write a fundraising email

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Mark Hatcher discusses diversity and the future of humanism this morning at #cficon

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Stef McGraw speaking from experience on how to branch out on your campus. She's Speaker of her school's senate.

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People on twitter should tweet with #cficon and follow the awesome conference this weekend.

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OSU - Where people play basketball at 1am on Saturday.

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Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State at #ssaeast. Awesome.

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At The Black Keys last night. #latergram #selfies #dorks