mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

“I hate to say this, but hair is the best thing to happen to rhythmless non-blacks.” “Did I die and go to simple bitch hell?” Issa Rae, creator, producer, and star of “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” is hilarious– and onto something. I became aware of the Awkward Black Girl Twitter account several months [...]

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Television is not the truth. Television’s a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever [...]

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…is the Facebook de-friending. (Thanks to my friend @trecoolx for putting it so succinctly and giving me this title.) *** When my mother joined Facebook and requested my friendship, I knew nothing good would come of it. Because I’m basically a heathen, while my mother is devout. But really, those terms are so relative and [...]

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Last year on this date, I awoke from an afternoon nap and checked my phone to see this message from my friend Shakeel: “I am so sad right now.” I frantically wrote him back asking what happened. “Michael Jackson died” was the response. I remember that moment so clearly; the sinking feeling in the pit [...]

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This video has absolutely nothing to do with entrepreneurship, business, self-improvement or natural hair–but it’s hilarious, so I have no choice but to share it with those of you who have yet to view it. Last Thursday, Sean’s cousin Christopher took the train down to the city to come hang out with us. After we [...]

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