mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

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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I of course am thankful for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all the work he did for the civil rights movement, black people, and humanity as a whole. I especially love how 85% of my social media friends and followers Googled “MLK quotes” yesterday to update their statuses with something inspiring from inspirationalquotes.com. No, [...]

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Prompt: Try. What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did / didn’t go for it? I have been saying I’m going to WRITE A FUCKING BOOK SINCE I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. Or maybe younger, but whatever. My problem is, I’ve [...]

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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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Since the beginning of the year, I have become SO much more natural-hair conscious. I notice us more in commercials and TV shows, in magazines and on the streets. AND I LOVE IT. This is SO awesome. I found this commercial/trailer on the fabulous blog, The Black Bot, and it’s a great promotion for the [...]

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