Tea Cups

savored by lips
intimate with tepid
indifferent to scalds and scolds
utensils
appreciated occasionally
for beauty
form
function
found out in a small cupboard
survivors of rough treatment
tea cups
forged by itinerant alchemists
tinkering with fire, bone and ash
clumsy hands
and unexpected emotions
have killed others
vessels filled with temptation
and a new leaf.

First Born Homo Sapiens

Homo sapiens idaltu (“elder/first born”), Herto Man, is a number of early modern human fossils found in 1997 in Ethiopia. They date to around 160,000 years ago. The fossils establishes that modern human morphology does indeed initially appear in Africa.

Success

“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama

First Forget Inspiration

“First forget Inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit is persistence in practice.” – Octavia Butler

Angry Man

“To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.” ~ John Henrik Clarke

We Stand On The Shoulders

Benjamin Elijah Mays, an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the Civil Rights Movement. Mays taught and mentored: Martin Luther King Jr, Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson and others.

BLACK MASSACRES

The brutal and indiscriminate slaughter of people, albeit Black, Lives Matter. Colfax, Louisiana (1873) Wilmington, North Carolina (1898) Atlanta, Georgia (1906) Elaine, Arkansas (1919) Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921) Rosewood, Florida (1923)

African Americans

African Americans are an ethnic group with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa. Today, those descendants continue to be treated as thought they are enslaved or part of the “American Economic Chain Gang.”

Bantu Knots

The Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa are believed to have migrated into the region roughly 2,000 years ago from western and central Africa. One of the first major civilizations in southern Africa was the mysterious kingdom of Great Zimbabwe.

Know Better Do Better

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou

1001 Men

“In this series of drawings, I [Ajuan M. Nance] push past entrenched stereotypes to create images of Black men that reflect the wonderful complexity of African American lives.”

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