Brian Akpofure Foulks
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Powerful people never educate you on how to take their power away from them.- Dr. John Henrik Clarke
June 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Powerful people never educate you on how to take their power away from them.- Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Good Black preaching is a prophetic performance. However, it addresses issues with radical resolve; it is simply a melody of militancy providing a spiritual balm to the soul.
May 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Good Black preaching is a prophetic performance. However, it addresses issues with radical resolve; it is simply a melody of militancy providing a spiritual balm to the soul.
Hope is an untold and unseen rope that vehemently pulls the righteous through sardonic periods.
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hope is an untold and unseen rope that vehemently pulls the righteous through sardonic periods.
So, in all my serenity my answer is that there too many idiots on this earth. - Frantz Fanon
March 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So, in all my serenity my answer is that there too many idiots on this earth. - Frantz Fanon
Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of terribleness a transfiguration of the given.-Saidiya Hartman
March 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of terribleness a transfiguration of the given.-Saidiya Hartman
In a country built on racist ideology, dehumanization, hate, and selfishness, it should never surprise Black folks when white supremacist exhibits their beliefs. I have come to the point—I expect it. And until you give me something other than you should expect my response—however, it comes.
February 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In a country built on racist ideology, dehumanization, hate, and selfishness, it should never surprise Black folks when white supremacist exhibits their beliefs. I have come to the point—I expect it. And until you give me something other than you should expect my response—however, it comes.
Stupidity detests anything that is not stupid. And for clarification, wealth never equates to brilliance.
February 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Stupidity detests anything that is not stupid. And for clarification, wealth never equates to brilliance.
The elders said it over and over. "Beware! Seek not the thing you do not need. Greed destroys wisdom. Let just enough be enough." We were too blessed. Our abundance suggested immortality, so we stopped searching for invisible things.- Daniel Black, The Coming
February 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The elders said it over and over. "Beware! Seek not the thing you do not need. Greed destroys wisdom. Let just enough be enough." We were too blessed. Our abundance suggested immortality, so we stopped searching for invisible things.- Daniel Black, The Coming
White supremacy can't be humane. Therefore, to expect anything but indecency is foolish. Its entire premise is predicted on dehumanizing those they can't defeat, those they don't understand, or those they wish they could be.
January 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
White supremacy can't be humane. Therefore, to expect anything but indecency is foolish. Its entire premise is predicted on dehumanizing those they can't defeat, those they don't understand, or those they wish they could be.
...violence and vulnerability [are] dual pullars of reality...- Dr. Barbara Ransby
January 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
...violence and vulnerability [are] dual pullars of reality...- Dr. Barbara Ransby
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Commentary: Rev. Earle J. Fisher, senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, writes that Memphis Mayor Paul Young's opposition to signing a Department of Justice consent decree governing police is morally indefensible
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December 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Commentary: Rev. Earle J. Fisher, senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, writes that Memphis Mayor Paul Young's opposition to signing a Department of Justice consent decree governing police is morally indefensible
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...living in a racist culture drives you crazy...-Dr. Nell Irvin Painter
January 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
...living in a racist culture drives you crazy...-Dr. Nell Irvin Painter
We will see folks compromise their integrity in the coming months to fit into the proverbial box of acceptance. Do what you must, but ensure your character is intact when all is said and done. This will be a bumpy ride, but we will make it.
Stay vigilant, courageous, and unified.
Stay vigilant, courageous, and unified.
January 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We will see folks compromise their integrity in the coming months to fit into the proverbial box of acceptance. Do what you must, but ensure your character is intact when all is said and done. This will be a bumpy ride, but we will make it.
Stay vigilant, courageous, and unified.
Stay vigilant, courageous, and unified.
Once people resist, they never stop. - Dr. James Cone
January 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Once people resist, they never stop. - Dr. James Cone
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. -Amiri Baraka
January 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. -Amiri Baraka
So in all serenity my answer is that there are too many idiots on this earth.- Fanon
January 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So in all serenity my answer is that there are too many idiots on this earth.- Fanon
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
- Audre Lorde
- Audre Lorde
January 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
- Audre Lorde
- Audre Lorde
Evil and injustice often excel because justice lacks persistence and stamina.
Justice will always cost you something. Liberation frees, but it ain't free.
Justice will always cost you something. Liberation frees, but it ain't free.
January 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Evil and injustice often excel because justice lacks persistence and stamina.
Justice will always cost you something. Liberation frees, but it ain't free.
Justice will always cost you something. Liberation frees, but it ain't free.
An immense hope is born amid struggle, not an empty struggle devoid of change, but one that is imperative in pinpointing the issues yet definitive in preparing strategies.
December 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM
An immense hope is born amid struggle, not an empty struggle devoid of change, but one that is imperative in pinpointing the issues yet definitive in preparing strategies.
True community begins in the hearts of the people involved. It is not a place of distraction but a place of being. It is not a place where you reform, but a place you go home to. Finding a home is what people in community try and accomplish. - Malidoma Patrice Some
December 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
True community begins in the hearts of the people involved. It is not a place of distraction but a place of being. It is not a place where you reform, but a place you go home to. Finding a home is what people in community try and accomplish. - Malidoma Patrice Some
Slavery had the power at one time to...interpret the Bible, and control the church...-Frederick Douglass
December 13, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Slavery had the power at one time to...interpret the Bible, and control the church...-Frederick Douglass
Writing is sacred, an agonizing compromise of truth, art, and love. The brilliance happens when you realize that to exclude either is to taint the sacred.
December 9, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Writing is sacred, an agonizing compromise of truth, art, and love. The brilliance happens when you realize that to exclude either is to taint the sacred.
There is something about precision gets my attention. (I am not talking about perfection but precision.) The care and intentionality one takes for precision operates from discipline and integrity.
December 6, 2024 at 4:08 PM
There is something about precision gets my attention. (I am not talking about perfection but precision.) The care and intentionality one takes for precision operates from discipline and integrity.
But celebration which grows out of identification with and affirmation of the intellectual and spiritual forebears of our ancestral community is not incompatible with analysis.- Vincent Harding
November 30, 2024 at 12:47 PM
But celebration which grows out of identification with and affirmation of the intellectual and spiritual forebears of our ancestral community is not incompatible with analysis.- Vincent Harding
The tangibility of faith often means one will actively be engaged in the struggle while wavering through a/the chaos. Faith never alleviates one from struggle; it provides a sense of clarity.
November 29, 2024 at 6:08 PM
The tangibility of faith often means one will actively be engaged in the struggle while wavering through a/the chaos. Faith never alleviates one from struggle; it provides a sense of clarity.