MANY CAN TALK IT, BUT NOT MANY CAN WALK IT! GOD DOESN'T GIVE US THE PEOPLE WE WANT, HE GIVES US THE PEOPLE WE NEED TO: HELP US, HURT US, LEAVE US, LOVE US AND MAKE US INTO THE PERSON WE ARE MEANT TO BE! SOME PEOPLE ARE ONLY MEANT TO BE IN OUR LIVES FOR A SEASON AND OTHERS ARE MEANT TO BE IN OUR LIVES FOR A LIFETIME. WHICH DO YOU FEEL YOU ARE? AS A GREAT POET SAYS - LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW AND DO WRONG TO NONE.
Well it is a new year and perhaps a change is in order. First my name is Darren P. I'm a SBM D&D free, I live in West Phila just moved back from Mt Airy. I consider myself a easy going man. #####As long as I am given the respesct that I give to you. If I'm talking to you in a calm level understandable voice. I require the same of you. If I do not use foul language towards you, I expect the same of you. IF I ASK YOU A QUESTION AND YOU ANSWER IT I EXPECT IT THE BE THE TRUTH. FOR I WILL DO THE SAME FOR YOU, IF YOU B###S##T ONCE I'M GONE NO HARM NO FOUL .####
THIS PARAGRAPH PROBABLY WILL NOT GO OVER TOO WELL. BUT IT NEEDS TO BE SAID. IT PROBABLY WILL NOT BE LIKED BUT I DO NO CARE IT'S MY PAGE SO MY RULES LOL! ### I HAVE NEITHER THE TIME NOR THE INTEREST FOR NONSENCE AND FOOLISHNESS, IF YOU WANT TO PLAY GAMES OF SOMESORT OR ANOTHER. OF IF YOU JUST INTO GENERAL B.S. YOU NEED TO MOVE ON TO SOMEONE ELSES PAGE.
Oh about my page you'll notice my page is obvisously quite long. It is a representation of my likes and concerns and my varied taste in music from the Isley brothers to Barry White, Jill Scott and Marvin Gaye. NOW IF THERE IS ANY PART OF MY PAGE THAT BOTHERS,OFFENDS,UPSETS OR EVEN CONFUSES YOU. You don't have to stay please LEAVE AND TAKE YOUR NEGETIVE THOUGHTS AND ENERGY WITH YOU MY PAGE IS HERE TO UPLIFT ONES MIND AND SPIRIT. I HAVE NO INTENIONS OF DELETING ADDING EXPLANING ANYTHING ON IT.
Ok, with that said and out of the way. Moving forward I am the type of man you can relax with and have as a friend, lover or whatever God has in mind us. If you are interested in a man who wants to see a woman as a person 1st and a good friend 2nd and whatever else 3rd then I'm your man. I am strong believer in Nice walks along Penns Landing in the summer time or listening to the jazz concerts in August every Friday, or just doing a movie night, perhaps listening to some cd's. Just enjoying the company of a person of character and quality. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN UNDERSTANDING A PERSON AND FINDING OUT IF WE CAN BE FRIENDS,LOVERS. If that's something you can understand cool, let talk and get to know each other a little better. I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU UNTIL THEN RELAX AND ENJOY MY WORLD.
By Marqus1964 December 15, 2007 A.D.
Take me as I am:
Neither one of us can speak . . . and we are finding, even breathing, is difficult. Your heartbeat is pounding out a rhythm that almost assaults my ears. I can hear it from where I stand across from you . . . and every beat speaks of your love for me. I am giving you this gift tonight, because I desperately want you to look inside. I want you to open this package that I offer you, slowly . . . lovingly . . . sensuously . . . and search for what lies within. You don't have to look far, you know . . . everything I feel for you is just below the surface. So it shouldn't take long for you to discover the beauty awaiting you there. Go ahead . . . open this gift as a child would on a snowy Christmas morning . . .
Still my restless mind:
Still it rushes through me, in every pore, through every cell. What is this . . . what feeling is this? I cannot tell, what secrets unveil capabilities unknown to limits. This absolute emmersion blankets my every conscious thought. Drawing you closer, bringing you here. So close to me I dare not say - still not within my sight. I feel your breath, heat penetrating my skin like a hard summer rain. I feel your face, your eyes, trace your mouth with my fingers. You give me breath so close to your mouth, still we do not touch. Smoldering fantasies ignite burning, lust and longing. Desire tempts me.
To put it simply, I want you:
I want to be your companion and walk hand in hand, your strength enveloping mine. Autumn leaves falling, scuffing feet and laughter, sharing nights, not finished by the dark.
I want to be your confidant as you pen your deepest thoughts, as your heartaches bleed and finally break free. Your dreams, I keep as if my own. I want to smile as you smile and giggle with you at nothing at all.
I want to be your lover and find the passions that move you to action. I want to be the softness that induces you to trust. I want to be the naughty that makes you come back for more. I want to please you.
I want to share your breakfast and your dinner, I want you in the shower and in your bed and with soft steps to bring you coffee (I take mine black) Your strong arms, the legs that power your thrust, your lips of pleasure, these are the fuel of my desire
no it is no secret, my love, and to put it very simply, I want you.
I do not go back to America to sit still, remain quiet, and enjoy ease and comfort. . . . I glory in the conflict,that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain. I go, turning my back upon the ease, comfort, and respectability which I might maintain even here. . . Still, I will go back, for the sake of my brethren. I go to suffer with them to toil with them; to endure insult with them; to undergo outrage with them; to lift up my voice in their behalf to speak and write in their vindication and struggle in their ranks for the emancipation which shall yet be achieved.
By Fredrick Douglas
FAREWELL TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE, March 30, 1847
"Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!"
By Booker T. Washington
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
By Booker T. Washington
"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime."
By W. E. B. Du Bois
"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
By W. E. B. Du Bois
"It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American."
By W.E. B. Du Bois
There are two opposing forces active in the universe. Yin exists in Yang and Yang exists in Yin. This is the the changing combination of negative and positive, dark and light, cold and hot which keeps the world spinning and creates Chi - the giving life force.
YIN : Female : Earth, moonlight, darkness, quiet, decreasing, absorbing, receptive, winter, soft. Direction - North, Quality - Shady, Numbers - Even.
YANG : Heaven, sunlight, day, heat, motion, masculine, active, summer. Direction - South, Quality - Sunny, Numbers - uneven.
STATE OF BALANCE : In all aspects of life a state of balance should exist between the opposing forces of Ying and Yang.
****Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.****
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
By Dr. MartinLuther King. Jr
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm.
tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate and, I will not excuse and I will not retreat a single inch *** AND I WILL BE HEARD.***
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison, "To the Public from the Inaugural Editorial in the 1 January 1831 The Liberator"
David Walker's Appeal, arguably the most radical of all anti-slavery documents, caused a great stir when it was published in September of 1829 with its call for slaves to revolt against their masters. David Walker, a free black originally from the South wrote.
"They want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us. Therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed. . . and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man. Who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty."
The goal of the Appeal was to instill pride in its black readers and give hope that change would someday come. It spoke out against colonization, a popular movement that sought to move free blacks to a colony in Africa. America, Walker believed, belonged to all who helped build it. He went even further, stating, "America is more our country than it is the whites -- we have enriched it with our blood and tears." He then asked, "will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our blood?"
By David Walker September 1829
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1925-1965) was assassinated as he spoke on February 21, 1965 in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
The Black Panther Party was organized in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale (1936- ) of Dallas, Texas and Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) of Monroe, Louisiana as a black self-defense group aimed at getting revolutionary changes in America's policies as they related to oppressed African-Americans. Other Panther Party members included Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) and Fred Hampton (1952?-1969).
A Public Lynching:
MSNBC News Services Updated: 10:51 p.m. ET June 13, 2005 WASHINGTON - The Senate late Monday formally apologized for having rejected decades of pleas to make lynching a federal crime as scores victims, descendants watched from the chamber's gallery.
On a voice vote and without opposition, the Senate passed a resolution expressing its regrets to the relatives as well as to the nearly 5,000 Americans who were documented as having been lynched from 1880 to 1960.
These deaths occurred without trials, mostly in the South, often with the knowledge of local officials who allowed mob lynchings to become picture-taking, public spectacles.
"As I look at todays relationships past and present I often wonder WHAT ACTUALLY DO TODAY'S BLACKWOMEN WANT FROM A BLACKMAN? I think that is a a fair question, at one point in time I might have gone with what a lot of blackwomen have said a man who's kind,intelligent hardworking with morals and a plan for the future for himself."
Of late I have seen just the opposite. I have witnessed with my own eyes the strongest,mot intelligent and without a doubt the most beautiful blackwomen I have ever seen, or known waste their time on a worthless no account N****A. Not worth spit in the wind to say the least. I don't mean to sound cruel, or critical but even you ladies must admit to yourself you'll spend time,money and your tears over a so called man you now isn't worth S**t. And when you're asked why you do not have an answer WHY IS THAT?
"We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary". (1965)
Malcolm X
""THE DEATH OF OUR PEOPLE""
More than 600,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the United States since 1981, and as many as 900,000 Americans may be infected with HIV. The epidemic is growing most rapidly among minority populations and is a leading killer of African American males. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the prevalence of AIDS is six times higher in African-Americans and three times higher among Hispanics than among whites
There is growing evidence from several sources that inner city African American adolescents are at high risk of sexually transmitted infection with the HIV, which causes AIDS. African Americans comprise only 12% of the U.S. population, but 34% of the reported AIDS cases in the U.S.
In the United States, the impact of HIV and AIDS in the African American community has been devastating. Through December 1999, CDC had received reports of 733,374 AIDS cases of those 272,881 cases occurred among African Americans.
Surrender:
Lay your head back lover, Relax your troubled mind, Let me fill your world with peace, Leave the past behind.
Fill the night with pleasure, Sweet, erotic bliss, Movement of both place and time, Suspended with a kiss.
Lift your heart to soar above, Gaze into my eyes, The single sound to reach our ears, Love's releasing sighs.
Entwined as one, A single cord, We'll surrender in the night, Staying here forever, In the moon's caressing light.
Lustful Longing:
Tell me what I'd have to change. Who would I have to be To slip into your arms; for you to make sweet love to me. Must I climb the highest cliff; swim along the ocean floor Crawl over broken glass - would you demand that I do more? Could you take me as I am, with my issues and my flaws Pull me to your chest without a hesitation or a pause? Kiss my hungry lips.
What would I your woman have to do or what would you want me To do? Run my anxious fingers along chest, back and caress your face. Wrap me in your passion, expose your every need. Press your body to mines, every secret freed. I'll wipe my tears across my cheek, confess every desire Moan your name. Will you take me over, over and over again, and call me yours, swear to the heavens I am yours and yours alone? Will you be mine and mine alone? Will you set my soul on fire? Will you need me more with every breath that slips into your chest, Please me nightly, miss me daily, never compare me with the rest. Grip my wrists; look in my eyes, and say the words I long to hear Kiss me roughly, and weep my name, forever hold me dear. Do I ask for wishes that could never quite come true? Is my sin, my greatest fault, that I can't stop loving you?
Can I Borrow $25?
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.
SON: 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?' DAD: 'Yeah sure, what it is?' replied the man. SON: 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?' DAD: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily. SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?' DAD: 'If you must know, I make $50 an hour.' SON: 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down. SON: 'Daddy, may I please borrow $25?'
The father was furious, 'If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don't work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.' The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down , and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door. 'Are you asleep, son?' He asked. 'No daddy, I'm awake,' replied the boy. 'I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier' said the man. 'It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $25 you asked for.'
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. 'Oh, thank you daddy!' He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father. 'Why do you want more money if you already have some?' the father grumbled. Because I didn't have enough, but now I do,' the little boy replied. 'Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.'
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $50 worth of your time with someone you love.
If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours. But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
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