Don't bankrupt your soul while investing in the dreams of others.
Bad relationships are love's diarrhea. Once you get them out of your system, you'll feel better and be able to move on.
In the process of mending the hearts of others, make sure your own isn't breaking.
Let them choose you or lose you. Either way, be okay with the outcome.
Know better. Do better. Show better.
Your mind is a beautiful place. Stop letting those who aren't paying the rent live there for free.
It's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how well you plan to make sure it doesn't happen again.
No matter how goofy, moody, crazy and unpredictable you are, those who matter will love you anyway. Everyone else is dead weight.
Anyone you believe loves you will hurt you. But those who truly do never will.
You and God are the most important people you will face each day.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Some Things I Hope People Change In The New Year
1. Going natural as a trend and acting like those who don't make that choice are inferior. If you have to "go" natural, that means you have visited the Ring of Relaxers. Get off your high horse and see the beauty in all of it.
2. Men knowing you can't turn a ho into a housewife but still being willing to test the theory.
3. Waiting for our kids to get to school to learn home training.
4. The ability that rap music (Hip Hop's bastard child) has to birth philosophical idiots. Just because someone said it in a rap doesn't make it profound.
5. People acting as though bullying only happens on the playground. It's real. It's everywhere. Wake up.
6. Hailing World Star Hip Hop as their CNN. Maybe if you kept more quality around the house, your kids would learn to read before they learn all the words to Nicki and Wayne's new album.
7. Using the word "swag" 18 times in a sentence. That's all I got for that one.
8. People letting the number of "Likes" and Facebook friends determine how great they are.
9. Letting the streets raise our children and never teaching them their worth.
10. Terrible producers shoving their music down people's throats. The fact is EVERYONE has a studio, thinks they are a dope producer and knows people who think they have talent. But lies are like fables. Just because you repeat them, it doesn't make it true. Either develop your skills and try again or find something else you're good at.
11. Letting your Greek letters define you. Your organization created its legacy without you. Go create your own.
12. Deadbeat mamas and daddies.
13. Us allowing our children to search the television for role models. Your children should look up to you first and every day, you should give them reasons to never stop doing so.
14. (I know this won't change, but it pisses me off, so I'll post it anyway) Black women showing up to the hair store looking a mess. If you can fix yourself up going to the club with the hair you are about to buy, you can look decent with what God gave you. And hats are your friends. No excuses.
2. Men knowing you can't turn a ho into a housewife but still being willing to test the theory.
3. Waiting for our kids to get to school to learn home training.
4. The ability that rap music (Hip Hop's bastard child) has to birth philosophical idiots. Just because someone said it in a rap doesn't make it profound.
5. People acting as though bullying only happens on the playground. It's real. It's everywhere. Wake up.
6. Hailing World Star Hip Hop as their CNN. Maybe if you kept more quality around the house, your kids would learn to read before they learn all the words to Nicki and Wayne's new album.
7. Using the word "swag" 18 times in a sentence. That's all I got for that one.
8. People letting the number of "Likes" and Facebook friends determine how great they are.
9. Letting the streets raise our children and never teaching them their worth.
10. Terrible producers shoving their music down people's throats. The fact is EVERYONE has a studio, thinks they are a dope producer and knows people who think they have talent. But lies are like fables. Just because you repeat them, it doesn't make it true. Either develop your skills and try again or find something else you're good at.
11. Letting your Greek letters define you. Your organization created its legacy without you. Go create your own.
12. Deadbeat mamas and daddies.
13. Us allowing our children to search the television for role models. Your children should look up to you first and every day, you should give them reasons to never stop doing so.
14. (I know this won't change, but it pisses me off, so I'll post it anyway) Black women showing up to the hair store looking a mess. If you can fix yourself up going to the club with the hair you are about to buy, you can look decent with what God gave you. And hats are your friends. No excuses.
Damned Hypocrites
Oh how I love when someone makes a change that took them forever to make and then they decide to make it their life's mission to tell everyone else how inferior and stupid they are for not making the exact same change (while pretending they have done right all their lives). Hopefully, Dear Judge, when you lose all your friends, you'll understand why. Your audience has left the building.
The Devil Inside
Okay, so this is a film about a young woman (Isabella) who goes to Italy to try and clear the name of her mother (Maria) who has been locked up in a mental hospital for murdering three people when her daughter was 8 years old. The murders occurred during an exorcism in the family home. Now 25, Isabella and her cameraman Michael solicit the help pf two priests (Ben and David) who admit to performing exorcisms against the Church's rules. It is a docufilm (meaning it is shot documentary-style), but I can say that I hated it much less than The Blair Witch Project. I mean A LOT less. If you liked Paranormal Activity (either the first one or the 75th), you will likely love this film. Because it was supposed to be a documentary, I will say the acting was superb. When it comes to freak-out factor, on a scale of 1-10, the film is about a 4.
Maria Rossi has never been proven to be a real person. However, there are some who claim to have proof of her existence. It is alleged that she murdered the individuals in her home as well as the elderly next door neighbor. It is said that she did not make the 911 call depicted in the film but was caught the next day after standing outside her home and singing "We killed Edna" repeatedly. Whether real or not, she and The Devil Inside have caused quite a stir amongst some movie-goers. This is a story that may have been better in the pages of a novel than on the big screen. Putting the acting, the freak out factor and the cinematography together overall, I was unmoved and almost requested a refund.
If you are looking to see swearing priests and generally some of the strangest shit you have ever seen in your life, go see this film. But, if you're looking for a movie with a happy ending, or even an ending at all, save your money.
Maria Rossi has never been proven to be a real person. However, there are some who claim to have proof of her existence. It is alleged that she murdered the individuals in her home as well as the elderly next door neighbor. It is said that she did not make the 911 call depicted in the film but was caught the next day after standing outside her home and singing "We killed Edna" repeatedly. Whether real or not, she and The Devil Inside have caused quite a stir amongst some movie-goers. This is a story that may have been better in the pages of a novel than on the big screen. Putting the acting, the freak out factor and the cinematography together overall, I was unmoved and almost requested a refund.
If you are looking to see swearing priests and generally some of the strangest shit you have ever seen in your life, go see this film. But, if you're looking for a movie with a happy ending, or even an ending at all, save your money.
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