Thursday, What can I say??

Okay, so yesterday as most of you know, I went to Barnes and Noble. I found a book on blogs and copied all of the web addresses, they will be posted on here. Some of these blogs look hilarious, look them up and see how you feel. I found this other book about the Black Skin color Complex, I bought it, I had to. I had the craziest encounter with my Sister. She had the nerve to say something about having good hair...y'all know I nearly had a stroke...and I nearly choked her when she went on to defend the notion of straighter hair being good, while nappy hair is bad...this girl really needs some help...so I'm gonna read the book and then get the Gram or Mom to make her read it! here is the opening quote in the book, "This society measures the success of the Negro by how fast he turns White," (James Baldwin). Also Meeks said the darnedest thing: She said that she doesn't care for dark people...and tried to equate that to me not necessarily valuing diversity the way she does...I could not believe this!!!! and she said that our "problems" were of equal lunacy...I beg to differ, how do you feel?? Also, I saw "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," one the funniest movies I've ever seen!! (yes, funnier than "Dan in Real Life" and "Juno"). Okay so I promised two poems and/or lyrics so here goes:

The Revolution Will Be on the Big Screen

My man Gil Scott Heron once said:
The revolution will not be televised
Well...
Gil Scott may have a point
The revolution may not be televised
But...
The revolution will be a major motion picture
The revolution will not be televised
But...
The revolution will be on the big screen

The Revolution will be a fifty million dollar production
The Revolution will be written by John Grisham
And directed by Oliver Stone
The Revolution will star Kevin Costner and Julia Roberts
And they will teach people of color
How to revolt
And how to fight and how to hide and how to kill
And how to SCREAM
The Revolution will be on the big screen, brother.

The Revolution will have one Latino extra
Playin' a thief
One Asian extra
Playin' a servant
And one Native American extra runnin’
down Florence and Normandie yellin’
Geronimo.

The Revolution will have one Black supporting actor
Denzel Washington
Who will be killed by Kevin Costner in the first
three minutes
For looking at Julia Roberts for more than
one minute
While Kevin Costner will have a picture of Whitney Houston
Burnin' in his wallet
The Revolution will be on the big screen, sistah.

The Revolution will be coming soon to a theatre near you
And will get two thumbs up from Siskel and Ebert
And will make more money than Jurassic Park and ET
The Revolution will cost $7.50 to see or $5.50 if
you got a student i.d.
The Revolution will go good with popcorn, bon bons and licorice
The Revolution will be on the big screen.

The Revolution will have a multi platinum soundtrack
Wtih revolutionary songs sung by
Guns 'N' Roses, Metallica and Madonna
The Revolution will be advertised on billboards, buses, t shirts
and at Taco Bell and Micky Dees
The Revolution will be on the big screen.

The Revolution will be distributed internationally
The Revolution will be seen in Cuba, Ruwanda and Haiti
The Revolution will change the way the world thinks about
Revolution
And the way the world thinks about
Change
The Revolution will be on the big screen.

The Revolution will have a sequel
The Revolution will have a part III
The Revolution will be too large for t.v.
Too large for the little screen
The Revolution will be larger than life
Larger than large
And larger than larger than large
The Revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Not be televised
Be televised
The Revolution will be
On the Big Screen.

D-Knowledge
(Derrick I.M. Gilbert)

and

Thursday's Child

Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.
--Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme