MY OWN SYNTAX

Anything black, queer, funk, foul, bright, woman, not-woman, not-not brown, yellow, white, fake, false, cruel, straight, permed, natural, skinny, sexy, sleazy, dead. Any body without invasion. Any voice without erasure.

18th May 2010

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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

so-treu:

tobia:

— Lena Horne

Reblogged from come on up to the house

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Born and raised in New Orleans, Rickey Laurentiis is a poet and studies in New York. MY OWN SYNTAX is his blog of poetics and politics, and is dedicated to James Baldwin and Alvin Ailey. Ask him your question here or visit his literary project, CAYENNE, here.

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