Narrow Boundaries
Do not expect me to provide an exact account of what I have been permitted to experience in this domain. I shall limit myself here to recalling without effort certain things which, apart from any exertions on my part, have occasionally happened to me, things which, reaching me in unsuspected ways, give me the measure of the particular grace and disgrace of which I am the object; I shall discuss these things without pre-established order, and according to the mood of the moment which lets whatever survives survive. -Breton
tballardbrown: “…pardon me if I remain skeptical of those who would have us believe that Jay-Z and West make revolutionary art. Do they make music that is fun to dance to and contains occasional references to politics? Absolutely. But if they are revolutionaries, then let us marvel at what a difference 50 years makes: Hampton and Newton wielded guns in the name of class war, while today’s black militants are millionaires with music-video budgets who film fake revolutions in places where real revolutions once took place.”  —Cord Jefferson, via Gawker’s What’s 50 Grand to a Revolutionary Like Me?: Watch the Throne and the New Black Power
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  1. tballardbrown:

    “…pardon me if I remain skeptical of those who would have us believe that Jay-Z and West make revolutionary art. Do they make music that is fun to dance to and contains occasional references to politics? Absolutely. But if they are revolutionaries, then let us marvel at what a difference 50 years makes: Hampton and Newton wielded guns in the name of class war, while today’s black militants are millionaires with music-video budgets who film fake revolutions in places where real revolutions once took place.” 

    —Cord Jefferson, via Gawker’s What’s 50 Grand to a Revolutionary Like Me?: Watch the Throne and the New Black Power

  1. 386 notesTimestamp: Wednesday 2012/06/13 10:23:02Via: nprSource: Gawker
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