“Beans and Cornbread had a fight. Beans knocked Cornbread outta sight. Cornbread said, ‘Now that’s alright, meet me on the corner tomorrow night.’ I’ll be ready, I’ll be ready tomorrow night. That’s what Beans said to Cornbread. “I’ll be ready tomorrow night.” Beans told Cornbread you ain’t straight. You better wake up or I’ll gash […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
By Valerie Fraling, Special to the AFRO “Johnny Taylor, still the favorite and Bobby Blue Bland still the blues, 5 dollars you got to pay, just a jukebox and no DJ. The smaller the club, the bigger the party, something about this room. The smaller the club, the better the party, the dance floor, you […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing, until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“Back when I was a child before life removed all the innocence, my father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me…And I knew for sure I was loved. If I could get another chance another walk, another dance with him I’d play a song that would never ever end. How I’d […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“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 […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom for me and you and I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white the bright-blessed day, the dark sacred night. And, I think to myself what a wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
I wish you flowers sunshine and smiles. I wish you children that grow to make you proud. I wish you pretty things to wear, sweet things to smell. I wish you well. I wish you good friends that always treat you fair. Wanna wish you ribbons to tie around your hair. I wish you truckloads […]
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Living For The Weekend
By Valerie Fraling, Special to the AFRO “The years of imprisonment hardened me…. Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn’t be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
By Valerie Fraling, Special to the AFRO “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind… And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“Beat-up little seagull on a marble stair, tryin’ to find the ocean, lookin’ everywhere. Hard times in the city in a hard town by the sea. Ain’t nowhere to run to. There ain’t nothin’ here for free. Hooker on the corner waiting for a train, drunk lying on the sidewalk sleeping in the rain. And […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or, fester like a sore, and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat/ Or, crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” Langston Hughes During Black […]