Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – De La Soul – “Potholes In My Lawn”

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Yo something’s wrong here. No not again!)
(Get the daisies for the…)
Potholes in my lawn
DOVE:
Everybody’s sayin’
What to do when suckin’ lunatics start diggin’ and chewin’
They don’t know that the Soul don’t go for that
Potholes in my lawn
And that goes for my rhyme sheet
Which I concentrated so hard on see
I don’t ask for maximum security
But my dwellin’ is swellin’
It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
Into a spot
Where no ink or an ink-blot
Was on a scroll
I just wrote me a new ‘mot’
But now it’s gone
There’s no
Suckers knew that I hate
To recognise that every time I’m writin’
It’s gone
(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

30 Day Photo Challenge – Day 1 – A Picture Of Myself With 10 Facts

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30 Day Photo Challenge, 4, A Picture Of Myself With 10 Facts, Atlanta, Blue, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Cuba, Cuban, Day 1, family, Jamaica, Jamaican, Key Yemaya Walker, manuscript, MW, Photography, poetry, Prose, Starbucks

1. My favorite color is “Blue”
2. My favorite number is “4.”
3. I am of Cuban lineage, and I know that side.
4. I am of Jamaican lineage, which I know nothing of.
5. I wrote a fictional manuscript, now over 400+ ppgs, about real people. I have written a bunch of poetry and short stories, and I have had a poem published once.
6. I Love Starbucks coffee. I really don’t drink other types.
7. I think more than I speak.
8. I bore easily when I’m not challenged.
9. I am very family oriented.
10. I am faithful, almost to a fault.
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog: This Day in American History – Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies

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Associate Justice, Baltimore, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brown v. Board of Education, first African-American justice, Frederick Douglass High School, Howard University School of Law, Key Yemaya Walker, Maryland, President Johnson, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vivian "Buster" Burey

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.