Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Kanye West – “White Dress”

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[Hook]
Just me and you girl
(Wooooah oooh)
Just me and you girl
(Wooooah oooh)

Tryna sneak upstairs to your apartment
Aren’t you a sight for red eyes
I just flew in and slipped in on your left side
Just a satin gown, you asleep with no makeup
I’m just tryna be inside you ‘fore you wake up

[Hook]
Just me and you girl
(Wooooah oooh)
Just me and you girl
(Wooooah oooh)

We have problems but thats all in the past
Everybody got problems baby I got a past
Remember I used to do things that would make you laugh
Like ordering girl drinks in a masculine glass
You like pina coladas, getting caught in the rain
Or rocking flannels all summer like Kurt Cobain
Or that Dolce Gabbana with a few gold chains
And you the type of girl that probably deserve a new last name

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “Don’t Ever Let Me Go” – A Blue Lines Blog Four Week Wedding Series

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A Smile, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, decision, Friends, Friendship, Georgia, Heart, Husband, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Love, Marriage, Matrimony, New York, New York City, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, San Francisco, Smile, Text Tuesdays, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Walnut Creek, Wedding, Wife

My last entry for my friends getting married. A week from today they will be on their honeymoon, and will join the ranks of married couples. A great friend for many years, I wish them success and a fruitful lasting marriage of growth and prosperity.

I am honored to be the Best man, and love them. Without further commentary I offer this.

10/20/15
Don’t you ever let me go,
I put my hand in yours,
I put my love in yours,
I put my list in yours,
Don’t you ever let me go,

Don’t you ever let me go,
It’s not about what is out there,
What we have is always here,
I always want to keep you near,
Don’t you ever let me go,

Blue Lines Blog Editorial – A Need to Feel

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A Need to Feel, Atlanta, Black, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Cuba, Cuban, Editorial, Empathy, hispanic, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, New To You Music Sundays, New York, New York City, Racism, Racist, Sacramento, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, White

Recently I read a piece entitled, “Why I’m Absolutely an Angry Black Woman,” and it touched my heart in a way that I could not describe. The plight of the Black woman, and Black and Hispanic people primarily have always affected me, and pissed me off. Seeing a White person call a Black woman a “bitch” or Black “bitch” either to their face, or in response to a public figure as opposed to another has disgusted me, and ended what I thought were friendships.

Reading this piece also offered me a clearer visualization of concepts that I know exist. It also reminds me of the values that is placed on color both within the Black community, and Hispanic community (which I come from). It also lead me to question my reactions or the way that I deal with this world.

I grew up viewing the United States, erroneously referred to as America by an New York and International parent in the South of the 1980’s which was a virtual community of Black and White. For much of my young life I was “Spanish” but at the end of the day “Black.” “Black” was perfectly fine, because I was raised to be proud of such, but whenever we visited New York throughout the year, and the two years that we lived in New Jersey, “Black” was a totally different experience than the repressed values of the South.

Music Mondays – Local Native – “Airplanes”

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I forgot all about this song.


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.

Foto Fridays – Waikiki Oahu Hawaii

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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.

Shell Toe Thursdays – Chris’ adidas NEO Superstar White x White

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#FMSphotoaday, ad, adidas, Adidas Originals, Adidas Shell Toes, Adidas Superstar, ATL, Atlanta, Basketball, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chris, Georgia, Germany, Hawks, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Neo, Sacramento, Sneaker, White

  
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.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Genius/GZA – “Labels”

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[Intro: RZA]
Lot of people, you know what I’m saying, they be getting misinformed
Thinking everything is everything, that you could just get yourself
A little deal, whatever, youknowhati’msayin you gonna get on you
Gonna get rich. and all these labels be trying to lure us in like
Spiders, into the web, knowhati’msaying. so sometimes people gotta
Come out and speak up, and let people understand, that you know you
Gotta read the label you gotta read the label if you don’t read the
Label you might get poisoned…

[Genius:]
Tommy ain’t my motherf–kin’ Boy
When he fake moves on a n—a you employ
Well I’ll Emerge off ya set, now ya know God damn
I show living large n—az how to flip a Def Jam
And Ruff up the motherf–kin’ House
Cause I smother you Cold Chillin’ mother f–kers are still Warner Brothers
I’m ruthless my clan don’t have to act wild
That s–t is Jive, an old sleeping Bag/Profile
This soft comedian rap s–t ain’t the rough witty
On the reel to reel it wasn’t from a Tuff City
N—as be game, thinking that they lyrical surgeons

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “Three Of The Hardest Words” – A Blue Lines Blog Four Week Wedding Series

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10/19/15
Was it your smile that got me?
That fateful day when our eyes met,
The beginning of us, with years to develop,
Moving forward in an unknown direction,
A future California dream,

When did everything change,
Separated by the United States,
Our affection matured by travel and distance,
To lead us to this day,
The Californian dream,

Music Mondays – Vampire Weekend – “Hannah Hunt”

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2013, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bronxville, California, Chris Tomson, Christopher William Tomson, Ezra Koenig, Ezra Michael Koenig, Georgia, indie rock, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Los Angeles, Modern Vampires of the City, music, Music Mondays, New York, New York City, North Carolina, Outside Lands, Outside Lands 2013, Rostam Batmanglij, Rush, Rushing, Sacramento, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vampire Weekend, Washington D.C.

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.

New To You Music Sundays – Eagle Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Eagle Eye Cherry, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, New To You Music Sundays, North Carolina, Sacramento, Sweden, UNC

  
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.