WHEN A BIRD SINGS....

If no one calls you "Primetime", then LEAVE THE EARRINGS FOR GIRLS!! (fyi even Deion left them with the 90s)

American Heritage Dictionary defines smart: Characterized by sharp quick thought; bright. See Synonyms at intelligent . American Heritage Dictionary defines intelligent: having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals Probably since the 9th grade, I have stopped calling myself "smart". I just stop believing that I was a smart person. I didn't think getting A's in school was the result of being "smart"; however, I was just doing my work. When I got to college I continued to do my work. I also learned ways to get over...I don't want to go into detail about that because I don't want to promote it. In my professional life, I never considered myself to be "smart" because I just believed that I had become skilled. I've thought for a long time that most people definition of "smart" is very limiting. This excludes people from identifying themselves as being smart, and a lot of times thi...

For the longest time, I longed for my generation to have a hero. I wonder what it would have been like to wake up to a sermon by MLK, a speech by Malcolm X, or a rally by Huey P. Newton. I wonder what it was like to no longer be compliant and have mass of people rise together to fight against the status quo... On November 4th, I no longer wonder...but I felt I started to believe!! I had hope!! I looked at the television and watch the first Black man elected to be the president of the US. I felt patriotic!! I wanted to sing "I'm proud to be an American." Barack Obama has inspired me...he has done nothing, but campaign...and I feel hope. Michelle Obama will be my next first lady!! For the first time in my young life, I said "MY FIRST LADY." I didn't think that I would experience knowing how it feels to have a hero, but I love it!! I aspire to have the same Black Love!! I am proud to call the OBAMAS my first family. The first time that I believe that people has...

Now, that I am back in Oakland....I am surrounded by the hyphy theme...which is cool because it makes me feel right at home...All I am asking is that people from the Bay Area know how to turn it on and OFF!!

For a very long time, I've been feeling like I want something more to add to myself... Its been as if I am unhappy with just being me.... Yesterday, something came to me...and I started to make more sense to myself.... This whole time, I've been searching for something out of myself, but I realized that I just want out this person that I believed was me.... I have been living my life in a box....inside these walls, I have mapped out my life...Go to grad school, get a degree by 25, start my career, and marry by thirty...(just to give a snapshop) When things stray away from my percieve "roadmap", I have equated it to failure...My need to succeed really only comes from a fear of failure...yes, this is a good thing; however, it is limiting if I only see "success" as being one way... No longer will I live inside of this box...I am breaking down these walls, and giving myself some options...follow my heart, my passion, my strengths.... I wonder...What would Obama ...