For the sake of what? / For the sakes of who?
For the sake of me. For the sake of you.
For the sake of him/her/them.
What do we dream, fantasize?
invoke or imagine?
Who else is eloquent and salient about these freedom dreams?
1 — Robin Wall Kimmerer interviewed in Emergence Magazine:
investing again in communities of care and compassion, not only for one another, but for the Earth
2 — Vince Staples, interviewed on Rap Caviar
people are always gonna try to box something in. that’s not music. that’s for Black people in America. genres and boxes that’s not for us. that for yall’s. they market Black people to be violent and gruesome. it’s been that since the beginning of time in this country, at least in this country. so that’s not a music thing.
3 — December 2024 exchange during Brandon Shimoda‘s book-reading-family-reunion-on-zoom:
How do we memorialize an event that is still on-going? One way to answer it is to write a book.
You can never repay.
I keep saying I want to move on but every time I say that, I think I’m jinxing myself.
4 — Mac Miller, 2009:
Send you back home with a light that’s beaming
The whole team about to figure it out
We ice cold, that’s what winter’s about
And sometimes, sometimes
I wish I took a simpler route
Instead of having demons thats as big as my house, mhmm
Have a ball with a dribble and bounce
Cause the party aint over till they’re kickin’ me out
5 — Guru, Lifesaver:
Is this really the end /
or is it a new beginning? a new reality /So many misconceptions /
so many evil deceptions /
I have come to give direction /
for I am the life saver
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 