Interesting, def. touched me. Crazy how people would just stand there and watch, or just walk away....I started to tear when that lady started praying...Just to think that this is not just an episode in "what would you do?" it actually happens everyday in real life.
more on this read the article "Calling it like they see it" on Racewire.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Bronx Princess
Last year while coordinating and setting up my fundraiser 1st Annual Artist F-Our Blueprint for my program A Foundation For Youth , I was directed to Yoni Brook a very kool individual. He was in the mist of working on the documentary "Bronx Princess" along with Musa Syeed.BRONX PRINCESS follows headstrong teenager Rocky's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana, West Africa. Filmed over the tumultuous summer between high-school and college, BRONX PRINCESS tells Rocky's coming-of-age story. By confronting her immigrant parents' ideas of adulthood, Rocky reconciles her African heritage with her dream of independence.
Yoni gave me the opportunity see the final cut of documentary last August and I was very impressed. Funny thing is that the girl that the documentary was about,Rocky, was as intern at the Young People For office last summer where I constantly went for meetings and I had no idead it was her (the world is small). So here is a clip of a Bronx Princess.It will be aired on PBS September 22 and it will be screen for the first time in NYC at the African Film Festival at Lincoln Center April 10th @ 3pm
April 12 @ 2:40pm For more information visit http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/aff09.htm or click on Bronx Princess for the Facebook link or Bronx Princess website.
this Type love....
This is my fav. piece of all time...its by Shihan . He is such a talented individual...
I def. want that type of love......
I def. want that type of love......
Monday, March 30, 2009
1st entry
Yes, yes I know…I succumbed to peer pressure …decided to start blogging…After hearing “Sonia you should blog” a million times I decided to go ahead and create an account …I was hesitant at first like: What should I write about? Whose gonna be reading it? Will I have time?…..well I’m only gonna write what I would really say out loud…and I guess whose ever interested can read it…and time wise I shall try my best to blog atleast a couple of times a week…..
So for my first entry…..I’ve started to indulge myself in poetry ever since Ms.Toni Blackman told me I should. Right now I’ve been reading Sonia Sanchez’s book Bluestreak. I find myself being touched by her words, as if her lines have been reincarnated in my body. One of her piece that I can def. read over and over again is a sonku she wrote and it goes like this :
What I want
From you can
You give? What
I give to
You do you
Want?hey?hey?
Its pretty simple, but the words have so much depth to them. And I guess one of the reasons I like this piece is because it related to what I been going through lately. It goes hand in hand with certain individuals that seem to just pop out of nowhere wanting to offer me the world, or offer me “love” and its like “can you give me what I want?” and “do you really want what I can offer?” Its easy to say you want to embark into something but when you think things through its like: 1) timing is not right 2) this feelings are so random, where have you been for the past couple of months? 3) do you really know me? 4) and what about them other girls? You thought I didn’t know about them? Smh . You may want everything, but you cant have everything. Well you can ,but all in due time. You cant have a relationship when you want to live a single person’s life, you cant say you want to offer someone love when you have yet to understand what love requires. Everyone wants a perfect love story, I do too. But for right now I’m living a different chapter on a different story
So for my first entry…..I’ve started to indulge myself in poetry ever since Ms.Toni Blackman told me I should. Right now I’ve been reading Sonia Sanchez’s book Bluestreak. I find myself being touched by her words, as if her lines have been reincarnated in my body. One of her piece that I can def. read over and over again is a sonku she wrote and it goes like this :
What I want
From you can
You give? What
I give to
You do you
Want?hey?hey?
Its pretty simple, but the words have so much depth to them. And I guess one of the reasons I like this piece is because it related to what I been going through lately. It goes hand in hand with certain individuals that seem to just pop out of nowhere wanting to offer me the world, or offer me “love” and its like “can you give me what I want?” and “do you really want what I can offer?” Its easy to say you want to embark into something but when you think things through its like: 1) timing is not right 2) this feelings are so random, where have you been for the past couple of months? 3) do you really know me? 4) and what about them other girls? You thought I didn’t know about them? Smh . You may want everything, but you cant have everything. Well you can ,but all in due time. You cant have a relationship when you want to live a single person’s life, you cant say you want to offer someone love when you have yet to understand what love requires. Everyone wants a perfect love story, I do too. But for right now I’m living a different chapter on a different story
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