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UNI Presents: Corner Office Sunshine

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CornerOfficeSunshine

Tracklist
1. Amel Larrieux – Weather
2. VA/Freddie Joachim – My Breakdown Lady
3. Asher Roth – Dope Shit (Prod. By 1500 Or Nothin)
4. Bilal – Reminisce (feat. Mos Def & Common)
5. Black Star – Brown Skin Lady
6. Common – Geto Heaven Part Two (feat. D’Angelo)
7. Erykah Badu – Honey (Live)
8. MeLo-X/Quadron – Heartbeat (Quadron Remix)
9. D’Angelo – Cruisin (Wet P**** Remix)
10. Maxwell – Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)
11. India Arie – Strength, Courage and Wisdom
12. D’Angelo – Everybody Loves The Sunshine (Roy Ayers Cover)

Download Corner Office Sunshine: Here

Words.

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Zanele Muholi - LiTer I - IV, 2012 | MO(U)RNING Exhibit

Zanele Muholi – LiTer I – IV, 2012 | MO(U)RNING Exhibit

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”

  •  Claudia, The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

UNI Presents: …of Her

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“This woman.
This vessel, was not simply a vessel,
She was, and is,  both the message and the messenger of what needed to be said
Both the point of origin, and the voyage to wherever needed to be visited.
The voice of reason that urged the change of seasons no longer removed from it’s diaphragm.

I am. If you will.

Yes, we sat and discussed.
But further, The art of conversing lead to the conclusion that our lives are convergent.
Parts of a greater whole.
Somewhere along her words I found my soul and it said:

Go. Back. To. That. Thing. That. Begs. You. To. Revisit.

…and then, revise. If need be.
If not, let it be.
The catalyst.

Beyond surface conversation,
empty eloquence,
and beautiful rhetoric sits the truth.
Waiting to be courted.

Give me your hand, and we will dance.
… as we discussed.”

Download Link > | UNI – …of Her

Tracklist
1. Flying Lotus – Getting There (feat. Niki Randa)
2. Blu – Amnesia (Original)
3. Jill Scott – Love Rain (feat. Mos Def, Coffee Shop Mix)
4. Esperanza Spalding – I Can’t Help It (feat. Joe Lovano)
5. Maxwell – Seguranca
6. D’Angelo – Everybody Loves The Sunshine
7. Lianne La Havas – Tease Me
8. D’Angelo – Lady (Live)
9. Mary J. Blige – Beautiful (Black Star Remix)
10. The Roots – The Notic (Live)
11. The Robert Glasper Experiment & Bilal – All Matter
12. D’Angelo – Fall In Love (Live)

Esperanza Spalding & Other Things

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Provided By Montuno Productions-Taken By Sandrine Lee

Part of the short film from Radio Music Society.

Because we did not create a grand body of work that would have taught girls and women new and visionary ways to think about love, we witness the rise of a generation of females in our late twenties and early thirties who see any longing for love as weakness.

— bell hooks, “Communion”

Welp, I’m disappointed (in jest!).
Esperanza is an amazing artist and woman, thank god her expression seems to know no boundaries.

 

Food For Thought: A Note On Passing

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I wish that every thought expressed came with an embedded disclaimer that states: “This here thought? It’s advice I’m looking to practice, not preach.”

“You” means “Me”

Stating the seemingly obvious, in a way, is a means of applying reality in that place devoid of temperament and truth. Though it may seem repetitive and inane, it serves as an intrinsic source of motivation. So, with that being stated:

The temporary. The passing.

Change is inevitable, whether self induced or not.

The response is what defines the individual.
To mistake the present as the permanent is grave.

So, press on.
As I go back to the good thing.

D’Angelo & Questlove – Go Back to The Good Thing