“I’m an honest hoe…and all my hoes is honest.” — Della Reese as Vera Walker from the motion picture Harlem Nights.
Aug. 26, 2011 at 8:48am with 27 notes
Reblogged from angimia
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Running off to mimeograph a fuck-whitey leaflet, leaving your mate to brood, is not revolutionary. Hopping on a plane to rap to someone else’s “community” while your son struggles alone with the Junior Scholastic assignment on “The Dark Continent” is not revolutionary. Sitting around murder-mouthing incorrect niggers while your father goes upside your mother’s head is not revolutionary. Mapping out a building takeover when your term paper is overdue and your scholarship is under review is not revolutionary. Talking about moving against the Mafia while your nephew takes off old ladies at the subway stop is not revolutionary. If your house ain’t in order, you ain’t in order.
“Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she’s a black woman, she’s in deep trouble.” ~ Hazel Scott (jazz/classical pianist + singer)
Scott was also the second wife to the prolific & controversial New York politician, Adam Clayton Powell.

