Her warriors were the boon and bane of men. Once a year men were allowed to spend 24 hours on the island, after which, under pain of horrible death, they were ordered to leave. Oh yeah.
La Reine Mere D’afrique (Miriam Makeba, Mother Africa)
La Reine Mere d'Afrique, now in her seventh decade and still performing well, has been married to two giants. Hugh Masakela in her early years, then later to Stokeley Carmichael.
'Frederick!', she would gently chastise her old friend, 'Your words fly higher than what I remember. Join 'em up!' She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
I have several reasons to give honor to this man. As a politician who repped my district in congress he did so impeccably and with telling effect. He is also the patron 'Godfather' of the ArtShip.
"I love my children, and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, and die gladly, if that would make a better life for them," he stated on June 7, 1963.
He was shot in the back a week later.
'Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that'.
Thus spoke the Dreamer.
April 4, 1968. King is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray
At that moment 'When they shot Malcolm Little down
On the stage of the Audubon Ballroom,
When his life ran out through bullet holes...'
Assassinated in 1965.
From the poem by Raymond R. Patterson
On the chittlin' circuit Tina would request, no, command that men from the audience dance with her with her stupefying energy and raw sexuality. I chickened out. A man ought to know his limitations.
It is said that the Universe began as a tiny thing, at atomic dimensions or less, becoming this thing that contains all that ever was and all that will ever be. Perhaps it started just like this.
