I’ve been snowed in for the past five days thanks to “Snowmaggedon 2010” and started to get a little stir crazy until the Gods of random tv programming heard my prayers and a little gem of a movie came across my television screen — Claudine. Needless to say, I squealed like I was told I would be advancing to the next round of American Idol.
“…he was looking for a wife. I wasn’t looking for a husband, but he was a wonderful human being…I still resisted his overtures, but after he persisted, I had to pray about it…I had a dream, and in that dream, I was made to feel that I should allow myself to be open and stop fighting the relationship. That’s what I did, and of course the rest is history. ” — Coretta Scott King
Janie awoke next morning by feeling Tea Cake almost kissing her breath away. Holding her and caressing her as if he feared she might escape his grasp and fly away. Then he must dress hurriedly and get to his job on time… But she stayed in bed long after he was gone.
So much had been breathed out by the pores that Tea Cake still was there. She could feel him and almost see him bucking around the room in the upper air. After a long time of passive happiness, she got up and opened the window and let Tea Cake leap forth and mount to the sky on a wind. That was the beginning of things.
- “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Zora Neale Hurston*
*Just learned Ms. Hurston wrote this literary masterpiece in Haiti in 1937. My prayer is that God bless the beautiful people of Haiti right now and let them know the world is praying for them.
Supermodel Love. Models Sessile Lopez and Wendell Lissimore get their cute couple on. Loves it!
(Reposted from Harlem Loves blog)
Damn, it’s 2009 and we are just getting a black Disney princess, is it too much to ask for her to have a black prince charming? That would have made me rush out to see this film and take every little girl and boy I know, but now… umph… I’ll get to it when I get to it. I’m just saying…
Michelle Obama proudly supporting her husband as he receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
Radio/Video DJ Donnie Simpson and his 30+ year marriage to his beautiful wife Pam wasn’t without its bump and bruises. After a three year separation they reconciled and have never looked back.
Actress Malinda Williams and her DJ/Photographer husband, Derrick “D-Nice” Jones married in August 2008. They are too cute for words.
If I believed everything that came across my tv/computer screen/radio, I would believe it has been a hard couple of weeks/months/years for Black Love. Infidelity is running rampant…Tiger Woods is teeing off with every cocktail waitress and VIP hostess on the East Coast (okay, I know he thinks of himself as Caublasian and he’s wife isn’t black, but to me I see a black man and that makes it a quasi-black relationship…I know it’s a stretch, but just deal with it as I try to make my point).
