November 6 2012

Music History Fact Of The Week

Lena Horne, who was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was an acclaimed actress, activist, and singer. In 1933, at the age of 16, she joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club, New York City. This was her entry into the entertainment industry. Interestingly, she is said to come from the lineage of former U.S. Vice President, John Calhoun.

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November 5 2012

Love Your Life: Monday, November 5, 2012

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places- and there are so many- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” -Howard Zinn

Have a fly day!

Lots of Love,

Starface

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November 2 2012

Love Your Life: Friday, November 2, 2012

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those who they oppress.” -Frederick Douglass

Have a fly day!

Lots of Love,

Starface

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