Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)

THE COLOR OF JUSTICE-we are told by drug warriors that the enemy in this war is a thing-drugs-not a group of people, but the facts prove otherwise.

Wherever you are in this world, if you are at ease, I am at ease. If you are troubled , I am troubled. This is the nature of true love. So whatever you consider, consider it first in your own mind. Then consider it again thinking only of me. Treat it as if we are one heart, one life, you and I.

“And...I want my father to respect me,” Amir said. “I want him to see me do good in life. And on his own , without my mom’s encouragement, I want him to say, “Son, you did good. You did even better than me.”... with all jokes aside finally, it sounded like he was saying something true that he actually felt and meant.

I know what kind of men to surround myself with. ~Santiaga.

A voice in my head kept telling me if I didn’t take responsibility for setting them right in their thoughts and actions, something would happen to cause me to have a break with them...I needed to do a better job at helping my friends to become more steady and true. I needed to separate the truth from the falsehood and set a better example through myself and not hide my way of life. I needed to con...

A wife is your peace, and no one should be allowed to disturb a man’s peace.

She was subtle...I understood all her hidden messages even though I never acknowledged them.

When you conquer a man’s mind, he’s finished.

My Southern Sudanese grandfather’s voice was so deep, he made the walls rattle and the snakes slide and escape deep into the ground...

I was searching for the words to decline her affections without being mean. The truth was I didn’t hate her. I didn’t even find her annoying. I thought she was real attractive and full of life and energy and jokes. But I wasn’t the type to just move on impulse. I had already thought it through thoroughly... I wasn’t interested in taking advantage of Bangs, although I knew it would be easy. I would...

Every system of control depends, for its survival, on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system’s maintenance and administration. This system is no exception... We may think we know how the criminal justice system works...with only a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, primarily by evisc...

We can lose a couple toes, and maybe a finger, but we can’t win without our heart.

She ignited the hallway with her fury. Soon there was very little oxygen to breathe. She looked like she was in killer mode, although she was still silent.

I felt bad about greeting his warmth with suspicion, but somehow , suspicion had become a significant part of me.

I purposely wanted to appear to be calm and pleasant in this “thought battle” that I was having with the Japanese men in my Wife’s family. There was no reason to tip him off that I was headed over to take back what was mine.

The world is a lot bigger than the American dollar.

Naja is our protected princess who has no idea of worry or struggle or stress. I thought that was good. I planned to protect my sister and keep her hidden away from those things that should never be revealed to little girls...your wife is his daughter. Our family has not ever been able to meet and greet him properly. We haven’t offered him anything. Yet he gave me such a lovely daughter-in-law l....

Numerous paths were available to us, as a nation, in the wake of the crack crisis, yet for reasons traceable largely to racial politics and fear mongering we chose war. Conservatives found they could finally justify an all out war on an “enemy” that had been racially defined years before...THE WAR ON DRUGS, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered Whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportun...

Early on, little effort was made to disguise the racial motivations behind the law and order rhetoric and the harsh criminal justice legislation proposed in Congress...As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. They developed instead the racially sanitized rhetoric of “cracking down on crime”-rhetoric that is now us...

You don’t need to explain to me what you want out of life or how you want your mother and sister treated. We are Muslim. We are Sudanese. We both understand and want the exact same things...pointing to the people lingering on the block. It’s them who don’t understand or care. They got no God, no boundaries, no limits, no respect for life.

A new race -neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of Blacks back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could instill a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding”law and order” rather...

In my lifetime I could work and eventually go and get more diamonds, but they would not be the same African diamonds that my father gave me in the Sudan, along with his lessons and heart and intentions and instructions. For those reasons alone, they could never be replaced.

Your passion and your heart are your assets. The best warriors are passionate and they use the thunder in their hearts to conquer anyone and to overcome any obstacle that threatens their heart.

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

I had told her everything and broke off dealing with her before anything ever really got started between us. I told her that me and her could never be. I even turned down her offers and resisted my feelings to slide my tongue into her mouth. So she had no claim on me.