“Once you have taken a few punches and realize that you are not made of glass, you don’t feel alive unless you are pushing yourself to the edge”
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June 2012
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In a time where life is often guided by misconception and tainted love its hard to truly find someone who is there for you for all the right reasons. No matter how you deliver your heart to a person, you still have to wait for them to open it up. I came up with this concept to inspire honesty. I’ve learned through life, communication is everything when you’re in a relationship. Take these visuals as an example of how something could be if there is no truth between two parties. She/He is your prototype and could be so much more if you allow it. Never Take The Love Of Your Believer For Granted. Much Thanks to Andre 3000
- Jesse Boykins III
” —Fuck This Fucking Country.
Fuck the mindset. Fuck the colorism. Fuck the fucking excuses for their fuck ass attitudes toward Haiti. Fuck the fact that they hang on to the 15% of European blood left in their fuck asses. Fuck the fact that they cannot admit to their own identity crisis, though it stares them in the face. Fuck the professors who look at me as if I’m stupid while I describe the experiences my friends and I have had and then respond that they have no idea why such rude treatment occured. Fuck the fact that I feel uncomfortable walking down the fucking street. Fuck the fact that they let me use the bathroom in a club because of my complexion but wouldn’t let my dark complexioned friend do the same. Fuck the Jamaican bouncer who was complacent and then told my friends that they were, ” Pretty for Haitian girls” in spanish. Fuck the fuck ass politicans and citizens in this country who make up excuses for the massacre of thousands of Haitian Dominicans under Trujilio’s Regime and who still can’t express remorse for their deaths. Fuck the fact that in their musuem they have to display their AFRICAN heritage behind a wall. Fuck them. Fuck what they stand for. Fuck their mindset. Fuck their culture. FUCK THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
A Note: So, I wrote that when I was very angry. Very angry & with a lot of tequila in my system. Those are not my true sentiments. I wouldn’t take back this experience for the world. There are a lot of things that I am still trying to understand, things that I will probably never understand and that is ok. This is what study abroad is about right. Experiencing a culture and in turn anaylzing yourself and the world. A lot of my sentiments expressed above are not and were not fair. Just raw emotion and hurt.
