In this moment where things have winded down a bit, I’ve come to understand that identity is just as fluid as time itself. It can change with the wind where one moment is not and will never be like the ones before. With this knowledge—this very quiet knowledge—is then the wisdom to adapt and change ourselves. This is the true capacity of our power; to remove ourselves from our relative situations as to not become a product of them but to master them by mastering ourselves. Discipline and patience and temperance are akin to the kind of Fortitude one must need…but that fortitude is not standing as a rock or a pillar against the wind, it is to become unburdened and as light as a feather to move with the wind.
Water stays water whether its Frozen, liquid, or even hot up to the point where it might evaporate into the air only to become a part of everything else or condense enough to reappear as water again.
We stay motivated to created because of that surrounds us. We are products of the past leading up to the present full of hopes and dreams of what should come tomorrow. Coming out of and a lasting aspect of the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s, we’re forever appreciative and acknowledge the importance of what informed and influenced us. Civil Rights, Hip Hop, Neo-Soul and R&B, Positive Black and Brown Images within media that reinforced principles and values to making things better for us all, we believe we got the best out of humanity. Because of that, we have the potential to being the best of humanity.
It’s not just about positive media of and about Black and Brown people, it also includes those of many races and classes and cultures around the world that stood to fight for Equality and Equity—Justice and Fairness. The Art that would inform the potential for a greater and innovative future came from many directions. Artists like Jean-Michael Basquiat, Nikki Giovanni, Cornel West, Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle and James Baldwin have helped to shape a view and paradigm of the world encouraging all people to find purpose and meaning within their humanities. Families and friends. Inclusive work environments and those social scenes that welcomed and valued different perspectives on style, music, history and life. We live our lives within a richness that could never be denied. Diminished and distorted perhaps but never denied.
While commercialization has leveraged the use of ideas and concepts that do not always add to the progressive and innovative development of communities, we understand the importance of a place and space for people to grow and excel freely. We want to be or at least encourage places and spaces like that.