A Scribe Called Quess?

Notes from the journey Buy my latest book here: https://squareup.com/store/a-scribe-called-quess/

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THE BIO | Quess

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What's that? You still haven't gotten your tickets to #RAW Artists Fixate when the link's in the bio?? And only 6 tickets left w/ the next 4 BUY ONE GET ONE FREE and sales end tomorrow??? What is you doing behby!? https://www.rawartists.org/tickets/purchase/2165/328140 📷@

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Rise & grind beautiful people. This is your reminder that I'm doing a set for a few hundred folks at #RAWArtists in 11 days and I want you in that number. The first 2 tickets I sell today are BUY 1 GET 1 FREE! Inbox or DM me soon as you buy it so we can work out logistics. Can't make it? Support me by sharing this post or buying a ticket I can sponsor someone else with. Let's Geaux!!! Link in bio and here: https://www.rawartists.org/tickets/purchase/2165/328140 (at Republic NOLA)

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And then spoken word finally returned to television. Except this time it came by way of the South. And your big sister got to be the host. And 1/2 the cast was yo' kinfolk. And they asked you to be in that number. And it all happened on your birthday. "And it was all a dream!" Cept it wasn't cause it was really your life and you woke up and said "Mama I made it." #prayersanswered #starsalligned #poweroftheuniverse

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Ok now this is more like it. Still #RAWArtists flow. Just better #representation on the flyer. Lol. Help me hit my goal of 18 in the next 10 days! Cop tickets at link in bio! (at Republic NOLA)

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Curated my first PD in 3 years today. Give thanks to activists Malik Rahim, founder of the Louisiana chapter of the Black Panthers, Robert King of the #Angola3, Malcolm Suber of #TakeEmDownNOLA and #PeoplesAssemblyNOLA and Dr. Rev. Marie Galatas, the first to call for removal of white supremacist monuments in New Orleans. It was unspeakably epic and powerful to have over 150 years of organizing history in a school building helping relay the importance of #CulturallyRelevantPedagogy to the staff at #MartinBehrmanCharter School. Not pictured: Dr. Clyde Robertson and Linda Hill of SUNO who are bringing to our school the first Center for African & African American Studies to be integrated into a school since before Katrina. I've done over a dozen actions, rallies and protest in the last few years. I can't say that any of them were any more important than what happened today. Nothing better than bringing it black home. Hollaz to my egun. 😉🙏✊ (at Martin Behrman Charter School: Academy of Creative Arts and Sciences)

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So I'm doing a set for #rawartists showcase in 3 weeks. Purchase tickets w/ link in bio! Feel free to share this post. (at Republic NOLA)

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Pardon the late IG notice (already200+ confirmed on Facebook), but this is tonight and you-yes YOU ARTISTS OF COLOR especially- should come. #TakeEmDownNOLA #studiobe (at Studio Be)

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One more time for my @takeemdownnola family yesterday on a job well done. Special shouts to the educators in #TakeEmDownNOLA leadership (nearly all of us) for taking our message from the classroom to the streets. As I made that point on the bullhorn yesterday I saw my school principal walking to the front of the crowd and knew that all was as it should be. #whenthestarsallign #conjure #wordpower #charlottesvillesolidarity #heatherheyer (at Congo Square Preservation Society)

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Rest in Power Baba. Thanks for all the wisdom, righteous rage and joy. No one embodied black humor and political consciousness in the same vessel like you. Glad to count you among the ancestors I'll be calling on. #RIPDickGregory

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Hi, I am a writer for Scholastic, which publishes educational news magazines for kids nationwide. I am writing a feature about the push to remove confederate monuments from public property, focusing on New Orleans in particular. Would it be possible for me to interview you? We could talk by phone or email. The interview would take about 10-15 minutes by phone. My deadline is July 26. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Laura Anastasia, lanastasia-tempATscholasticDOTcom

Hi. I'm just getting this message. Are you still working on this?

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#TakeEmDownNOLA outchea making waves in the name of #charlotesvillesolidarity and #heatherheyer and #takeemalldown till we wash all this white supremacist shit out of sight AND substance. This is #no filter btw. My camera got possessed and my ancestors is just #wavy like that. (at Jackson Square)

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When you kayak in the swamp. And then come home... To a swamp. 😂 #NOLA #blackboyjoy #swamplife (at Honey island swamp Tour)

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"The time our fathers bought for us resides in a place no man can reach. Except he be prepared to reduce himself into smashing bits of bleached bone. Which is indeed the great tempratuon, beckoning this disastrous nation." 1ne of my favorite gems from Uncle Jimmy. Everything you can say about white supremacy and #heteropatriarchy in one swoop. BOOM. Happy Birthday Unk. Maferefun Egungun. #jamesbaldwin

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Let's not say goodbye Cuba. Let's just say Hasta luego. #Cuba #Biggie #Che #ElCommandante #latergram (at Viñales, Cuba)

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Thank you Urban League for the honors. (at Hilton New Orleans Riverside)

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When you know TSA gon check your hair anyway. #fuckittho #fasciststatement #lookmom #issanewstyle (at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport)