Kiza Magendane

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Words of a lost generation

I will allow these limited words to transfer the voice of a generation living in the void - where history is too coloured to embrace and home is too concrete to hold on. I will transfer these words of a lost generation - too old to share the same home with their parents and too young to share the same home with the colonisers of their parents. Because with the sea and ships they shared a new home, a new world where the discovery begins where the heart stop to beat, Let them touch our hearts and break our silence, Maisha, Vincent, Koffi, Abullah, Polele.. those were their names, And they gave us words, Words, Let these words create hope and create tears in our soul These words of a lost generation - Kiza Magendane - Words of a lost generation (2016)

[theparisreview]

Reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Annie Proulx, The Art of Fiction No. 199 (via theparisreview)

[bazaardotco]

The idea that everybody thinks they’re specialists with voices that deserve to be heard has actually made everyone’s voice less meaningful. All we’re doing is setting ourselves up to be sold to — to be branded, targeted and data-mined. But this is the logical endgame of the democratization of culture and the dreaded cult of inclusivity, which insists that all of us must exist under the same umbrella of corporate regulation — a mandate that dictates how we should express ourselves and behave.

Bret Easton Ellis on Living in the Cult of Likability (via phdonohue)

[kizamagendane]

What do we do?

[kizamagendane]

Happy #newyear #2015 #instabeard #writer #thinker #germany #afroboy #instagood #hakunamatata

[kizamagendane]

How can we explain life, If the beauty of rythm disappear? Come, Dance with And ambrace me.

[artemis-anne]

PLEASE tell me I’m not the only one that wants to see Audrey with Duke!!! 

Seriously. Am I only in this ship?

[kizamagendane]

She was a song - R.I.P Fantani Touré

Darkness calls,  Her face disappears But for sure, Her voice will live as long as we live

Open up your eyes world Understand these wounds in my heart See how a star disappears,  Take a moment And realise.

We lost a song,  A song that made us sing,  We lost a dream,  A dream that made us dream

Take a moment world,  Realise with me that: She will continue to live,  For,  What can take a song away from us?  As long as we have ears and feelings,  We will carry her into our heart. 

R.I.P Fantani Touré. #RIPFantaniTouré

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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Danielle LaPorte  (via winter-minds)

[kizamagendane]

You look too pretty to be useful. #Toscane @ShadMukalenga 

[kizamagendane]

Haar Missen Je zult in het leven vaak beseffen dat het leven niet draait om het success dat je hebt zonder iemand om dat mee te delen,

[adrianabear3]

Thank you sir Anna!

Taxichauffeurs zijn lief, maar ze kennen slechts het woord cash en thank you in het Engels. (via adrianabear3)

[kizamagendane]

174 woorden tegen verdeling en voor eenheid in Nederland.

In een debat is het belangrijk om naar de tegenstander te luisteren. Niet alleen omdat dit prettig is, maar luisteren leidt tot begrip en begrip leidt tot samenkomst en uiteindelijk tot oplossingen. In verschillende debaten in dit land, ook onder dit platform debateert men in eenrichtingsverkeer. Wij versus zij tegenstellingen worden gecreeërd. Mensen die de PVV van haat zaaien verwijten doen…

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[kizamagendane]

Letter to the World: Breaking The Silence About Ebola

Dear World, I have been quit about what we call Ebola, but this definitely is a level where we should look into each othersvirtual eyes and speak the truth. I am afraid that I have the responsibility to break this silence right now and I only have a few words to say. How would the world react if more than 2000 people in West Europe lost their lives by a disease that actually has medicine already but no one is willing to spread it? What would you do if you knew that a disease existed that was deliberately created by lobbies with different mysterious agendas? And this is not a conspiracy, let me be clear.

So while the black continent is crying, I wonder what you can do to stop this impunity. Meanwhile, I go back to my silence and see millions of money being transmitted to Africa and thousand of troops. The conclusion? There must always be a reason to control Africa. If not by force, by ideology, or by creating reasons. There must always be a reason to keep the African continent behind. African, wake up! World wake up. See what you are seeing but neglecting. I wonder what we will tell the future generations. For now, I go back to my silence again and read poetry and forget about the World. Such a faire place to leave, right?

Maybe I should keep dreaming, just like Langston Hughes

"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow."

[kizamagendane]

Een beter mens

Niet beter ten opzichte van anderen, nee, want iedereen kent zijn beperking. De luie student, de dronken echtgenoot die vreemd gaat en de roekeloze columnist die denkt ten alle tijden gelijk te hebben. Iedereen kent zijn beperkingen. Maar een beter mens ben je ten opzichte van jezelf. Ten opzcihte van wie je een minuut geleden was.

Dat gevoel. Ken je dat? Het gevoel op een dag dat je innerlijke…

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[kizamagendane]

Maak de goudenkoets een nationale monument

Eerlijk is eerlijk, de goudenkoets verdient een plek in een museum. Ik weet dat dit voor sommigen problematisch is, maar, is het te veel gevraagd om een koets vol aafbeeldingen van slaven een plek in een museum te geven? Dat is niet heel vreemd, omdat een museum een plek is waar wij het verleden kunnen terug zien en daaruit lessen kunnen trekken waar nodig. Denk hier aan het jüdisches museumin…

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Lupita Nyong’o Named People’s “Most Beautiful Person”!

"I remember a time when I too felt unbeautiful. I put on the TV and only saw pale skin. I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin…finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be…and what my mother meant when she said you can’t eat beauty was that you can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What does sustain us… what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul…and so I hope that my presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty" (from her acceptance speech for Breakthrough Performance Award at the 7th annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon).