The Woman's Word
"This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing"
-Maya Angelou
Nas - ‘Daughters’
Happy Birthday Maxwell!
“For Lovers Only” - Maxwell
Whose on the Cover? Liya Kebede covers Harper’s Bazaar Spain’s May 2012. This Ethiopian beauty has appeared on the cover of American Vogue, Vogue France, Vogue Spain, and i-D just to name a few. In 2003 she became the face of Estee Lauder cosmetic campaign, making her the first woman of color to model the luxury brand in over 50 years. With a little over ten years of modeling experience under her belt, Liya continues to stay current, fresh and always on the cutting edge of fashion. All hail Liya!
Learn more about Liya at http://www.liyakebede.com/
Joan Smalls covers the May 2012 of GQ South Africa. This Puerto Rican beauty known for her sexy pout, is currently the 3rd sought after model in the world according to models.com.
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NAS covers Complex Magazine June/July 2012
This piece shut me up. Made me think. Made my mind thoughts feel like they meant something. But more importantly, it made me feel good. Watch it!
Aja Monet - What I’ve Learned
a Camovement by Cam Be & Aja Monet
Shot by Cam Be & Aja Monet
Edited by Cam Be
Music by Miles Davis - Recollections
Filmed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York, NY
“What I’ve Learned” a poem by me in collaboration with @camovement. Here’s a video recording of a piece I wrote in grad school for a random assignment my professor and advisor, Michael Meyers, gave to me. He told me to spend an hour writing the first things that come to my mind about what I know and that gradually we could work on editing it. Unfortunately, I never edited it. I shared it one random night at a performance I had at Hofstra University in 2010, after I ran out of poems to read and found this piece folded in between my journal. I shared the poem and the audience seemed to appreciate the wandering of it…
Cam Be and I linked in NYC this past February and while there, we shot this video in the attic of the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe in the Lower East side. I love this space for so many reasons and it was pretty amazing rummaging through all the artifacts we found. Feel free to share this if you feel moved to…
here’s to a ton of spilling flaws….
always,
aja monet
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PUSH - Tisha Campbell
Nicki Minaj Photographed by Steven Klein for the March Issue of Vogue
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Tracee Ellis Ross gives me life.
Lauryn Hill gives me life.
Vashtie Kola gives me life!
Photo From vashtie.com
song: (Just Like) Water
artist: Lauryn Hill (USA)
Moving down the streams of my lifetime
Pools of fascination in my sleeve
Cooling off the fire of my longing
Boiling off my cold within his heat
Melting down the walls of inhibition
Evaporating all of my fears
Baptizing me into complete submission
Dissolving my condition with his tears
Coursing through my senses, he’s prevailing
Floating through the space of my design
Drowning me to find my inside sailing
Drinking in the mainstream of his mind
Filling up the cup of my emotions
Spilling over into all I do
If I only I could get lost in his ocean
Surviving on the thought of loving you
Bathing in the fountain of his essence
He causes my expression to remain
Humbled on a mountain by his presence
Washing my intentions with his name
Sealing off the floodgates of his passions
Saving all his liquid for his own
Moisturizing me to satisfaction
In my imagination? No no!
He’s pouring out his soul to me for hours and hours
Drawing out my nature with his hands
Yearning I’m so thirsty for his power
Burning to be worthy of his land
“Zimbabwe”- Bob Marley
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we’ll fight this little struggle,
‘Cause that’s the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
Brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We gon’ fight (we gon’ fight), we’ll have to fight (we gon’ fight),
We gonna fight (we gon’ fight), fight for our rights!
Natty Dread it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up-a in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate (Zimbabwe), yeah.
No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary,
‘Cause I don’t want my people to be contrary.
And, brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight), we gonna fight (we gon’ fight)
We’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!
