Waiting
Waiting to give a talk at a symposium at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.
It was fun. I met many people.
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Waiting to give a talk at a symposium at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.
It was fun. I met many people.
Of ego purge me
Of vanity exorcise me
Of hate, of envy, jealousy
Of covetousness cleanse me
My patient is dead. I pulled out the stethoscope, and thermometer, took the temperature, measured the…
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Rites of Passage
Medium: silicon on paper
Date: 2020
Words matter.
Choose them carefully today.
Don’t use words to hurt others,
however good it might feel to hurt them.
Use your words to empower others.
Use your words like building blocks.
Words are worthy and useful only when you use them
to build a better world.
SAY IT NOW
When you speak to yourself at night
be not afraid to speak truth
to thunder using the language of proverbs
to deliver music to homeless soldiers
eating from street dumpsters
with long spoons dining with the devil
wearing rifles loaded with a silver lining
The Heavy Secret
Sometimes some secrets
are just too heavy to carry.
When you load people
with a secret they cannot carry
they will drop it
and it will break