I’m like the LION,
I’m like the LION, i’m not the GAZELLE Eric Thomas
Gazelles
America has this understanding
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. Djimon Hounsou
Every morning in Africa,
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun … Read more
Oh, ever thus, from
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour, I ‘ve seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But ‘t was the first to fade away. I never nurs’d a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was … Read more
In the studio, I
In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff. Big Sean
The carved images on
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly – up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their … Read more
Astronomy says: the sun
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down. Albert Goldbarth
It doesn’t matter whether
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running. Abe Gubegna