MMA (Monday Morning Armor)

Everyday we are in the fight of our lives, take this inspiration with you to stave off hunger. Let out a battle cry of joy, to lay peace upon your heart!

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Through The Fire

Sometimes in life when we are busy working out jobs, or being "regular" in life we see accidents on our journey. Many of us have seen accidents as a daily routine of life, just a glance and then we go back to our fast paced life.

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Cliff Notes

A NOTE OF WARNING… Don’t become spiritually destitute; don’t have a famine of the soul! You must always have something of value to add to your spiritual bank or you will become overdrawn and in spiritual deficiency!

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Creative Wordfare

The cure and the cancer, the words are so powerful,they are the prescription and the dosage is the answer!

Notable Quote

There is no better exercise for strengthening your heart than stooping to lift someone else. Today encourage someone with a word, look, or a touch of faith! This day be there for someone in a way you never expected God to be there for you! Stay encouraged, as we encourage each other!

God... Do you care?

Society never seems to report the good news anymore. When you look at CNN, ABC, and 60 minutes there are no more feel good stories of bravery in the world. There are no images of hope, just despair, calamity, and confusion in the midst of spiritual guerrilla warfare.

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Choices

Mistakes are made, people are provoked. Everyday we make choices to choke our dreams or clear our throat of some hope that is hanging by a string.

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Hot? Cold? Or Lukewarm?

Many of us have relationships that are hitting on something. Some are stuck in a stagnant situation and we choose to stay apart of them. Or we choose to stray a part of them!

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Priority to Self

Sometimes we are in a position of aid, and we overdo and overlook the responsibilities we have to ourselves. We look to help out the others in our world, but do we remember how much of a supply and demand that we have to aid with? At times it can feel as if we are close to shore. There to help those drowning in doubt, fear who have been marooned to the island of hopelessness in life!

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Grade's in da A's

To be atypical, type A, an a- keeps you in the grade of A. We all strive for a name of perfection that is insane to obtain. Work a million hours of overtime to be a famous person with a grade of A, but at the same time, on the tick tock of the life clock we become impure like ethanol, filled with gas like beans, only to come up short and get an A-.

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Are You Hungry or Starving...

In my quest to become who I am, to those I am, to where I am leads me to ask the question is I hungry or am I starving. When I ask the question it is a proposition for us to listen to the rumbles in our hearts that resonate to the actions of our minds. Do we wish to be a great person to gain fame, a different name, diamond necklace, a place to rest our morals so we can run the streets, with no principals and no beat?

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An Urge To Hibernate

We inherently have the urge to act inappropriately and also have the desire to anonymous in our day to day affairs. Like an iPhone to AT&T these two partners do their best to convince us that we can afford to use our free will recklessly without paying the price of our admissions of sin.

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Joi to the World

It is soooooo beautiful to see someone you grew-up with grow to become a beautiful beacon of light for the world to see. I am  honored and blessed to see a dear friend doing God's work. She has always been a joy to the world, and now for all to see her shine! Joi I'm proud of you and all that you are doing, God is truly using you for your purpose in life!

Freedom to Preach

A blessing in life carries a huge responsibility that most are not will to undertake when it comes to truly doing something revolutionary. The blogging scene is a new frontier I have embarked upon to get my feet wet on the journalistic side of the internet; In theory blogs are an old way people have communicated for generations. Its an update of the neighborly small community information that was passed from person to person of our Southern roots. The group at the Barbershop, the hairdresser, the people in our small town we know by name and see everyday. That is what the African American community was built on, a small village that lent out hands to raise each other.Information was never questioned because it was always from a credible and valid source. The truth was known because in that small arena everyone knew about everybody. Maybe the message changed a few times because some added their own Jeezy ad-lib, or a Diddy remix to it, but the core of the story remained the same.

The urban blog game as it stands now is a joke! Everybody and they mama thinks they can write a credible article because they stole, footage, information, or work someone else put they foot in. Authentic writing and information is that, real! Just because I watch TV, or listen to music, or know one person in the biz doesn't give me a voice! As I type these words I too and included in the population of those that think they can blog.

I reached out to Gyant at Gyantunplugged.com and told him I had a vision, and without listening to him I ran with my thoughts and never looked back. I told me of how he has worked his way up from the bottom. Paid his dues, but he always had the same theme throughout. People these days don's get paid for their dues. The ones who do skipped steps, sold out, or bought in to an idea that something like the imagery of ones mind was free! We all have ideas but we must go out with a purpose, not be Paul Revere and just shout some tom foolery so someone can say " what he is saying is the truth" and have no idea of what we speak.

Bloggers today are cut throat, sell you out so they can touch on Gucci Mane diamond ropes. Get an exclusive that another blog might have covered hours prior and call it a news flash. Your right it was, it flashed on your twitter ticker and you grabbed some pics and info, and hit the copy and paste, and voila, so you think your a blogger? Don't sit in Iraq in a bunker and report news that has already been covered, go out get your hands dirty and find the news! Go into your heart, hit the search button for Love of the game, take those thought you have had for years and speak the truth from your mind! Pour that Bisquick mix of something edible for you to eat and understand.

To put you in the game you have to pay your dues and put your imprint on the game. Do the homework for free, put whoever you feel has something valuable, and work on your blog for free! People have done this for years. The blogs have been here for years, and now we act as if we can all talk about the same things. There are only a select number in the NBA, NFL, etc! We must know where we came from, and know who paved the way, for us to speak freely, and write! Urban blogs like straightfromthea, gyantunplugged, shuddup k.i.m, and concreteloop, have some gossip involved in their content. How many people know where they started or came from, what they have been through? The fact of the matter is that is not all they are about. They have created a canvas, painted a picture and give insightful information on events that have some meaning to the African-American community. It is opinionated but they look to bring us the information for no fillers, no bs.

People in our community need to recognize bloggers who are on their grind, going to cover events, sitting down for the interviews. Ever one who starts a blog these days wants the fame for the game with no hard work. No paying you dues, but getting things for free. Nothing is free if you haven't done any work!!! I keep hearing alot of people complain and go at each other's neck because one person broke a story and another person ran with it! Everyone on the internet can eat! I have never in my life seen HBO go after Showtime, ABC go after NBC. What you see in White America is cooperation to get more content, and more viewrs. In the grand scheme of things that is the best way to get more people to follow the movement! Im not sure if you didnt notice but bloggers don't paid money for their efforts. A REAL blogger does this for the love, not the affection of fans, or people knowing their name, their brand, where they are going to be, but a REAL blogger can be seen by the LOVE! I know Love of the game isn't real to everyone, but it is truly a vision of something never seen. It is a passion to do soethin you Love to do, but at the end of the day we need to stand up for those who paved our way, and make sure they get paid!

In general we are victim of our own success. People in this era do not realize we are held captive by the information we take in and send out like a fax. In this day and age with CNN, the internet, being exclusive means you were the first person that you knew that was smart enough to package the drug (information, gossip, insert your own definition!) cook it up (stir some value), cut it (take out the parts you knew no one would want to hear), and supplied it to the people you knew would send the information over the Gosspnet. That's right the internet is no longer a thought pad. Joe Budden's said it best in his cipher freestyle " I aint spit Ether yet, you need a major I just need an Ethernet." All you fake bloggers out there with mediocre pages, having your people, or someone else but you create your vision when you never learned what CSS, HTML, or worpress is! Get a  real DJ, get a clue! "Be a student of the game, not a teacher's pet!" Learn the game first, reach out to some of urban blogs pioneers before you start throwing shots at the throne. Be quick before they get grab Macbook laptop's and start a revolution on your blog!

If you don't like truth I'm speaking to you, I know Serena will, Im coming with the truth, I will get the US open like Serena. This the body issue from my thoughts on the game, you cannot fine me or take away my crown, I wont have to go Australian to go down under ground, God is my voice, here him speak out, no LOL or laughing out loud!

P.S: I am no where near done writing on the blog game...... part 2

Bound up Frustration?

When God promotes you, you are EXALTED! Temptation will come, ridicule will come, criticism will come, but you are better equipped to stave off elimination from grace.

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Baby Asprin

Sometimes words sound like riddles, quotes like fairy tales, and scriptures are like dreams! We have to remember that inspiration is what touches the very core of our soul. That thing that sparks the quenched fire inside you, that allows the binded up dream, hope, aspiration, anything to resurrect itself back to fruition. Never be afraid to be who you need to be to God and yourself first!

Irrigation System

Someone in your life today can plant the seed that will get you to grow into the next stage of things in your life. These people fertilize your dreams, mow down the weeds that deter your growth, and get on their hands and knees to bare all to help you move through the muck in your life.

God waters their work and fuels the efforts through sunlight, rain, and shade. He will always regulate how much light, rain, and shade you need to grow to your potential. The food you need to survive is always in the soil that was prepared for you. You can make it through any season of the year as long as you stay rooted in your row of the field!

Fairy Tale vs. Stone Cold Truth

There is no myth behind what God can do! Yes he has performed miracles, and yet at the same time he knows how to fall back. Miracles are momentary acts of miracles! The sustaining things in life are those that are tried and true measures, not momentary junk food, but sustaining bread! Wholesome and basic!

Standing Room Only Experience

I want to give a BIG shout out to @MarkCurryBook... I follow his quotes and they give me some extra motivation to challenge myself to reinvent what quotes are. What good conversation is, and how to reach @ least one person! For that Mr.Curry thank you!!!

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Are We Talking Our Way Out Of Our Dreams?

I had a conversation with a friend and she told me how we can sometimes talk about what we want to do more than actually get to our goals. There is a poignant moment when people hear you speak about what you want to do. People need to see what you do through you, not hear the witty banter that is given to give the appearance that you are reaching your goals.

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