Shout out to all the people quitting jobs, strategizing layoffs, negotiating severance packages, filing for unemployment joyfully, choosing not to use your degree, refusing to get a 9-5 yet surviving simply because you feel that your destiny is too large for a cubicle while advancing someone else’s agenda. Broker yet happier. You ain’t the only one at black elite events buying drinks with your UC compensation benefits. #ThisPostIsForYou

As long as negros continue to respond to real oppression with symbolic action, we’ll continue to have symbolic freedom.#HoodiesAndShirtsTurnedInsideOutAintAction
–The Ignant Intellectual

Not allowing released felons to come back and live in the homes of their loved ones if those loved ones received housing vouchers has little/nothing to do with protecting neighborhoods and more to do with the very brazen nature of recidivism demands, the cycle of poverty and incarceration, and viewing prisoners as labor. This is the modern day version of dividing black families by removing the patriarch. This is but one element that is strategically embedded in the system called capitalism.
–The Ignant Intellectual

Show them their purpose and their pants will probably go up on their own. Focus on their pants, and they’ll pull them up for a moment, but their minds will be unchanged.
–The Ignant Intellectual 

You ever notice how the shape of a tree from far away resembles a lung and one of the purposes of a tree is to oxygenate and cleanse air? Ever noticed how tomatoes, when sliced, resemble a brain pattern and when consumed they enhance memory and brain function? Ever noticed how cells, when magnified, resemble a galaxy, and cells are life? Yeah. Ever noticed how God is real? Yeah. Me too.
–The Ignant Intellectual

If I’m arguing about mascots like Redskins, Chiefs, Indians, and people in red face and you’re arguing about the Bill of Rights, The Constitution, and amendments, it’s clear we is on different pages. #InDifferentBooks #OnDifferentAisles  #InDifferentBookstores
–The Ignant Intellectual

We do not live in a world of vacuums. Its not oppressors over here and the oppressed over there. Its not perpetrators over here and victims over there. Oppressed people, oppress people. Usually the oppressor and the oppressed are the same damn person!
–The Ignant Intellectual

Dear Pharell Williams & Candy Crush Designers,
I would like to personally thank you for aiding in the murder of phuked up gender norms and warped notions of masculinity. Grown men everywhere uncontrollably drop everything to dance to “Happy” and can be found on every train, bus, and plane begging for Candy Crush lives. With you, all is better in the world.
Sincerely,
The Ignant Intellectual Care If Don’t Nobody Else Care

Dear Well-Intentioned People,
Praying. Hoping. Knowing better days are yet to come. Suggestions of how to feel better. How to get through. How to forgive and move on. Are not always the best response to pain. Often allowing one to sit in the middle of the fire. Directly in the center of the hurt and anger and even joining them there in the middle is far better than well-intended ideas of how to “feel better”. Love sometimes means sitting in some shyt. Silently. Loudly. Deliberately. In the ugly. Sometimes the only way out is thru.
Sincerely,
Sit With

The first three words privilege teaches you to never say? “I don’t know.”
–The Ignant Intellectual