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The next time you feel like God can’t use you,
just remember………..Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem
Gideon was afraid
Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal
Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
John the Baptist ate bugs
Peter denied Christ
The Disciples fell asleep while praying
Martha worried about everything
The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer
…AND
Lazarus was dead!Now, no more excuses.
God can use you to your full potential.
Besides you aren’t the message,
You are just the messenger.
I’m blogging this because I agree. Reblog if you do too.
yes, fuck a diamond!
I wish I took this picture.
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It looks like D’Angelo is officially gearing up for his comeback to the music industry! With his upcoming gig at Essence’s Music Festival, as well as being announced as one of the headliners for Jay-Z’s ‘Made In America’ festival this September, it’s evident that D’Angelo is not playing around. He even managed to snag a spread and interview in GQ magazine. Check out a few excerpts from the interview:
D’Angelo on the evil in music
There’s forces that are going on that I don’t think a lot of motherf-ckers that make music today are aware of,” he says. “It’s deep. I’ve felt it. I’ve felt other forces puling at me.” He stubs out his cigarette and leans toward me, taking my hand. “This is a very powerful medium that we are involved in,” he says gravely.” “I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know? The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of the energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you’ve got to be careful.”Paul Hunter (Director of Untitled) on the videobeing misunderstood
Most people think the ‘Untitled’ video was about sex, but my direction was completely opposite of that. It was about his grandmother’s cooking. Think of your grandmother’s greens, how it smelled in the kitchen. What did the yams and the fried chicken taste like? That’s what I want you to express.” The video may have looked like foreplay, but it was actually about family, Hunter insists-about intimacy.
Later when I tell D’Angelo this, he says, “It’s so true: We talked about the Holy Ghost and the church before that take. The veil is the nudity and the sexuality. But what they’re really getting is the spirit.D’Angelo on the effects of the ‘Untitled’ video
One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel like f-cked-up, and I threw the money back at her. I was like, ‘I’m not a stripper.’
On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D’Angelo told him, “Yo, man, I cannot wait until this f-cking tour is over. I’m going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.” Questlove thought he was joking. “I was like, ‘You’re a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen.That’s how much he wanted to distance himself.”
I will say that I’m interested in hearing the new music he has been working on!
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I turned 23 years old today, what is it like? It’s fun, I had a blast last night, saw most of my friends at a function…we drank, drank, and drank some more. Made it home safe of course, my guardian angel took the wheels. Much Glory to that. But alike the fun aside I feel like my future is about turn right turns away, I have to stay on course with the things I’m currently doing, be diligent and before I know it I’ll be reading my scores and it’ll say 90 percentile. With that said I just wanted to post something original, and say happy birthday to myself since this is my blog. O_o . Lol. Glad to be 23, grateful for all the things God has done for me. Really this has been a dope week so far. Got baptized on sunday and then my birthday on tuesday. Can’t complain. Now back to studying.
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