Just a copywriter and brand strategist that writes poems by candlelight.
denim... and catchy headlines.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. - Charles Mingus
The power of wordplay. Give me any word and I can make an acronym out of it. I dare you.
Community garden coordinator
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Jonathan’s CreativeMornings activity
If anxiety feeds itself, so, too, does confidence.
I think I was told what a lot of kids of colour, who are the only 'fill in the blank' in situations, were told: You have to work harder and achieve more than everyone else.
My thought is a landmine.
They cannot imprison my soul.
They cannot imprison my thoughts.
Dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
It's not about the work, it's about you; how you think about it, how you feel about it.
I get paid to be James Victore! ... It means I don't have to make anything up!
You guys have dreams.
Making work that matters means making work that matters to you.
You came here...to fully experience the things that made you weird as a kid. The things that made you weird as a kid, make you great today.
Your purpose is your North Star. It's a path that you follow... It's how we follow through with our commitment to ourselves.
A purpose is a reason to get out of the bed in the morning.
If we consider, honestly, how we are organized,[socially, economically] we will will see that, in fact, we are all victims, some more than others.
Each person has, to varying degrees, a certain level of complicity in the system that oppresses folks.
Folks are always concerned with where they go when they die but fewer folks think about where they were before they were born.
We all have a responsibility to tell the truth about who we are as a nation. When we do that, we begin to relate to one another better, we see our humanity in each other.
Purposeful collective action can change our nation and the world.
We have a social responsibility to preserve these places to never forget who we are.
A lot of people look at jazz and they think it's just kind of unfettered randomness, when actually there's a process going on. Each one of these musicians is both a leader and a follower.