"Times are changing. Now, it's about who can be the best them! Because the real power has and will always be with you." - Nikki NTU
This is an excerpt from our interview with one of our 21 Go Getters, Nikki NTU. All of the interviews will inspire you. Issue 10 will be up soon. Sign up for the newletter and you'll be one of the first to know.
The last time I used my passport, I was a senior in high school. It was my first time going back to Trinidad, where I am from, since I immigrated to America. I have only two stamps in it. Shame on me! I am super excited to get my third. Stay tuned for more on my next location. Can you guess where I am going? Before the division, it was once known as the island of Hispaniola...
I love my No Label watch. Big thanks to the homie, Show for the gift. It's smooth wrist wear, and a lot of people have recognized it when they see me rocking it. I couldn't decide how to photograph it, so JUMP for another pic.
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I spent the night in the ER because I'm sadly a sick woman. This has come at the worst time. There really is no right time to be sick though. So I'd like to use My Day Friday to encourage you all to make sure you take care of yourself. As young people we tend to take care of everyone and everything before ourselves. And that ends with me now. For one, I need to get more sleep. I need to exercise. I need to eat 3 meals a day. I need to cut back on the red meat, as sad as that makes me. I need to change my whole diet actually. Which means less junk, like fast food and Chinese, or all the candy I eat when I got the munchies. Now, when we're young is the best time to be taking better care of our bodies. I want to be old like Madonna. I want to age gracefully and still be full of youth and life. It's all about moderation and I have to stick with that. I won't say goodbye to pork chops, but I'll say 'see ya once in a while'. If we don't better ourselves now, we'll be sorry later.
As some of you know, I attend the University of New Hampshire and if you don't know anything about New Hampshire, that's a HUGE influence on this post. Yesterday, world-renowned poet, activist, educator and author Nikki Giovanni gave the keynote for our annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Using words to describe her brilliance would be like loosing a race by .01 seconds. The presence of such an icon in a white ignorant state as New Hampshire was so grand and for once, I'm sure, the minority community was able to feel above. The house was not pack as it was last year when Angela Davis came, however, the air was thick as everyone took their seat ready to listen. Strangely enough, the thickness in the air was splashed with a bucket of water as mounts of laughing entered. The poet was a comedian, or perhaps it was just greatness and for almost two hours I was privileged.
We had a blast at our Re-launch/2 year anniversary party. You kids are some party animals! Look at the joy on our faces. So many more amazing photos will be up soon.
Today is my day, me, xavier,(SEX)avier. I chose to use today to get ready to leave the nest. On Sunday I will be leaving home for the first time and moving on down to Long Island for school. I left all of my jobs with my middle finger in the air and im feeling refreshed, ready to just start new. I also found a bunch of old clothes and things including this nifty 21-7 Mag shirt!!!
I miss my Palm Centro phone =( But although that phone is long gone, I still have all its media on my computer. I have some of the best photos on there. Jump to see some of them.
Lyndon and A-list in my bedroom, when we lived in Oneonta.
Dominique & in our lovely old home
Fresh5 mural in East NY
Always with tattoo ideas
I love turtles.
Barnes and Noble books I would read in between FIT classes.
I use to take pics in my job's fitting room all the time. No matter how late, lol.
Cha Cha in A-list's old dorm
How adorable is my nephew X-man
My boy Wiz, and his daughter Courtney, when she was a newborn
Central Park flowers
I actually took this pic, one late night coming home from Sway. I was on the A train with Ric.
I love the combination of blue and brown in this lady's owl tattoo.
We did the Run and Eat radio show with Dj ehTMills last Friday. We had too much fun and met some great people. Listen to the hilarious time we had here!
As you guys have read =) today is my birthday! I'm fucking 23 years old. I feel really blessed to see 2010, and to see this age. I'm really proud of myself. I graduated college, I have the business of my dream, a some-what stable job, that I'm actually pretty good at, and I have beautiful friends. I'm a year closer to being filthy rich! I'm going to continue to grow into the positive, hopeful, productive, and influential hippie I want to be.
Thank you all for being involved in my life, big or small.
Here are some great quotes I found about birthdays/age!
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.”
-Anonymous
“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.”
-Unknown
"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year. The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again."
-Menachem Mendel Schneerson
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
-George Bernard Shaw
"Live your life and forget your age."
-Norman Vincent Peale
*photo was taken from my palm centro about a year or so ago. But i dig it.
