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{Homeboy-Sapien Afrikanas: Santanus} Digital Artist & Storyteller, this performer @ heart possesses the uncanny ability to be on beat...to anything.Extremely random yet resourceful, nocturnal yet fascinated by the sun, Santanus has been known to freestyle bad SONGS to entertain himself & annoy others. Hedonist (so his mama says), makes a screw face when he's really feeling a track and gets crunk during a recital of BIG's "Juicy" or Wu Tang's "C.R.E.A.M". Music can also calm the savage beast as he is easily tranquilized by a harmonious rendition of "sky can you feel me" or "slowly surely". Native to the People’s Republic of Brooklyn,surviving off of a diet of rice n beans, platanos maduros and the occasional animal, it is also tradition to eat Pumpernickel bagels exclusively during Black History month.Things Peoples Say... First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.- Mohandas Gandhi "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see"Question Everything."Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" -Gandhi"The primary objective of the fine arts is to get a purely emotional reaction from the beholder" - Walt Disney"the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein
"Be who you are and say how you feel. Those that matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter." -Dr. Seuss "The "real" world is but an illusion in the mind of the observer" "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years."- Muhammad Ali "look at them...it's in their blood, in their genes" - Asian woman observing Black folk dance."the only constant is change.""My thoughts are their thoughts. My hope is their hope. My creative expression is their creative expression. I struggle in this present day to live and to create, as they struggled in their day to do the same." - Marilyn Nance"2 plus 2, it equals 4" - Snoop - 'Lets get blown' (thanks for the arithmetic lesson Snoop)"It's all about the benjamins, tru that be the motto - Ran outta ammo and started throwin' bottles" - Black Rob"A typewriter?–why shd it only make use of the tips of the fingers as contact points of flowing multi directional creativity. If I invented a word placing machine, an “expression-scriber,” if you will, then I would have a kind of instrument into which I could step & sit or sprawl or hang & use not only my fingers to make words express feelings but elbows, feet, head, behind, and all the sounds I wanted, screams, grunts, taps, itches, I’d have magnetically recorded, at the same time, & translated into word–or perhaps even the final xpressed thought/feeling wd not be merely word or sheet, but itself, the xpression, three dimensional–able to be touched, or tasted or felt, or entered, or heard or carried like a speaking singing constantly communicating charm. A typewriter is corny!!"- Amiri Baraka"Black creation–creation powered by the Black ethos brings very special results" - Amiri Baraka"Fuck Batman and Robin, I'm robbin' wit a bat man..." - Sean Price of Heltah Skeltah"Ima stall her like she stalled me, now she tryin to call me" - Mike Jones"The crack smoke makes my brain feel so strange" - Biggie.."ha ha, very funny muthafucka" - Eddie Murphy"I'm an artist, watch how fast I draw my gun" - Rockness of Heltah Skeltah.."We live off the land. We match technology with spontaneity and improvisation. Men against machines-brains against computers" - Dan Freeman"A work of art is never completed, only abandoned." - ?"It's not that I'm a racist, it's just that I'm Pro Black" - SadatX"The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." - Assata Shakur“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life." - Jean-Michel Basquiat
"You'll be free or die a slave!" - Harriet Tubman"There are things that Jung said about the collective unconscious. I don't know if I can talk about "dream work" because I don't really get things specifically from my dreams... It's more an awareness of universal images which I "digest" and put in my own series of explanations and definitions. I reorder things with my own imagination. I try as much as possible to let the drawings happen by themselves. I become a vessel for this information, for this kind of magic, the spirit that flows through me and creates this thing." - Keith Haring The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.- Gordon Parks "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own except that you happen to be insane." excerpt from George Orwell's '1984' ..