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Habiba Samura

About Me



I am nothing.
My possessions are worthless.
My efforts are meaningless.
Unless it is all in the name of Allah Subhanna wa ta'ala.

"It's time for us as a people to start making some changes."

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

I am an artist. I am.

"Who hath made the earth your couch
And the heavens your canopy;
And sent down rain from the heavens;
And brought forth therewith
Fruits for your sustenance;
Then set not up rivals unto Allah
When ye know (the truth).
"
[2:22]

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Allah Subhana wa ta'ala
You who live affected
Brilliance personified
The eldest ancestor of my direct lineage
Me in 10 years

And for namesake:
Diane Arbus
Frank Miller
Maya Angelou
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Ramon Sampedro
Andy Warhol
Jack Kerouac
Jim Morrison
Sylvia Plath
Jack Black
MC Escher
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salvador Dali
John Cusack
Tom Robbins
Jeff Magnum
Ghandi
Irshad Manji
Nelson Mandela
Ziauddin Sadar
el Hajj Malik el Shabazz
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Blue Concrete

I wrote these at a different time, in a different place...        It is these moments that bring us joy above all others.  Mornings when the moon is still in the sky and...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:57:00 GMT

Now and Now

I dream in silence these days, with my eyes open. I don't think about the past much, it overcomes me in a way Idon't understand quite yet. In this land of minorities where no one speaks the samelang...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Bed of change

          She lays comatose in her death bed, the very same bed she made that morning. Staring at the widespread static on the television screen, wondering ho...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:00 GMT

Tag, youre it.

Em, I have left everything I ever knew and everyone I ever loved behind, and to be honest there hasn't been a moment that has gone by that I wasn't scare shitless and uncertain about absolutely every...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:34:00 GMT

The tilt of the earth

       In a way it was fitting, the way it all ended. Much like the tilt of the earth or the calmness of the trees before a storm, it was fitting. A natural happenstance, but...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:26:00 GMT

The passing of summer’s evenings

       The light filtered melancholy through the closed blinds; it was a beautiful shade of gold painting itself against the stark white of the new apartment. A bike sat idly ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:41:00 GMT

A list of things to pack

       Nervously she packed, although she knew it was no use, inevitably she would forget the most important thing. She was constantly anticipating every detail that could go ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:38:00 GMT

The most beautiful girl

[This was written for some friends who don't see how beautiful they are because of what has happened that makes them feel so ugly on the inside.]      She was the most beauti...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:26:00 GMT

On the bookshelves

           She had spent many of those first years living in the suspiciously large library of thehouse her mother left her. For days on end she would esc...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:25:00 GMT

Learning to hold hot things

Times of loss are often times of reflection, and desperation. The need for something moreis so frequent, the feelings of emptiness are all that is plentiful in these times. I picture a small hand gr...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:02:00 GMT