Post 31- Happy Birthday Rosalind Russell!

Today is Rosalind Russells birthday. I have always loved her in the movie Auntie Mame( one of my moms all time favorites). She is such a strong woman and actress. She was born June 4th 1907 and died of breast cancer on November 28,1976. She was an american actress on stage and screen. She inspired me so much in Auntie Mame. I've always admired her srongness and she inspires me to be a strong, classy woman. Happy birthday Rosalind! Today in memory of Rosalind my quote will be from her.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.-Rosalind Russell

Post 30- Kathryn Joosten

On Saturday June 2nd Kathryn Joosten died at age 72 to lung cancer. I remember when I used to watch Desperate Housewives and lots of other things she acted in and she makes me laugh every time. I remember watching Cheaper by the Dozen 2 with the theater scene and she just make me laugh. Its not even funny and she puts a smile on my face. She was an awesome actor and she is one of many people that inspires me to remember the funniest in life. I'm a very straight forward and very serious woman. I don't really laugh at stuff all that easily but when I watch her or Jim Carey they just put a smile on my face. So today this video is going to be for her. 

Her impact on the world was more her acting then her words and I couldn't really find that many quotes about her but, she supported the American Lung Association a lot and this video represents her fierce support for the association.

This video represents her  little sense of humor.

Post 29- Not knowing whats next

Life is something that is full of mysterys. you never know what could happen next. Lots of people have to plan every single event and thing thats happening a head of time and except it to stay and be on that date. Stuff is going to happen. I am one that is very flexible and yes its good to plan but I don't like to plan events to far away. Some times its just good to let go of your control and the way you want stuff to be and let god lead you! he plans everything and u don't know what will happen next in life. And remember you won't be ready for the next thing either! But what ever is next in line for you just like me and every human in the world we've got to learn to accept that. It could be something horrible or there could be something amazing for you next. You never know what he as in plan for you! So,today my quote will be about life and its mysterys.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.- 

Harry Emerson Fosdick

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.-

William Cowper

Post 28- Classical Ballet

There are tons of dance styles. Hip-hop, lyrical,contemporary, krumping,waking, tap,jazz and many more. But one of my favorite types of dance and the base for all other types of dance is ballet. Its so graceful and nice. I love to watch ballets and adore the graceful movements with ballet. I also love the music that goes along with classical ballet such as Bach,and Beethoven. Now don't get me wrong, I am a very open person and love lots of different types of dance and LOTS of different genres of music but ballet is one of the most soothing and graceful types of dance and music and I love it! Ballet inspires me to be graceful and classy not a trashy or stupid girl and it also inspires me to become as good of dancer as possible because ballet takes a lot of technique. So today my quote is going to be about ballet and the grace in  ballet.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer,it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art.You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction.That kind of helps you in acting as well.It's not only using you mind,it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.- Zoe Saldana

Classical ballet will never die.-Ninette de Valois

Post 27- Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is one person that inspires me in one way and one way only. How she got to the top. Even though she went through poverty, discrimination she is one person who worked her way up to the top. She is one of the most successful people  to make there way to the top. She had a bad child hood and didn't really have a mom or somebody that cared about her except for maybe her maybe father Vernon Winfrey. She never really knew her real biological dad but some people say its Vernon Winfrey. She was abused, and often moved around from her grandmas, to her mom, to Vernons. She got into radio at 19 and then got her way into television doing a day-time television thing until she got her own show. She was for a little while the only Black billionaire and now is a very wealthy person owning a lot of estates and having the high life. I like how hard she worked to get to the top. And do like her shows. I think she can be a little phony but every rich person or talk host has to be a little phony in order to get their fans. So today my quote is going to be Oprah Winfrey.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. -Oprah Winfrey 

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. -Oprah Winfrey 

Post 26- Jazz and the soul

Jazz is one thing you can not replace. Jazz has been our culture for more than 100 years. Even before Louis made jazz popular there were some people that did compose jazz or at least have it in there soul before Louis Armstrong. But if it hadn't been for Louis all other music genres to come wouldn't have been made. Jazz wouldn't have been so big if it hadn't been for him.Today I was having trouble deciding what to write so I was looking at all the famous people  that have died on May 30th and just on this day alone three jazz players died.Then I looked up a list of all the famous jazz musicians,composers , etc. And I found so many jazz players that it wasn't even funny. Yeah there are plenty of musicians and singers out there but, jazz was the first big thing to Americans and to African Americans in America. And now we have rap thanks to jazz. We have disco thanks to jazz. We have so many other great people like Michael Jackson and The Temptations thanks to Jazz.We have so many talented jazz musicians,singers,composers and everything else that it is awesome. So,today my quotes are going to be from famous jazz musicians and these quotes are going to come from just some of the many jazz players that have inspired and influenced me a lot such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong,Scott Joplin ,Dizzy Gillespie,Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday. 

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.-Ella Fitzgerald

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.-Billie Holiday

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.-Dizzy Gillespie

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.-Louis Armstrong

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.-Duke Ellington

Post 25-Tim Hetherington

Today I will be talking about a photojournalist named Tim Hetherington. He was originally from the united kingdom growing up but during his career he lived in New York City, New York. He mostly did his journalism and took photos about war and the wars that were happening around him. He saw the world as a drank place and to that he saw the truth. He viewed the world as a dark place and wanted the world to know that it was a dark place.HE became very dedicated to photography and journalism. He worked a couple years in west Africa documenting the political challenges and how that affected other countries.  He was an investigatory for the United Nations Security Council's Liberia Sanctions Committee. He also helped make the documentary Restrepo.He died,April 2oth,2o11. He was 40 years old. He died while on the job in  Misrata, Libya during the 2011 Libyan Civil War. He made his ,mark clear. He loved what he was doing and risked his life for his job to share with people what it might be like to live in Libya during this decade or Afghanistan. And share the wars in this world with others.I am inspired by him and love what he did so today my quote will be about Tim Hetherington.

A lot of us were looking at guys shooting guns, and he was doing a much broader thing. I think in Afghanistan, too, Tim was taking photos that were just as much about manhood, brotherhood.-
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST1 MONTH AGO