Ishmael
Reed calls him "Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland." Bob Holman
says, "He is the USA's Rumi!--the wisdom of Saadi, the ecstasy of
Hafiz." Rudolph Lewis says, "A master teacher in many fields of thought.
One of America's great story tellers. I'd put him ahead of Mark Twain!"
James G. Spady writes, "When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E-40, Too
Short, Master P or any other rappers out of the Bay Area of Cali, think
of Marvin X. He laid the foundation and gave us the language to express
black male urban experiences in a lyrical way."
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Chicago, get ready for the Wild Crazy Ride called the Marvin X Experience at University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Elder Marvin X speaks on his 71st earthday, raw, uncut, xxxx rated
Four young brothers at the Academy of da Corner reading the Oakland Post Newspaper.
photo Gene Hazzard
West Oakland childhood friends Paul Cobb and Marvin X, both writers and publishers
photo Walter Riley, Esq.
photo Gene Hazzard and Adam Turner for the Oakland Post Newspaper
Black Arts Movement/Black Power Babies, an inter-generational discussion in Brooklyn, NY, produced by Muhammida El Muhajir
I love you because I love you because I love you because I love you.
Revolutionary love!
Marvin X Poem
I loved grandmother's hands
grandfather's too
Johnny Murrill
drunk at El Gato Negro in Chinatown
go with uncle stand to pick him up
grandfather stuck on stupid in El Gato Negro
In Chinatown
drunk in the gambling shack
drunk broke
sittin in the car for hours
outside El Gato Negro
the Black Cat
Uncle Stan went inside
Uncle Stan please come back soon
gpaw stuck on stupid
broke
all week workin in da field
pickin cotton in the valley
fresno dos palos los banos
grandfather do take my girlfriend
you drunk on gin
runnin through the house calling girlie girlie girlie
grandpaw
did ma girl
please.
And now I am grandfather. Dirty old man. Filthy McNasty
Somebody hep me but you can't hep dirty old man.
Ase.
Please don't come with square ass bullshit. Spare me square ass bitches.
Square motherfucker will get ya killed,
hustling padner taught me.
fuck a square ass bitch
saw them in the crack house
freak of the week
give up BMW for a rock
suck every cock fa a rock
nigguh please
we saw it all
no Miller Lite here
we all gave it all in the game of slavery
don't have no shame today
--mx
Mother Blues
Oba/king of the Yoruba African Village, Sheldon, South Carolina
We thank the Oba for attempting to transform us back from nigguhs to Africans!
Thank you, Oba!--Marvin X
Don't make me tell the tales I know
dreadful
grand kids say
Gpaw what is wretched?
wretched of the earth I say
in the manner of Fanon
terrible grandchild
pitiful grandson
don't be wretched
say this to your mother
Mother, heaven is at your feet
Mother says don't just say it do it
Naeema say Heaven is at the feet of your, Mother
Daughter says, Oh, Father, Naeema puts on the worst show on earth at bedtime!
What?
Oh, Father, she puts on the greatest show on earth every night at 8pm, at bedtime!
Grandson Jah Amiel, also a terrorizer of his mother!
I made him declare before his mother, "Oh, Mother, heaven is at your feet!" At first he looked up to heaven to praise his mother. I said, no, Jah Amiel, the Prophet Muhammad said, Heaven is at the feet of your mother.
Jah Amiel declared to his mother, "Mother, heave is at your feet."
Mother was not convinced.
Mother said, Oh, Father, please take them with you!
She showed me a video of a Mother on Strike.
Also check out the mother who beat her son's ass in the Baltimore rebellion.
As father and grandfather, as lover of mothers with children, I praise the mothers who must care for their children 24/7, who watch out for them feed them wash them get them to school visit them in jail and prison yes praise the Mother Goddess forever and forever and forever!
--Marvin X
5/14/15
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