Love this, posted by Adrienne Maree Brown
Prince taught me how to be who i am still becoming.
he was every. single. thing.
Prince taught me to stretch between genders, and then beyond the binary of gend...er, in how i love and understand myself, in how i understand my desire, my holiness.
he was every. single. thing.
Prince taught me to stretch between genders, and then beyond the binary of gend...er, in how i love and understand myself, in how i understand my desire, my holiness.
to embody raunch and devotion in equal measure.
to be unapologetically sexy, a small man or big woman, to induce desire and discomfort, taking the center of everyone’s attention with transparent seductions in a society that demonizes nature and the sensual world.
to be political and humane with my curiosity and my resources. to seek guidance and teachers and collaborators all around me.
to have diva-high standards, and to offer my opinion with a pursed lip and raised brow. to be shady as an art form.
to wear more eyeliner.
to love god and pleasure in the same breath, with the same song, with the same dance. to believe different things over time, but always claim myself as a child of the divine.
to be generous with time and support for those in my field who please me, to mentor and partner with and uplift talent.
to take the lower harmony sometimes, even if you can hit the upper range.
that it’s ok, in fact it’s my right, to be vulnerable and controversial and personal in the public realm and still have a private life.
to grace the world with the exquisite gift of a perfect falsetto whenever the moment calls for it.
and mostly to be different, to offer the world a joyful rejection of the normal, the appropriate, the mediocre.
Prince, from 'Way Back Home':
Most people in this world are born dead
But I was born alive
(I was born with this dream)
With a dream outside my head
That I could find my way back home
...
Lemme tell you about me
I'm happiest when I can see
My way back home
Can you see
My way back, my way back home
to be unapologetically sexy, a small man or big woman, to induce desire and discomfort, taking the center of everyone’s attention with transparent seductions in a society that demonizes nature and the sensual world.
to be political and humane with my curiosity and my resources. to seek guidance and teachers and collaborators all around me.
to have diva-high standards, and to offer my opinion with a pursed lip and raised brow. to be shady as an art form.
to wear more eyeliner.
to love god and pleasure in the same breath, with the same song, with the same dance. to believe different things over time, but always claim myself as a child of the divine.
to be generous with time and support for those in my field who please me, to mentor and partner with and uplift talent.
to take the lower harmony sometimes, even if you can hit the upper range.
that it’s ok, in fact it’s my right, to be vulnerable and controversial and personal in the public realm and still have a private life.
to grace the world with the exquisite gift of a perfect falsetto whenever the moment calls for it.
and mostly to be different, to offer the world a joyful rejection of the normal, the appropriate, the mediocre.
Prince, from 'Way Back Home':
Most people in this world are born dead
But I was born alive
(I was born with this dream)
With a dream outside my head
That I could find my way back home
...
Lemme tell you about me
I'm happiest when I can see
My way back home
Can you see
My way back, my way back home
