Figuring it out is hard and I’m sorry
It aint about you/
Burn Babylon/
Yah pussy ah da wettest/
Racism Shadism Classism colorist sexism Patriarch decentering whiteness
No Fucks Given/
The Marathon continues/
Art is about learning how to be, Painting is about what's in front of you, it's about learning to see/
Niggas die everyday in the hood B/
Intersectionality/
You're the most insecure person I know and it's disgusting/
We have to be gentle with each other’s hearts
I Like America and America likes me
For the CULTURE/
If you were them, You would be them/
LISTEN/
“You’ve got to give them something special, you got to give them you, what you do, what you represent”
New women, old ways, Gotta Keep a Balance/
I look cooler than I am/
I don't want my work to be some fucking free zone associations/
Build the margins/
This nigga always skiing even in the summer/
Poverty Broke/
"I'm a Roc-A-Fella
What nigga for Roc-A-Fella shit I will rock a fella”/
"grey sheep”/
"You know you were my first time a new feel”/
“Lots of class but working class”/
Every year I grew up but never got older/
Fuck a lot/ mad asexual/
The margin are limitations of the imagination /
There are no margins/
Every master must empty his cup/
Take my dog to go see Santa/
Worker’s rights/
Be more grateful/
It’s ok to have the feelings that you have/it doesn’t mean your feelings are correct/
Don’t restate what someone has already said when you can say something new and more relevant/
Take something do something to it then do something to it/
Ok, Sorry/
It’s my flesh that holds on to facts, It’s my spirit that holds on to truth/
She riding dick on her tippy toes/
Trama looping/
Web of what I’m already doing/
Digital identity/
Only thing that was real/
Too much mindless conformity/
Live your truth
Black people who love black people
Who are you talking too
Sorry if I made you feel less than who you are/ a little insecure
a civilian
Bummy Jack
Swear by the moment
Centering identifies
Consider the source
Emotional thirst-trap
Long journey not a lot of time
Borderless experience
Ima shine Anti-social extrovert
I’m from the far side of a small island
Wanna feel the thrust wanna feel the texture
Not really into small talk but always want a deep conversation
Biggest turn on real empathy not this pseudo cultural capitalist woke that people ex-ercise now a days/ empathy that requires real listening and imagination around some-one else’s lived experience.
Everything I experience is real
Sometimes the safest place I feel is sleeping on the streets
Latisha harlin
It’s your job
Consider the source
Wish we grew up on the same advice
Arbitrary geopolitical cousins fight political identity
I get it Annd I hope I don’t lose IT
Do you trust me
Why are white people always asking black people to hold black people accountable through punishment and very comfortable forgiving white people for far worst
Possibilities simplicity reduction
Social fabric
Till this day
More conscious of the way we raise our daughters
SHUTDAFUCKUP
Keep ur dick in ur pants
I believe in ENRRGY
You have time
Freedom/unfreedom
Using networks
Backshot show me weh u got
People who say purple cause they want to argue red but you said blue
Future part looping in between
Things we know, we know we don’t know, and things we don’t know that we don’t know
I don’t rob and steal
I could taste my eyes
Believe in ur future self
Absent minded but think about everything
venerability versus desperation
The universe has no north
-A world of opinions based on privileges or hurts
-They said I was crippled so I said fuck it found my own path (build them stairs)
-I wonder if Iran is going to attack during Election Day
-Successful black men with average white women
White women with a fat ass
-When you have tension over ANYTHING an argument can come over anything
-I think about death everyday I think about it as a reminder to live
-Dark oppression vs black oppression
Willing vs wanting
-White middle upper middle class women who advocate for socialism and imagination against capitalism is black men making money but never speak to their fathers who rally against the death tax
I rather fail on my ideas than succeed on someone else
I love that shit too much for you to not care
I can indentify her by she bumsy
It’s impossible being a human being
Artist or brand
When something’s a problem it just means you not looking at the truths and the op-portunities
Fake outrage
We trigger each others demons
We’ve become used to the suffering of others
I dont Inherit beef
The fox knows many things and the hedgehog knows one big thing.... his big idea is that he knew he would have many ideas
Academic Object painters
Conviction/ consensus
Coons are negroes who choose white approval over black advancements
Virtue signaling
Houseless people
The purpose of a system is what it does...
Dont fault people for the incentives that form them
growth as oppose to assembly
Take sense out of nonesense
Whats understood never has to be explained
Sorry to state the obvious
I knew i could give more if i felt protected
Everything you’ve done ends up being training for what you are doing
Life liberty and justice black people we still fighting for life
big mad
Them a real asshole
Dont let your enemy tell you who your enemy is
Familiarity as information
Digital communications
Ideology is the mechanism that harmonize the principles that you want to think you hold and what advances your material interest
You ask me what time it is and I tell you how to make a watch
I hate when People cant decenter themselves while listening
One you understand the way broadly you can see it in everything
May you realize your divinity in this lifetime
Performative blackness for white gaze
America snakes of America
Puppets without a string
K-Shaped recovery
Wet Ass Pussy
Kings disease
Systemic white guilt
I wish i could save ya
Put my dick pon uah lipstick
dna memory
You’re better than what i was ready for
What good is worrying about your beard if your head is about to be taken off
Digital fatigue
Black like having your cousin back
Over Specialized and you breath in weakness
Knowledge we have created for ourselves
Digital native
There is something violent that requires you to conform to a standard that by defini-tion you could never meet...Thick
Out of bounds and out of budget
Hands space face stay safe
Cognitive capture
The thing that you want but not in the package that you wanted
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision
In-group thinking in monoculture
I feel like im watching a real hood movie right now
Knowledge based economic
Memory imprinting thing
Democratic speech environment
Too many brown folks with anti-black antitudes
Success gets mixed in with the idea of freedom as if they are the same
Minority group Identify politics rooted in anti blackness
External processor
Winners dont make excuses when the other side plays the game
Pimped by people’s future perception of us
I have drawing and im searching for color where as you have color and you are searching for drawing
The streets dont got rules it aint never have rules
Move passed/past the slogans
Young generation getting older
Pinky skyy black Cherokee
You gotta love free speech and you gotta love the bullshit
Paintings are visual text
C.R.E.A.M
Logical fallacies
Every choice comes with an invoice
Get married to the game but never have a kid with it
Whats beef
The key is to not let some nigga thats not on your level trick you out of position
One hand wash the other both hands wash the face
Social innovation (the weekend, 8 hour days)
Dignity purchases
Embodied knowledge
Practicing Trust
Play your part dont let the position play you
Emotional moron but he isnt evil
Them “ALL THAT I GOT IS YOU” days
Hip hop is not the problem our reality is the problem
We shall overcome…We gonna be alright
Fight the power
Residue of racism
Meta verse

Alvaro Barrington 2021