Leroy Moore's Best 50 Quotes/Statements of 2011 from Leroy

p1) When I was young I was looking for the mirror but couldn't find it until I looked within then reflected it outward./p p2) We know that Ableism is a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities. And we also know that the mainstream music industry and media refuse to deal with their ableism and ablest language. This is one reason Krip-Hop Nation is here among other reasons./p p3) A pen becomes powerful in the hand of a community, activist and non-selfish journalist/artist. Rewriting our own story that leads to justice for our people./p p4) New York New York, the home of Hip-Hop and a place that is almost mainly inaccessible by people with mobility disabilities. I know I grew up there off and on. However when Hip-Hop was on street corners it was a little bite accessible for everyone. (Not counting the broken/no elevators to the subway). Man made access obstacles + people fucked up attitudes = music of discrimination. Ummm makes u think/p p5) They asked, "Why didn't you pay your taxes?" and "I ask why didn't you pay your reparation?" /p p6) Krip-Hop Nation doesn’t want you to feel good/inspire but wants you to feel uncomfortable/angry!/p p7)"Is your work controversial?" Hahaahah Lets see. I'm Black with a disability living on SSI. I was born in an activist family. I'm an activist, poet, cultural worker and the list goes on. My breathing is controversial..../p p8) We don’t need any record labels cause we have already been labeled. Keeping our work\art independent.../p p9) American Idol, American Got Talent, The Voice, now the X Factor but have there ever been a musician/singer who are a wheelchair user or on crutches or has CP or any other disability that view can see? /p p10) Nothing is new just the packaging./p p11) Political Parties all sleep in one bed! /p p12) Music belongs to the people not institutions. /p p13) Eat my disability!/p p14) Do we give up our power, history, art, music etc. too easily and then are glad that the "mainstream" has "discover" our art, history, politics, music like it is something new and inspiring to put it out there to show how new and enlightening it is without getting deep into it and pointing their finger to themselves as the oppressors who stepped on us in the beginning. We are really doing the mainstream media job for them but after doing all of their work they still don't see the bigger picture that this is nothing new and its not only one person but they easily turn the mind of the public and the oppress that we should be thankful for that little bling bling. Its sad how we have to be satisfied with so little./p p15) If Hip-Hop came out of the Black community than we must look at how Diabetes, Sickle Cell Mental Health, HIV, Cancer and other health and physical disability play a part/p p16) Ablest + Racist language = Every day reality coming from our own people, 99, in our own community, in our schools, on radio/TV and some organizations so no wonder 1% also use ablest, racist language that takes it one step further in black white in our policies and red tape we have to follow. The Cycle./p p17) Would male musicians especially young Hip-Hop and Rock musicians put their mothers half naked on their album covers, in videos or posters or FB page? Then why are they/we posting up half naked women constantly in the entertainment industry? Nothing new it gets old./p p18) It is hard to look back but we got to to prevent repeating it!/p p19) Got a question, do you know how many Black, Latino, Asian or Native American authors, musicians, playwright who write about Black disabled people in history now I'm not talking about big names like Stevie Wonder.... Things to make you say umm remember Arsenio Hall/p p20) From Blues to Hip-Hop, same rip off different decade!/p p21) I/We DEMAND for a national holiday on behalf of women take our pick Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman... LONG OVERDUE! IT IS DOWN RIGHT DISCRIMINATION FROM MEN THAT WE DON'T HAVE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATING WOMEN! Face the fact if you're a man and if are not mad about this then you are the oppressor point blank. My finger points to me too./p p22) No more male anything i.e. holidays, memorial etc.! Need at least one women holiday, memorial or anything! Why don't we celebrate our women? There is not one federal holiday about and for women and don't give me Mother's day bull./p p23) Why when issues involving people with disabilities like police brutality, profiling, hate crimes, rape, theft and such there is very little reaction but if a big time star throws a feel good charity for people with disabilities the media and even activists jump all over it? /p p24) My responds to Lil Wayne Rick Ross having Rick Ross appear in a wheelchair it can go toward Lady Gaga too. Music industry becoming a modern day Medicine Show while people with real disabilities can't get jobs and can't break into "mainstream" Hip-Hop or Pop music in large numbers. Same shit different year from the Blues to Hip-Hop people with disabilities in big numbers get screw./p p25) What does Lady Gaga Rick Ross have in common? They are pimping disability hard! /p p26) Now we have to walk around with ID bracelet noting our disability so we won't get abuse by police. Disability Apartheid./p p27) Last night I went to sleep in poetry and woke up this morning in fiction!/p p28) I've always loved and respect Black women and on the other side all of my dating has been with white women. My lady that I'm dating now is White/Jewish so what does that say to my love of Black women. Are Black women ready to date a disabled man? However my sister's man is white/Jewish and she is not disabled. Ummmm makes me think. I will always love Black women./p p29) Everybody can act being a wheelchair user except people who really use wheelchair. From Rick Ross now Lady Gaga same pimp pimping the same people it is so boring. While people with disabilities make up 80% of people who are unemployed non-disabled entertainer make bank by playing people with disabilities. Doesn't make any sense./p p30) Whatever happens to the Black Disabled Movement with the rich arts in London UK THAT WAS SO RICH IN THE 90'S WHEN I WAS THERE? Was IT SMASH BY THE SO-CALLED MAINSTREAM????/p p31) Would the real Porgy Jim Crow, two disabled Black men found their way from street to stage without Jewish White men at the time? The real Porgy was Samuel Smalls a disabled street worker just like the real Jim Crow. Both stories hijacked by Jewish men. On one side it was good because it shined a bigger light but on the other side oh well you know where I’m going with this. Have the real story of the two been overshadowed?/p p32) The legacy of Paul L Dunbar's We Wear The Mask. Do we, Black people still wear the mask?/p p33) Why do we have to proof our disabilities! Freak the state!/p p34) The State gives and the State takes it away. How the political winds blows but we all know what is right and that doesn't change don't need the political winds to blow in my ear./p p35) Term Jim Crow originates back to 1828 when a white New York comedian, Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice, performed in blackface his song and dance that he called Jump Jim Crow. Rice's performance was supposedly inspired by the song and dance of a physically disabled black man he had seen in Cincinnati named Jim Cuff or Jim Crow. Race, disability and exploitation, welcome to USA!/p p36) Is it realistic to have one career these days? Is it outdated or something we have been chasing for a long time especially people of color?/p p37) Are Black Hip-Hop artists allies to Black disabled struggling Hip-Hop artists?/p p38) Why do disabled/Deaf/Queer Hip-Hop artists always says, "I am the First?" Read your history! U ain't the first and won't be the last!!!!!/p p39) I’ll go on record to say that early American music have come from Black Blind/Disabled people and yes others too but race disability has a huge part of the history of music here in the US. This concept/truth should not be new./p p40) Why is it always either/or heads/tails? Why can't we have the whole cake or blend everything together?/p p41) Does Ageing Disability have to be so negative? How do we create new frameworks when ability constantly decrees among other things? Why do I/we only see only one side of ageing and disability, and are there many sides that are overshadow by the popular view of human physicality? My mind can’t stop thinking. Ummmmmmmm/p p42) It hurts when the oppress are beat down so much that they really think if they can cut off/overcome their identity/ies everything will be just fine. We have a lot of "so called leaders" that are picked for us who have that viewpoint and they have a BIG microphone. People I'm just tiered of swallowing their politics and need to let it out!/p p43) Making music is different when the goal is to make it into and keep a career in the music industry! Same view can be apply to all other artistic avenues. This quote is from me after realizing that my art/activism is more than a career its life!/p p44) I won't over come my identities, race disability, but I hope this country will overcome its isms and pity!/p p45) Common, Jim Jones now Lady Gaga, non-Deaf musicians cashing in on using sign language. Now lets have the real thing, Deaf musicians cracking into mainstream music doing what other are now pimping. Or lets look at Sweet Honey In the Rock to really diversify without pimping./p p46) Black men can we talk? It's way overdue! "Racism Ableism created a mask.............."/p p47) Police brutality against people with disabilities keeps on happening. What to do? Write about it, advocate, do art, music do something!/p p48) "Wheelchair take down victim" Media and cops. First the physical abuse by cops and now outdated terms by the media. How much can we take?/p p49) AGAIN! They come and go and come back again to me screaming at me to write about them, their stories.... Who? Robert Winters, Walter Jackson and Joe Capers. All Black disabled musicians that left so much and struggle during their lives because of ableism and racism in and out of the music industry during their time./p p50) Its not inspiring, its not amazing, it just is!/p