hSon of Man, Proverbs by Marvin X, Black Bird Press, 1969, Harlem, NY. For the first time since 1969, Marvin X is revising his Book of Proverbs. "He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland," says Ishmael Reed. He adds, "Marvin X's play One Day in the Life is the most powerful drama I've seen!" Bob Holman says, "He's the USA's Rumi, Saadi, Hafiz...the politics of Baraka, the humor of Pietri....""At his best, Marvin X is clarity of perception!," wrote Gerald Ali of the United Kingdom
Photo Doug Harris, Harlem, NY, 1968
New Proverbs by Marvin X, 2019
You are smarter than God, after all, God did not create you, you created God!
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Are you not the father and mother of God? There was no God before you. You are not created in God's image, you created God in your image!
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In your wanton desire, you shall marry a tree, horse, dog, child, anything but the natural order of things for you are smarter than Nature and Nature's God.
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My buddy Sun Ra said, "You so evil the devil don't even want you in hell!" Imagine, you are worse than the devil himself.
"What kind of people are these,
they really make you wonder.
Hurry Allah with the fire and water....
(Marvin X lyrics from Resurrection of the Dead, a myth/ritual dance drama, Black Educational Theatre, San Francisco Ca., 1972
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You are mighty, supreme. God cannot save you and you will not save God!
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Listen to God for surely God listens to you! If you listen, God will tell you everything to do of righteousness. When God speaks clearly and loudly, you pretend not to hear, then the hour of judgment arrives and you are terrified, shocked at the work of your hands that deceived you when you denied the voice of God speaking in your ears so loudly a deaf man could hear, yet you pretended not to hear and went headlong over the precipice.
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You have heard what a difference a day makes, but the difference is you. The tide is turning because you are turning the tide. Better ax somebody as they say in Houston, Texas.
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God is Good. You must be good to God!
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No mystery God can save you. The mystery God couldn't save Himself. Will the mystery God pay your rent, house note, telephone bill. Why do you pray when God has already answered? And how can you receive your blessings from God with your fist balled up, mad at God when He has already blessed you. You believe it is raining because you are too deaf, dumb and blind to go outside to see and know the sun is shining. You believe because it rained yesterday it shall rain tomorrow.
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After the nut, then what? Make the ho' your wife or pay the ho' to go!
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Children are joy and children are pain, no matter what age.
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Sons are great but daughters are more loyal.
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Pure ignorance, hubris and ageism prevents us from enjoying the wisdom of elders in our midst. And when elders join ancestors, we are depressed at the level of your ignorance and stupidity, for you missed your chance to enjoy the wisdom of an elder, instead you listened to a foolishness of a youth, your peer in your state of being deaf, dumb and blind, yes, the low information vibration mentality. Like you, in my youth I thought I was so smart I outsmarted myself, my father said RIP.
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If you don't sit at the feet of your elders, your children shall not sit at your feet. They will sense you are a fool. I truly regret I was in the presence of Harry Hayward and Howard Thurman but dismissed them as old men, yet they had the wisdom of ages. Harry knew about Black Nationalism, Communism, Socialism. Howard Thurman was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mentor. Even though I was in their presence in the Bay Area, I did not take full advantage of their wisdom, my deepest regret and I pray they shall forgive me for without a doubt I am standing on their shoulders. And I am confident that if I fall, my ancestors shall catch me, time after time, in the words of Cyndi Lauper. See Miles Davis, Time After Time.
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You believe the sun is shining. But if you go outside you will know it is raining.
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Why are you worried it is the end of the world when you have never lived, so what does it matter?
All you do is talk loudly on the cell phone; yes, talking loud, saying nothing; yes, full of sound and fury signifying nothing, in the words of Shakespeare and the Holy Bible, if I am correct!
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--Marvin X
2/19/19
Oaktown
2/19/19
Oaktown
Continued