Author Archives: Loray

2/4/2019Currently sitting here in Chinese New Year traffic on my way to the beach. Meanwhile, my family is back at home suffering in Arctic weather. It’s difficult to travel anywhere during Chinese New Year. My original plan was to go back home (Jersey), but my adventurous self was curious to see Chinese New Year firstContinue reading “BLACK INFLUENCE WORLDWIDE EDITION: MUSIC”

IT’S FEBRUARY, SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH. I LOVE CELEBRATING AND EMBRACING WHO I AM. FOR ME, BEING BLACK IS EXTRAORDINARY. WE ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE, AND WITHOUT US AND OUR VARIOUS CULTURES, THIS “NEW WORLD” WILL BE DULL AS F*CK. YOU WILL NOTICE THIS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TRAVEL ASContinue reading “BLACK INFLUENCE: WORLDWIDE EDITION.”

WRITTEN BY MY HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR SELF. 

MY “NEW YEAR RESOLUTION” FOR 2018 WAS TO MAKE SH*T HAPPEN! IF I REALLY WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH A GOAL, WHETHER IT WAS READING A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF BOOKS, OR GOING TO AN EVENT SUCH AS THE CURLFEST IN BROOKLYN (WHICH I ATTENDED), I MADE INTO A REALITY.  ANOTHER PART OF THAT RESOLUTION WAS TO FINALLY MOVE FORWARDContinue reading “DON’T BE SELFISH.”

TRAVELING THE WORLD HAS BEEN MY ONE AND ONLY LIFETIME GOAL. AS A KID, I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE WORLD, THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, CUSTOMS, CELEBRATIONS ETC. LIKE MANY OF US, I WAS ASKED, “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?” FIRST, I WANTED TO BE A TEACHER, THEN AN ASTRONAUT, A RAPPER,Continue reading “PASSION…LET’S GO!”