Name: "No Way" by Rashida Oji
Duration: P00H03M24S
Description: I was asked to sing for a benefit concert for Marin Abused Women's Services. A story from my own experience woke up inside me. I tell that story in this piece. May all women and children, all beings be free from family emotional and physical violence.

"No Way" by Rashida Oji

from "Big,Big Woman" by Regina Wells Rashida Oji

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I was asked to sing for a benefit concert for Marin Abused Women's Services. A story from my own experience woke up inside me. I tell that story in this piece. May all women and children, all beings be free from family emotional and physical violence.

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No way you gonna take away my power. No way. This woman was born to flower. No way. No way. No way.

Mama! I was just a child then. Mama! Too little too weak to do anything. Couldn't stop that man, no, he was too wild. Couldn't stop him no - Daddy beat Mama in front of his own child.

No Way! No Way!

No way you gonna take away my power. No way. This woman was born to flower. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way.

I can still see you there sprawled on the be with the rollers in your hair. What was I to do - too little to take care of you? There was no where for you to go. He was swinging high, swinging low. Mama! Mama! My Mama!

No Way! No Way!

No way you gonna take away my power. No way. This woman was born to flower. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. No way. No Way.

Ya see the master beating the slave, slave beating the wife. Violence turns over again to the child from the wife. No Way! No Way! No Way!
No Way!

Many years gone by since that day I saw my Mama cry, but I know she's gone to that place when she gets that stony look on her face. Now she swings her own arms high. Now she makes her own children cry - "Mama! Mama! My Mama!

No Way! No Way! No Way! No Way!

No way you gonna take away my power. No Way! No Way!

No More! No More!

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from "Big,Big Woman", released February 3, 2017

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Regina Wells Rashida Oji Oakland, California

In November 1989 the artist Rashida Oji moved from St. Louis, MO to Oakland, CA seeking fame as a folk/rock singer/songwriter. "Continue The Journey" contains the message and healing balm of a performer turned
priestess. Now also known by her given name, Regina Wells, teaches mind/body awareness via the principles of Rosen Method Movement and Bodywork, working in private and in Addiction Medicine ... more

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