Posts to resume in August. 

Peace.

Kalindra B

You can’t just be.

You can’t wear what you want

Dye your hair how you want

Say or do what you want

Be passionate

or in your feelings

or try to connect – even generally – to your ancestry – even if you can’t pin-point it with DNA accuracy

just every breath and move, manifested or expressed thought of self, desire, experience, a noticing of problems and a hope for solution, is questioned, judge, mocked, ridiculed, criticized, defined by EVERYONE else, and just generally spat on……

for what though?

Shea butter of the natural not the “now with shea butter” variety is my hair obsession. who wants to buy me some for my bday?

lol

Life Lesson #1

blackgirllefthanduniverse:

don’t listen to what negative things people tell you about life. listen and sympathize out of respect (if you even care to) but let it go in one ear and out the other. they are projecting their fears and uncertainties onto you. that is their truth and the reality they CHOOSE to live in. Just because it is THEIR truth doesn’t mean it will be YOUR truth. You have the power to create… just like everyone else. as above, so below.

To my fellow aspiring writers:

theparadoxofwords:

Don’t think that your writing is inadequate. Remember the reason you write—you write for yourself, and not for others—and never forget that.

Your self-expression is nothing less than beautiful. Maybe he writes more eloquently, and she writes more poetically, but it doesn’t make your work any less than theirs.

No one in the world is going to be able to write the way you do, with the tone you use. There’s always going to be something about your writing that is markedly you. Be proud of it (:

I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.

Rainer Maria Rilke (via lou-smiler)

when the one i wanted, did not want me.

warsanshire:

I was almost rabid

for love.

Would’ve lunged at any thing

thrown my way

carcass, shadow, memory, promise

shell of a man.

I thought it was better

to be loved by a dead thing

than to be left alone.

Then I loved a dead thing 

and was completely alone.

“but you have to set an example”

westendblues:

why though? and why me?

So I have to be natural to show your daughter how to superficially embrace blackness?

Blackness is more than a fro and a fist.

And blackness is not something I should be pressured to “wear” to pick up where your bad parenting left off.

Miss me.

Please stop calling this a nation of immigrants. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of colonizers, ex-slaves, ghosts of genocide victims, and preferred immigrants.

Maurice Lucas Goes IN (via sonofbaldwin)

—oop..

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welp

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Bloopity bloop bloop!

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