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New unedited footage of Aaliyah being interviewed by Michael Mackie about her feature film debut in Romeo Must Die and about performing her own stunts and acting with co-star Jet Li back in 2000

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Black love. photographed by me.

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i feel like Wednesday.

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like a kiss from a rose I could be the one to seal your whole fate.

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MJ Rodriguez x Golden Globes (2023)

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the emancipation of gg.

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be soft with me. be soft with my body. be soft with my soul. i want to feel safe with you, love.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOFTNESS: “THE LOVE LANGUAGE OF AN EMPATH.”

for the emotionally awkward man:

i know what it’s like... to grow up being told you have to be hard, boys are tough & rough, and softness is a weakness. i know how hard it is to feel pain, want to cry & want to talk about your feelings but you can’t because you’re “a man.” i know how it feels to feel uncomfortable while being emotional. it’s awkward for you. you don’t know how to handle it so you shut down or either act out. the bad news is emotionally, you’re damaged. the good news is, you’re an adult now, you can have the luxury of being unapologetically yourself and being at peace with that. a time will come where you will come across someone who wants to love you and protect you. naturally that person will be a lot more emotional than you are because that person is an empath, they see the wall you have built around your emotions to keep them in. they see how you struggle to be emotional, they are aware of what you’ve went thru. they’ve grown to understand you more than you know yourself. they’ll call you out on shit that you do, not to tear you down, only to help you grow. you may not see it but they may love you so much to the point they’ll ignore their emotions just to let you express your emotions & give you the opportunity to LEARN how to express yours. you shouldn’t be scared, but if you are it’s okay. trust the process & trust that person. usually they want to enhance you & love you. they’re trying to create an unconditional love, one that may have not been present during your upbringing.

for the empath:

you’ve been in his shoes. you know how it feels. you may have experienced softness with one parent but not the other, or from your grandparents, maybe even later in your life with someone who you loved & loved you back. regardless you broke the cycle, now you realize how many people are suffering from lack of softness. you’ve been thru it all. you’ve been called weak, you’ve been beaten up emotionally and teased... you’ve spent time trying to fix people, and because of that you’ve been hurt a lot in the process. you tend to attract or are attracted to men who have potential emotionally, or men who don’t see what you see in them. they see black & white, you see every color & every detail. you crave a sense of safeness, you know they feel safe with you but you don’t feel as safe or comfortable. just like any other human you have doubts, you think negative thoughts... you beat yourself up. you can pull yourself out of that sadness & depression but it would be nice to have someone help & sympathize with you and your feelings right? you want to be handled with care. even tho you may like roughness sometimes, you really crave softness. you want someone who will love you, your soul & your body at times where you feel low. you want to feel lifted by the person you love & that loves you. you may know you are beautiful but as you may know, EVERYONE feels insecure at times. you want him to love & appreciate every part of you, you wanna hear his love, you wanna feel his love. soft touch, soft kisses, soft & slow strokes, long tight hugs, you want massages when you’re feeling physical pain, you want him to study you like you study him. you want a balance. 50/50... no matter how different you two are, you want to meet in the middle somewhere. you don’t want to change who he is, you grew to love him for multiple reason. shit some of those qualities may even be that tough, strong and dominate energy that he has gained from growing up the way he did... in the end you want to enhance him in every aspect & you want the same for yourself. a genuine, healing, unconditional bond... a home. a safe haven.

#blacklove #mental health #summer walker #emotions

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https://instagram.com/p/BcuVgKRhWyb/

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Guarantee, you’ve never felt “crazy” until you come to the realization that you just care about someone that won’t ever feel the same about you.

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I love her, tbh.

one of the reasons people should take you more seriously

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“From the first time I saw Beyonce I couldn’t take my eyes off of her, she looked like an angel, the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. We’d hang out after school and almost every night we’d fall asleep talking to each other on the phone. For two years I didn’t know she could sing. We spent hours watching movies together and playing Connect 4. I had no idea how good her voice was back then, but I knew she could move. Over the course of a few years I cheated on her about five times, but I never told her until after we broke up. She was such a great girl who cared about me deeply, she even wrote her hit “Dangerously in Love” while we were together. Once she began dating Jay Z, I knew I could never win her back, but I know that no matter what, she will always love me. I will always wonder ‘What if?’ and, given all we shared, I’m sure a part of her must feel the same way.” She was the love of my life and I was hers, so losing her is still my biggest regret, she would say to me all the time, ‘I’m afraid to ever live my life without you Lyndall, I want you to be mine for ever.’ I’ll be honest—it was me that messed everything up and lost her forever to Jay Z, but I deserved it. Who cheats on a woman as beautiful as Beyonce? Well, I am that man and it’s something that’ll always haunt me.”

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This made me happy.

💃🏽: @queenteddy 🎧: Beat de Chez Beat ✨✨✨✨

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