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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Osho (via spiritualevolution1111)

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The inner work The spiritual work The mental work The Work to control your emotions The Work to slay illusion The Work to find clarity Do the physical work Reflective of spiritual Mind over matter Find your endurance find your pace find grace flow Do the fucking work Get your hands dirty Work your hands Till they can’t work no more Do the work for mastership.

Omi Kongo, oko (via kalungaavenue)

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The inner work The spiritual work The mental work The Work to control your emotions The Work to slay illusion The Work to find clarity Do the physical work Reflective of spiritual Mind over matter Find your endurance find your pace find grace flow Do the fucking work Get your hands dirty Work your hands Till they can’t work no more Do the work for mastership.

Omi Kongo, oko (via kalungaavenue)

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Our comrade Jasmine is the first black person (and woman) to be charged with lynching. Political prisoners are not a thing of the past! Jasmine has been a powerful force in her community and the Movement for Black Lives. If you follow history, this is how they try to destroy us. She is one of many activists who are being persecuted for nonexistent crimes. I had a rough night coming to terms about this and the oppressive injustice system. It feels like perpetual deja vu. This is my sister, my family. #SayHerName! Read her story! #ShareHerStory! We can not let this stand #nomorepoliticalprisoners!! 😡 #BlackLivesMatter To donate and help with commissary please donate to http://www.crowdrise.com/blmla

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💗💛 Positivity for black girls 💛💗

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Fatima Siad for Marie Claire July 2010 ‘World Classics’ fashion story

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Gahhhhhhh!

Queen Latifah attends The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

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via Adaku Utah

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People who use Willie Lynch

To make Black Women ignore the abuse/oppressive behavior of Black Men

To excuse Black Social Activist leaders who preach homophobic ideologies

To ignore rampant colorism that largely affects dark skin Black Women

To quiet disabled black people who are tired of being Black Comedian fodder

Clearly we are not “all in this together” if you continue to abuse your brothers and sisters - so why do you keep screaming “unity” when clearly you think being united in the struggle of stopping racism is less valid if it’s done with a gay black male or anyone who doesn’t belong as denizens of your “black utopia”?

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Hey boo.

I am a black man

but I refuse to be a hoe (sexually indiscriminate). I don’t and never have found solstice in entertaining women I don’t know. I am not detached. I am not okay with false realities that I create for myself. I am not scared of the truth. I do not hide that fear in my rage. I am not dominating. I don’t think fighting resolves much… Usually. I am not going to play games. Because games have winners and losers. My goal isn’t to win. And I’m wack at basketball… and I’m sorry. But I gotchu on a free throw.

Sometimes I feel like the messages sent to me are limiting concepts try their best to unmake the man in me…

But I am thorough. I am a leader. I am loving. I am sensitive. I am real. I am compassionate. I am romantic. I am careful. I am steady. I fall. I get the fuck back up. I cry. My sex is good. I like James Baldwin and bell hooks and William Carlos Williams. I like to talk it out. And I’d like to know you before anything. Before everything.

Is that man enough for you? Cuz that’s all I got.

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she liked stars not because they’re ‘pretty’ but because they’re so small and forgotten, and she understood how that really felt

thebandsexualfreak (via wnq-writers)

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How some people make me feel. God was with you. #sophistiratchet

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“BLACK LIVES MATTER”

by Markus Prime

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin (via quotemadness)

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Doing black philosophy, in general, and black feminist philosophy, in particular, requires one to trust that our ancestors have indeed thrown their theoretical production (i.e., their practice and their principles) into this century, as we, by engaging in black theoretical production and beyond, throw ourselves into future centuries.

 Dotson, Kristie. “Radical Love.” The Black Scholar 43, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 38–45. doi:10.1080/00064246.2013.11413663.   (via dismantlingacademia)

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think: once, a white girl was kidnapped & that’s the Trojan war. later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. are we not worthy of a city of ash? of 1000 ships launched because we are missed? always, something deserves to be burned. it’s never the right thing now a days. I demand a war to bring the dead boy back no matter what his name is this time. I at least demand a song. a song will do just fine.

from Not an Elegy for Mike Brown by Danez Smith (via rivercityreading)

note: this piece accompanied Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “The Death of Micheal Stewart” (1983) in the 2015 Baqsuiat: Now’s the Time exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario

let that sink in

(via thesilentsojourner)

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You can’t lie to your soul.

Irvine Welsh (via wordsnquotes)