Category: observations
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qotw: flower bloom
“Makin’ sure my punctuation curve, every letter here’s true Livin’ my life in the margin and that metaphor was proof I’m talkin’ poetic justice, poetic justice If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room Would you trust it? I mean, you need to [read] this…” Kendrick Lamar, “Poetic Justice” In what…
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qotw: shining light
“My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.” The Egyptian Book of The Dead
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qotw: self-love
If you really want to know who loves you for you, start loving yourself. First of all, I am loved. I am loved by amazing people who show it various ways, even if they curse me out, because clearly, I needed to be checked. I am extremely lucky to have people who are just a…
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qotw: recognize
We all move forward when we recognize how resilient and striking the women around us are. Rupi Kaur For me, “recognize” is the most important word in this quote. Black women, especially, have been resilient and striking since day one, but there has been a constant and vicious effort to erase or discredit us. Watching…
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qotw: what suffers?
“Some things suffer” –MC By no means do I have things figured out. I’m learning new things every day. Experience and the others’ wisdom have been my guiding lights. One of those people is my home girl from college. Mother, entrepreneur and homeowner are a few ways to describe her. I watched an ambitious young woman…
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Why am I here?
At 3:32pm EST on October 10, 2017, I asked myself a question and answered it… Why am I here? Why is the reality I thought I was going to live not yet materialized? I stare at the computer screen and sip my Earl Grey and peppermint tea to subside my second round of cluster headaches…
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qotw: lessons from the land
“when you pull something in nature the rest of the world is connected.” Since the only Christophers we acknowledge are Wallace and Rios. I decided today’s quote would come from Judy Dow, an educator, activist and Abenaki (pronounced Wa-ba-naki) basket maker from Vermont. In “Lessons from the Land” Dow discusses the Vermont eugenics projects of…
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qotw: the light and the darkness
“maybe dawn is not in the sunlight every morning, maybe it is in the middle of the night when you hold yourself against the darkness. you are sitting quietly and feeling yourself break apart yet knowing this hour, this very hour, you are finding yourself. maybe this is your dawn. maybe for you, the first…
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qotw: a lil resilience
I had an application rejected last week, and the person who encouraged me to pursue the endeavor was pissed. As for me, I thought nothing of it. I’m so used to rejection, I just threw it in the pile knowing there will be other opportunities. As long as the sun rises and there is air…
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A Race of Babies
As soon as I saw its cover, I knew I had to read it: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas…when the first part of my muse’s most recognized tattoo is spelled out on a book—it was a no-brainer. I opened the novel and I met a complicated Black teenager named Starr and entered her…
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