February 2011
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Gang Girl: A Mother's Journey to Save Her Daughter →
art for art’s sake. art for our sake. art for change’s sake.
January 2010
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December 2009
1 post
November 2009
5 posts
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love me manque
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what i know about wo(men)
We are irrational. We are easily hurt. We hold grudges. We think about sex as much as men do…we just dont like to admit it. When we first see a good looking man we do, indeed, think about how he would be in bed…and THEN we go into our fantasy world(thinking of marriage, kids, etc…). We will pick fights when things are perfect sometimes just to see how much you care. We are...
iman: need. art. heart. empty.
me: heart. soul. everything. deep. inside. of....
back on my tumblr grind. i promise this job won’t keep me from expressing...
September 2009
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five things you don't know about chanel iman →
August 2009
10 posts
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effortlessly diva. an angel who is still truly missed. talent. beauty. class....
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i was just thinking…chanel iman is like the greatest/most fab little thing...
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i was just thinking…black women are SO beautiful! any man that...
destiny’s child audition tape.
brings me back. way back in the day when i was young…i’m not a kid anymore but somedays i sit and wish i was a kid again…
destiny’s child audition tape. circa 1997.
brings me back. way back in the day when i was young…i’m not a kid anymore but somedays i sit and wish i was a kid again…
July 2009
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chrisette michele’s cover of “don’t speak”
beautiful. no better person to cover this.
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i was just thinking…it’s alright to be a strong black woman.
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phenomenal woman. that’s me.
– maya angelou
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was michael’s happiness simply a dream deferred?
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a dream deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
-Langston Hughes
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i was just thinking, i’ve been gone for far too long…
June 2009
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be conscious of God and speak always the truth
– Holy Koran
Lakers in six.
– President Barack Obama (via nbaplayoffs2009)
May 2009
21 posts
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a little black girl's top 10 summer necessities
an all-white outfit
a choclatey man to use as arm charm
a brooklyn street fair
a free concert in the chi
a job that gives you just enough change for happy hour
a weekend in martha’s vineyard
a corporate cutie to meet for dirty martinis
a chilled bottle of white wine
a routine poetry spot loaded with young black intellectuals
a low maintenance curly natural fro
beg to differ?
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i am that strange, dark girl in the back of a densely-aired, dimly-lit bar:...
– tobia
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that’s what the 20’s are all about…a good happy hour, good...
– riw
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i shall dance all my life, i was born to dance, just for that. to live is to...
– josephine baker
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“black girl pain”-talib kweli
this song is life. and life is this song.
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all of this thunder and lightning must be God feeling my pain.