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If your artistry is apart of your spiritual responsibility, can you afford to neglect it?
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It’s wild the things we don’t even realize we don’t have because of racism. I never even thought about the fact I never saw a Black fetus illustrated & now that I’m seeing it, my mind is really blown that I never saw one before today.
I’ve literally never seen a black foetus illustrated, ever.
This is amazing
@ebereillustrate
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If you teach your kids how to stand up for themselves, you have to be ready for them to stand up to you. Lol
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Are you low maintenance or are you accustomed to neglect
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Y’all think Black people are too sensitive about everything, yes bitch, we are sensitive. We been watching Black people get killed & over and over for how long? we been dealing with anti-blackness every day FOREVER. Our whole lives. YEA I am sensitive.
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It’s important to also share posts like this that aren’t so feel good because people need to know the things Shirley has to face in order to do this work. Helping those who are in need & vulnerable can come at a painful cost sometimes. It’s more than just her labor, it’s a risk.
This was hard to post. While serving yesterday my car was attacked...I wanted to pull off and leave I was so upset! There were 100 people in line that needed help. Mental illness is real down in the row.
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Question: When was the last time you heard a white person say the word ancestors before 2020?
One thing I know for a fact is anyone who tries to play w me has to answer to my ancestors..that karma hit quick
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Yo...I had no idea our hand clap games went all the way back to slavery. You wanna talk about preserving Black joy...that’s what we do by teaching our kids the games we were taught.
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I’ve caused harm. I’ve been the problem. No matter how spiritual or wise a person may be, we all have a past & been on the wrong side of things at some point. Don’t think your favs haven’t f*cked up/can’t have ppl who rightfully don’t fw them. Just be grateful for growth & grace.
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I check myself several times before I get to the point of checking you. So when I step to you, it’s not projection. It’s not lack of self-awareness. It’s not finger-pointing & blame games.
You just needed to be checked.
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Women with Fire Venus signs &/or fire moon signs. Learn to see our aggression as affection lmao
This is how I like to be treated by my girl, inject a lil fear in to me pls
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I’m getting comfortable with the fact that I do have needs. I used to be so afraid of being seen as needy, so I was uncomfortable with receiving care in certain ways. Because I’ve had very few people commit to showing up for me in the ways that I need them to. But things change.
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If you claim to be raising raising geniuses and warriors or regular people with any sense of healthy personal autonomy, you have to know that the day will come where they have to go against something you’re saying, it’s the nature of them figuring out who they are.
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I think parents struggle with admitting when they have failed their child and that sometimes is why they try to make kids feel guilty for the sacrifices they made as parent. It's an issue of pride and makes the kid feel like they aren't entitled to feel how they feel. Sucks.
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Y’all ever think about how in The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Moana and Coco they was doing ancestral work but in the movies about white people they never did.
Correct me if I’m wrong here
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I really wish I knew who to credit for this, I been laughing at it for literally years.
#GrowingUpInABlackChurch
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Protection isn’t just for keeping away haters & evil people.
You want that protection where even well-meaning people who would unintentionally impact you negatively can’t get close enough to do that.
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Art isn’t just pretty things to look at. It impacts our society and culture on a fundamental level. The world constantly devalues it while gobbling up every ounce of original creativity to push their respective agendas.
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The point of being aware isn’t to panic, it’s to prepare.
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Not saying they don’t have their own ways of doing ancestral work. I just feel like before we started talking about ancestors more, white people would kinda avoid mentioning theirs. So it’s just interesting to see them talking about ancestors openly now.
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Y’all want to make everything exclusive because there’s nothing interesting about you. All you have is the delusion that basic activities make you special.
You’re not.
If you gave a fuck about art, you’d like that more people were going regardless of how you saw them interacting.
Y’all made museum dates “trendy” and don’t be knowing shit about art. I hate y’all frfr
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I’m not a tit for tat person & I don’t do anything expecting people to do something for me. But I do pay attention to patterns & imbalances. And awareness of imbalances do influence me to change my behavior. It’s not punishment, it’s just necessary shifts that need to take place.
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People helped me when I was down, it’s my responsibility to help others. It’s not charity, it’s necessary service. Taking care of each other is the standard; it’s the way it has to be.
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Black hair stylists are alchemists.
I’m so grateful
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let me do this style. Love you so much!!! You bodied it 😍💕🥺❤️🔥
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And ima be honest lol. Part of me feels as though because we been talking about ancestral work so publicly, it’s making them develop relationships with their dead in ways they weren’t doing en mass before. & I think that’s gonna become a problemmmm
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I been waiting on this to come on my timeline all morning
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Dawn the first famous person I’ve seen speak out about Cop city. Don’t know if there have been more I haven’t seen, I’m just making note.
There is so much they don’t want US to be aware of. Make sure you’re paying attention.
#StopCopCity
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That’s why I know that bitch was being anti-black. I can see what wasn’t typed even though what she typed out was damning enough.
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Notice who you bond with when you’re up and who you bond with when you’re down.
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This is why if you can afford to give money, you need to give. Because you not the one putting your body, mind, spirit & property on the line. The least you can do is make it less of a financial burden.
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Is y’all moon sign the same as your grandmother’s sun sign?
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Everybody, stop what you’re doing and wish Nicole Beharie a happy birthday ❤️🔥
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She's been asking to go to ballet class for 2 years. She's only been alive for 5. This excitement on her face is real 😂💖
#mysticmotherhood
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This is why he ain’t have no Black friends. They knew that wasn’t none of they business.
i would not be friends with harry potter if i went to hogwash. constant drama. whatever is going on between him and the devil is their business leave everybody else out of it.
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Meanwhile, Pocahontas was talking to her dead granny in the tree in 1995, Mulan had a visible ancestral council in 1998...you see what I’m saying
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I’m too old to be fucking up relationships because of self-righteousness. I feel my feelings. I process my feelings. I regulate my energy & nervous system. So by the time I’m engaging with you, I’m not doing so off emotion. And I may be calculated, but I’m very transparent.
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The cost of speaking your truth is you gone piss some people off. Even if it’s not directed at them. Even if you say it with love & respect. Even if, even if, even if.
Knowing your words have power means knowing some people will be impacted positively by them & others won’t.
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Patrick Paige II creates a portal to funk & fantasy through repetition, layered harmonies, and simple yet effective lyricism:
Happy Venus Day💓
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White people really be expectin you to move out the way. Don't even consider movin around YOU til you stay put and look at they ass like
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Jamila Woods, providing an example of how artists can move their audience to action on behalf of those suffering in Palestine & Sudan
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Stop glamorizing activism. This shit isn’t cute. People die. People get sent away for fuckin ever. People lose they families. Y’all don’t realize what political prisoners & activism who still living are in poverty. Poor health. Like this shit is not a fuckin game.
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This is sending me cuz I’m watching this documentary about Brazilian music & someone was talking about how samba was outlawed. So when cops heard it & tried to break it up, they covered it up by saying it was Candomblé lol
The one time in college when the police came & we had to act like we were having a church service 😂😂
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Non Blacks can’t comprehend when something isn’t about them Lmao. So annoying, man.
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As cis people, we are responsible for educating other cis people. However, when we start receiving amplification or platform or paid offers, that’s when you need to pass the mic to Black trans people. You not supposed to keep the mic.
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@shialacunt
Same. She really kept it together and didn’t make them feel the stress I know she felt.
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The worst thing I ever did was try to make my life make sense to my parents and people in my family. I don’t care what people do or don’t understand anymore, it’s literally not my business or my problem.
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I only like games when everyone consented to play.
I’m not into guilt-tripping, manipulation tactics, none of that. I will be silent until I know I’m speaking from a place of honesty & maturity. So if in the midst of that you get checked...It is what it is.
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If you’re not doing the hands-on work or you aren’t the one raising the funds for people, you don’t understand the toll it takes. It’s very hard work; it’s hard on the mind. The heart. The spirit.
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Paris would be getting arrested for protesting while Rory take her spot at the Yale Daily News.
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You grow up being the source of love for so many people. You see how much of a deficit people are in when it comes to love. And somehow you form the belief that you, the source of love for many aren’t entitled to a significant amount of love because all you see is the drought.
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Also, I appreciate the people mentioning Frozen 2 cuz it’s kinda proving my point. That movie came out in Nov. 2019. That’s before 2020, but not by much lol. Like that’s the only white movie that mentions ancestors out of all of them & it just came out less than 2 years ago.
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The minimal make up, all black and this hair...she looks great
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I can’t even order no food bro they shut down everything from delivering. It’s not even nothing happening over here, they just don’t got nobody wanna go to the black neighborhoods. So I guess if you disabled and need to eat you just gone have to starve.
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As humans, we get triggered. We get distracted. We get sucked in. We can be manipulated even when we’re intuitive & tapped in. We all have blind spots.
But hopefully over time you get better & better at not being easily moved by bullshit because you see a thing for what it is.
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*My 13 yo sister begging me for an iPhone* Me: when I was 13 you know what kinda phone I had?
My little sister: that was in the 1900s!
Me:
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A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with a client where they talked a lot about how integral repetition is to Black language & music. He was also saying how the spiral symbol is indicative of that, coming back around to repeat things. It inspired me to make this thread.
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@FIJI1983
Even a decent & timely apology (this is neither) is the bare minimum he could offer after the damage he inflicted on their lives & careers. And the public is allowed to critique it. Interrogate why you as a man think you know what makes an apology for harming women satisfactory.
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why does maturing feel like coming back to who I was as a child and letting myself be that? it's weird.
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people love tryna guilt you into voting talking about "your ancestors fought for you to be able to vote!" first of all, they fought for me to have the *option* to vote. secondly, those ancestors clearly produced me to radicalize the bloodline, not repeat everything they did.
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The voice in your head telling you that you aren’t doing enough is lying btw
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She not fake, she just cheered herself up instantly by seeing her own face. Iconic.
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That man went out fighting for his home and feeling betrayed by lifelong friends. I don’t like that. And he definitely had his faults, but he deserved better. He did.
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@diabolikfairyy
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This is really it. We force people to face themselves. We don’t even have to try, it’s like they can’t be around us and not vomit up the truth and it usually is so ugly that it gets projected on to us because we facilitated it.
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To me, reading this feels like reading “black lives matter”. It feels redundant. Like it’s so basic it shouldn’t have to be said, we invented punk. Of course we “belong”.
This is y’all reminder that punk rock was created by 3 Black men in Detroit in the 70s & their name is DEATH
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You know what I'm gonna say it: these white singers be prospering but black R&b singers w/ 10x more talent cant get further than a 2nd album
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I originally saw someone else point this out last year but I cannot find the tweet. But it still trips me out so I made this lol.
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Every challenging situation is a opportunity to see what you’re really capable of. If you only focused on the fact that it’s difficult, you will miss the opportunity to grow by complaining.
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Between Victoria Monet, Coco Jones, Leon Thomas & Durand Bernarr, I really dont wanna hear nothing about R&B being dead.
And they aren’t even close to the only artists making great contributions to the genre rn.
We are living through a R&B resurgence right now, I’m grateful.
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There’s truth in this, but it’s also not this cut and dry for every houseless person. Sometimes they will appreciate you buying them a hot meal because if they try to go in & get it, they could very well be in a unsafe situation just by existing & appearing as they do.
Don’t buy a homeless person food. Just give them the money if you have it. You think you mean well but what you’re doing is taking away their autonomy & ability to make choices for themselves.
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Aries moon women are capable of k*lling you, but instead we will just scare you to the point you act right. It’s honestly generous of us, we’re providing a service.
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Teenagers deserve the space to be angry, irritable, dissatisfied, angsty, scared, lonely, confused, etc. Just because they aren’t babies doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be held with compassion. The love + support they need is different from little kids, but they still need it.
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Sometimes a person’s inability to commit to you isn’t a symptom of something they need to heal or grow from.
Sometimes it’s not meant to be & the compulsion to create a story where them rejecting you is a failure on their part is you being unable to accept things as they are.
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When his aphrodisiac is giving you what you want & putting a smile on your face
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One of the most crucial parts of parenting is making sure your kids have other trusted adults in their life that they can talk to. And accept that just like it’s things you didn’t tell your parents, it’s things they won’t want to tell you. Even if y’all are close.
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I don’t believe in right person, wrong time. If the timing is keeping y’all from progressing, that is not the right person.
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Exactly. If a schizophrenic person start having an episode, y’all still gonna call the police even if they not directly threatening you. And that’s the problem.
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I just thought about how in Game of Thrones the North had those tombs for their dead and those statues. That is the most recent form of ancestral veneration I can call to mind when it comes to media that is about white people.
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If you see the same houseless person more than once, you need to ask their name. They’re part of your community.
If only 1 or 2 of us are asking about them & looking out for them, they go neglected.
When all or most of us look out for them, they have the support of a community.
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I think a lot of people downplay the importance of political education, but Fred Hampton had it right.
The number of people who can be organized explicitly depend on the number of people whose ideology is rooted in community & anti-imperialism.
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Holes low-key one of the best movies you can show a kid to help them understand how racism and generational curses intertwined with mass incarceration plays out over here in America. It’s straightforward & easy to understand.
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We almost there y’all!!! Can we get her $860 in the next 20 minutes? I think we can. LETS GO😤
Today I want to take the focus off of me and my kids. I want y’all to boost and donate this fundraiser for Ameer, a mommy of 2. I want her to reach her goal by the end of the day. $2k is not that much & she needs it for dem babies, herself & her family💸🦋
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