Vean Ima (vee-ann)
@vean_ima
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🇩🇲🇬🇩Writer, Poet and Singer - Teller of Black Stories. On Instagram mostly. Rep @kemi_Oguns
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Their names were Damilola Taylor and Stephen Lawrence a quick google could have ensured you spelt their names correctly! Stephen was killed by a white, racist mob so not sure what your point is. As for my voice you haven’t heard nothing yet.
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Today I acknowledge the souls
that have passed on
The ones who watched these uncertain times unfold but will
never celebrate it’s end
I will treasure every moment today
in their honour
I will observe a silence
recite beautiful words
and remember them
#COVID19
#coronavirus
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We support you
@HackneyAbbott
now and always. You have endured so much and yet you stand. We see you, we see ourselves in you and we thank you for making a way, for standing as a beacon of light that inspires us all.
#DianeAbbott
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Be very afraid
(especially if you are Black or Brown)
of any one justifying a genocide
(even if they are Black or Brown).
Cos history already told us some stuff.
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Racists say ‘race card’ I call it an often difficult lived experience created by their ancestors to uphold white supremacy and kid themselves into thinking they were superior, there would be no card to pull had they not created race as a social construct in the first place.
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Bantu knots, afro puffs, du-du plaits, cornrows, Senegalese twists, locs, box braids, knotless braids, Fulani braids, tree braids, stitch braids, weave, crochet, faux locs, passion twists, goddess braids; the hair of Black women is a language.
#BlackWomen
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It can’t always be love and light. Some days we must feel the clashing thunder of our emotions in order to fully reflect on who we are, where we’re at, where we desire to be, what needs to be released and what needs to change. We need to be stirred in the truth of ourselves.
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Today I acknowledge
the good in me;
and call myself wonderful,
believing every syllable.
Today my voice will summon magnificent things to find me and my lack of self worth will not divert them from me.
#SelfCareSunday
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Very happy for you Megan. Happy a jury believed you. Happy you are healing.
#MeganTheeStallion
#believeblackwomen
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If I ever need love I won’t care what colour, race or gender you are.What name you give your God or what language falls from your lips. Your sexual preferences or pronouns would be of no concern to me,human to human I just hope you’d love on me.
#poetrylovers
#WritingCommunity
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In silencing
@HackneyAbbott
by allowing blatant violent racism to be downplayed, you unleashed the tongues of thousands of Black women and allies to speak up in support of her and all Black women this society allows to be abused and dehumanised.
#DianeAbbott
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Men need to stop killing women.
Don’t tell us what we need to do to be safe!How about you just leave us alone, taking it upon your pathetic selves to decide if we live to see another sunrise.Keep your hands off us so our names keep off headstones and out of terrifying headlines.
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Already saying he’s mentally disturbed, this alone lets me know the perpetrator is white. No “evil” “dangerous” or “terrorist. No poor baby is unwell. No mention of skin colour or ethnicity, just “man”. Makes me sick.
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If I cannot be myself with you
then I cannot be anything else
to you, with you or for you;
the effort alone will kill me.
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Their acknowledgment does not validate you. You were always there, potent, gifted and wonderful, it’s just that now they see you. That’s it love, now they see what has always been there.
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Dear husband, please don’t ever think about protecting me or upholding my honour in this way, I neither have the bail money to get you out, or the strength to raise these six children alone if you’re banged up for GBH.
Please and thank you, Vean
#Oscars
#willsmithchrisrock
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I do fear a lot of things but men with too much power, more than anything.
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‘Black Milk’ by Vean Ima. Music by Jonny Easton ‘Exile’.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistory
#blackwomen
#BlackLivesMatter
#poetrycommunity
#writer
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Yesterday was EVERYTHING! So glad to have been a part of the
#ukprotests
#BlackLivesMattterUK
✊🏾🖤
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May your scattered scars be a reminder of each time you healed.
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I can’t always wait for brave, so I’ll just get up and do it afraid. Walking firmly though fear is pulling me the other way, staring my future in the face, even though my now is a comfier place to stay. Sweat beads upon my head attempt to shame but I’m doing it today, afraid.
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I don’t always want to be the strong Black woman, sometimes I want to be the damsel in distress and have everyone believe me when I cry.
#BlackWomen
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If I don’t say NO from time to time
I am telling my body that I’m not worthy of rest, a time to heal or a time to replenish. I am telling my mother I learned nothing from her toil. I am teaching my children they must endure and not enjoy.
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When George Floyd died (a lot of )white people followed us on Instagram, slid into our DM’s, put BLM in their bio’s, promoted us, bought our books, started book clubs, asked our rates, threw statues into rivers on our behalf, told their grannies to stop saying the N word,
#BLM
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The deeper I go I realise
I can actually swim
That there’s nothing to fear
I will not drown
I may disappear under the surface
for just a while;
But I’ll return...
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The spirit of an abused woman rolls downwrds an inch or two off her destiny everyday. Like wallpaper in an old abandoned house, peeling away from what once supported it. Until it falls unheard in defeat.
#believewomen
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We’re all nicer in real life
When we’re seen full size, without any edits.
When we’re not reduced to likes, shares and engagement.
When there’s more to us than our latest announcement.
New me, new business, new baby, new house.
New shoes, new job, new pet, new spouse. 1/2
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When you first open your mouth on your healing journey, the first sounds you release may be pitiful and weak but release them still. Your roar is coming.
#healingjourney
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I am ready to pick up the pieces of me I dropped on my journey, ready to recover all that I lost to become whole again. With renewed strength I will reinstate worth, purpose, joy and peace, proudly bringing me back to my former glory. Finally bringing me back to me.
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You are more than numbers on a scale
More than how well you’re ageing
More than your worn down nails
You are someone’s favourite memory
You are your lovers favourite place to hide. You are a child’s favourite voice as they drift off. All that is important is inside.
#worth
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White society somehow sees past pig tails, awkward limbs and voices that have yet to break, because Black is code for strong, Black means accountable, Black is void of innocence, black needs no protection.
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When you are not the one on fire you cannot fully perceive how badly water is needed. You are not feeling parts of yourself melt and fall as the heat attempts to dissolve your past and your future.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#racism
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Women should not be defined by motherhood and birth. Children do not determine your value or the legacy you will leave on this earth.
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@AkanKwaku
Thank you, truly wish it wasn’t the case but we can’t ignore what is obvious and what so many of us have known from the start.
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Performing yesterday for
@LastingSupport
. A wonderful charity, meeting their community’s needs.
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#Blackhistorymonth
poetry series by Vean Ima. Music by Jonny Easton.
#BlackGirlMagic
#poetry
#spokenword
#history
#writer
#photography
#blackisthenewblack
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I’ve learned in life that you’ll win some and you’ll lose some but now I understand that as long as I don’t lose myself I’ll always win.
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Sometimes I’m so tired
I’m literally being held together by day old make up and big dreams
Like often times I’m actually breaking at the seams
Even though the sun still shines and the moon still beams
Staring at my reflection hoping for less drama and more queen.
#poetry
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You are not seeing the charred remains of ancestors hanging on your walls like macabre art because the water took too long to come. 2/3
#racism
#BlackLivesMatter
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I’m glad you voted and yep, your new kitchen has been noted.
But I like us better outside of the phone.
Too bad it’s now our second home. 2/2
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I acknowledge the souls that have passed on this year. The ones who watched these uncertain times unfold but will never celebrate its end.
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Spoken word by Vean Ima. Music by Jonny Easton.
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#Blackhistorymonth
#art
#BlackGirlMagic
#InspirationalQuotes
#writer
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Spoken word by Vean Ima/ Music by Jonny Easton
#blackhistorymonth
#MeghanAndHarry
#MeghanPregnant
#MeghanMarkle
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There is no body of water more dangerous than the stream that flows from the face of a white woman when she is called out. These tears like red fabric to a bull are a call to action, often marking the beginning of the end to men and women who’s bodies are draped in Black skin.
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Love is not afraid to get dirty, get ugly get real.
Love never shy’s away from the battle because love knows that to heal you have to feel.
Love is at its best when it’s self less, unconditional and raw.
Love dares you to dream again, it’s optimism too hard to ignore.
#love
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Desmond Tutu, you stood up to who and what oppressed you.
Cleared pathways for others to pass through. Left words our weary hearts could cling to. A leader, a teacher, a light; your rest was surely due.
#DesmondTutu
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You are more than your yesterday and more than your imagined tomorrow. Right now, in this moment is the greatest you, you could ever be.
She is here, she is present, she is now.
#selflove
#blackwriters
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I can’t always wait for brave, so I just have to get up and do it afraid.Walking firmly though fear is pulling me the other way, staring my future in the face, even though my now is a comfier place to stay. Sweat beads upon my head attempt to shame but I’m doing it afraid, today.
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Many women equate their value to motherhood and matrimony.
But there is much to be learned from the women who's potency and fire is not determined by who they married or who they carried.
#womenempowerment
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When you wake up tomorrow, speak your name out loud into the world and alert every good thing that you are ready to receive it.
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#poem
‘Black Milk’ by Vean Ima
#music
by Jonny Easton
#BlackHistoryMonth
#breastfeed
#breastfed
#Racism
#WomensRights
#milk
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‘When one black mama cries, all black mamas die a little inside.’ -vean Ima-
#NateWoods
#NathanielWoods
#RIPNateWoods
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I’m truly hoping that the sharing of photos in support of Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka does not become another BLACK SQUARE moment. We need more.
#Notoracism
#MarcusRashford
#EURO2020
#bukayosaka
#JadonSancho
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