April 2013
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coping.
I dont think I can look at another man with the same eyes.
Taste his tongue as if it were yours.
I dont think I could hold his gaze for moments of purity, where the vacant noise fills with the yearning of our hearts.
I’ve looked for men with hands like yours, ones that mended too many times before.
Ones that gathered my feet to your lap.
Ones that held my tears like the last droplets of...
March 2013
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“I see him sometimes and the look in his eye
Is one of a man who’s lost...”
– lauryn hill
February 2013
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ashwednesday.
I know for Lent your usually suppose to give something up, but for the past two years I’ve stopped doing that and I started taking something on. This lent I decided to do more of an outreach type of thing. Not necessarily speak the gospel, but be THAT christian that I know I am, and suppose to be. I just feel like in college its so easy to get caught up with other things that aren’t...
It’s insane realizing how much has changed in the past year. How much I’ve changed in the last year. You know what, I’m happy though. Like for the first time in a minute, I’m content. And I really don’t know what you can ask for other than that. Im really really blessed. God willing, it will remain this way.
'What We Have' by Warsan Shire
Our men do not belong to us. Even my own father, left one afternoon, is not mine. My brother is in prison, is not mine. My uncles, they go back home and they are shot in the head, are not mine. My cousins, stabbed in the street for being too – or not – enough, are not mine.
Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to...
January 2013
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2013.
did this for the last two years and only feel like i should keep it going…
2012 was nothing I expected. Especially the last four months. Just a whirlwind of ?!? I wont elaborate but I’m not happy about all the turnouts, but as always God is behind every happening with a reason and I have to give it to Him at the end of the day. 2012 its been real, real, but im saying peace to you...
November 2012
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Taking a step back and choosing to love myself again. Self reflection November.
October 2012
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Friends that hold me down, thank you.
September 2012
3 posts
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“You let yourself inside with no respect for privacy
You said there’s too...”
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August 2012
4 posts
so thank god the stars don’t judge us for what we do beneath them
thank god the stars don’t see the evil we commit under their names
thank god for the silence
for the dimness
for nights spent alone
thank god for friends who know more than your bra strap
and thank god for cab rides home
— Alysia Harris
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How many times have you gotten up to say something, but just sat right back down?
Countless.
I always just think…one day, I will.
July 2012
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purplemattersunset.
7/23/12 - Frank Ocean Concert.
Hands down, this was the best night of my summer. Frank Ocean was literally phenomenal, his solo guitarist was jaw dropping, his entire crew just made the show so much better. He really did so well for his first solo tour, he was just sooo good. Being in the front row might make me bias but he was amazing. I had such a damn good night, I’m still dying about...
Dreaming Outloud: Beyonce & Jay-Z's letter to... →
emilyofthestate:
SO CUTE.
“Thank you, Frank Ocean.
It’s true, we are a lot alike… “spinning on blackness. All wanting to be seen, touched, heard, paid attention to.” In your opening few lines, you simultaneously established your humanity, a burden far too often asked of same sex lovers, and acknowledged that in…
June 2012
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Watchwarsanshire:
VIDEO PREMIERE.
today i found an unexpected email from a beautiful stranger named christine mehr. she created this short film to my poem ‘for women who are difficult to love’. the world is bulging with gentle stunning spirits. so grateful that they find me and share themselves. and in turn i share with you.
video - christine mehr
cello - zoe keating
poetry - warsan shire
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May 2012
1 post
understanding the mis-understandings.
Its hard to find the simplicity in things especially because everything has gotten so complex. I don’t think I’ll ever understand the concept, but it sucks knowing that I still haven’t been able to find peace within it. Maybe understanding will come in time, but for right now…im so lost. I just wish things like this didnt happen, and now I understand why my parents shielded...
April 2012
4 posts
hip-hop.
I’m finishing up my 15 page paper on hip-hop in today’s society, and well damn….Rap Artist destroyed hip-hop now compared to before…The worst part is we commend these rappers that speak about absolutely NOTHING. I literally listened to hours worth of Common, Talib Kweli, Nas, and Mos Def and they are genuine rappers that actuallyspeak about issues in our society. They work...
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giveyourheartabreak.
You’ll know when you know. I’m not going to fight for something that’s not meant to be. Never been the one not to try something, but never was the one who forced something to try. Patience is everything.
March 2012
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“I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was...”
– Indian Poet
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February 2012
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“Sometimes life doesn’t want to give you something you want, not because you...”
– Unknown.
something I really needed to hear at the moment.
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Ru'ah
It’s Hebrew for breath, wind, spirit. It is beautiful. I love learning words from a different language. Hebrew is def. on the lists of languages I want to learn after Arabic. Plus, this is so convenient to learn especially on Ash Wednesday, marking the start of Lent. This year I finally decided to do something different. Instead of giving up something I love, I’m going to take on a...
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motivation.
Whenever I look at my homework and don’t want to do it. My instant thought is my parents. I respect them too much not to care. I love them too much to see them disappointed in me. Better yet, I care enough about my future that I will take care of my own. My parents raised me right and I hope they never question that. They never believe that they could’ve done or given me more because...
January 2012
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“In life, I don’t really want much. I honestly would just be happy with the...”
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teachmehowtolove.
Show me the way to surrender my heart..teach me how to love. How I can get my emotions involved?
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