Shout out to all the GOGIS BLACK FOLKS being their beautiful BLACK ASS SELVES today and every day! I know I’m ouchea lol! Love y’all. Happy black freedom day! 🖤✊🏿🖤
🎶 @kojeyradical “No Gangster”
#afrikanface #africanoriginal #afromullett #autochthonous #blackityblack #blackjoy #blacklivesmatter #cowrieshells #decolonizeyourbookshelf #girlrillavintage #juneteenth #loveisintheair #theeamazinggrace #thelittlethings #trueafricanoriginal #wecomefromsomeplace
Repost @ozmynoree
“She Can’t Breathe” 2018
from ongoing series “I’m Still Black”
“I took this photo roughly two years ago, and it’s crazy to me how it relates to current events now. I had no idea the impact her gesture would have in today’s climate. I wonder if some force was reaching out to me sub-consciously trying to tell me what was coming through my photography. It’s almost creepy.”
#africandance #artistsoflanc #blackphotographersmatter #blackphotographer #717creative #girlrillavintage #imstillblack #osmynoree #shadowkeeper #roothealer #theeamazinggrace
Stone fruit. A visual poem. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
#afrikanface #africanroots #girlrillavintage #letloose #lovemood #selfieshoot #solitude #stonefruit #theeamazinggrace #trustinyou #womanoftheroot
Dear ancestors,
Thanks in advance for the new car and sweet little house!
All my love,
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
PS: Those wondering about what Yoru means, it literally translates to, “night” in the Japanese language. Yoru is one of the strongest swords in the world. It is one of the twelve Saijo O Wazamono or “Black Sword/Blades”. In a world crumbling around us, be the strongest black sword today!
📸♥️🙏🏾 Kimyatta Williams
🎨 One dope app
#afrikanface #africandiaspora #abundancecall #ancestorsprovide #blacksword #blackwomenbelike #conjurewoman #girlrillavintage #girlrillavintagedotme #imsunflowerssista #loveisessential #manifestandmaintain #mendewoman #merlica #mindfullnessmeditation #orisa #rememberyourroots #2020aintoveryet #sankofa #shadowkeepersandroothealers #speakitintoexistence #strongesrswordintheworld #theeamazinggrace #yoruba #yoru #westafrican
“The only time I use okra is for medicine.” —Luisah Tiesh
In the healing spirit of GirlrillaVintage, I’d like to offer up an early bird smudgetalk on plant healing. 🦉
Did you know that eating okra or drinking it’s water is a great choice for treating bowel irregularity? And as many of us know that when the bowels ain’t movin’ the crankiness gets to loomin’. And relieving the colon can eliminate many diseases and conditions such as high blood pressure, skin irritation, headaches, anxiety and depression to name a few.
I’ve been intentionally slow walking this book because it’s chock full of amazing and practical information about herbs and holistic medicine from the experiences of elders of Afrikan descent born in America.
Here’s a snippet from the book, “Working the Roots Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing”, that boosted my ole cranky, constipated mood lol! Also, I discovered from reading this book that Luisah Tiesh (still with us btw) authored a book called, “Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals”, that I recently ordered. Get into it. And enjoy all this goodness!
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
#afrikanface #ancestorsleadtheway #constipationblues #episodeonesmudgetalk #girlrillavintage #healthyself #jambalayathenaturalwomansbook #rootmedicine #shadowkeepersandroothealers #smudgetalk #storytime #thepowerofokra #vulnerabilityisnecessary #workingtherootsover400yearsoftraditionalafricanamericanhealing
Ancestor. Amiri Baraka. Thank you. This nudge. This invitation. This feeling. This LP. This gentle movement. Cheers! Yours. Experimental. Wildly staccato. I want to write in your likeness with my gift. My twist. 🙏🏾 for the heart beat. For remembering us that you knew would be born. Ashe-O
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
#afrikanface #ancestorsspeak #ashe #artisawayoflivinganddying #blackisbeautiful #blackdaddysoul #comebackpharoa #girlrillavintage #imamuamiribaraka #itsnationtime #letmebe #love #movefreely #poetryisnotdead #shadowkeepersandroothealers #spokenwords #whowillsurviveamerica
I planned a bday bash in March, but had to postpone after the virus hit. Today my bestie @cynmoni & mommy B surprised me by dropping off belated gifts and an abundance of love in the finest social distancing fashion lol! Between mommy B’s homemade sweet potato pie, plum preserves and handmade masks I’m on top of the world. Thank y’all so much!
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️💕♥️
#afrikanface #blacklove #bestiesforlife #familyties #giftgiving #girlrillavintage #happybelatedbirthdaytome #piscesnation #thankyou #theeamazinggrace
Stank ass laundry day lol! I know…I joke around about washing my stank ass laundry, yet I know the privilege it is to be able to wash my ass and my laundry.
Folks could NEVER imagine the half me, my brothers and mom survived. Sleeping in abandoned houses, bellies scraping our spines, being brutalized by predatory dick heads, mama having to sex work for money, food and shelter, shamed for being impoverished.
I don’t live this life to take any of it for granite although, I have at times. Grateful to be here to tell it, to smile while telling it, knowing I never have to go back there. Bless those in struggle for basic human necessities. Trust, life won’t always be like this.
—TheeAmazingGrace
#afrikanface #awarenessiskey #bekindtoyourself #girlrillavintage #knowyourprivilege #laundryday #lifewontalwaysbelikethis #sharingmytruth #stayinthestruggle #theeamazinggrace
Circa 1997
I was 17 yrs young and never seized to find who I was back then. We were visiting my brother David at Devereaux and learned that he was a person living with schizophrenia the paranoid type. We asked so many questions. How beautiful, David tried to answer. Our love and strength during that time mirrored each other.
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
#afrikanface #ancestorsremember #circa1997 #familymatters #girlrillavintage #imsunflowerssista #love #memorylane #mybrotherskeeper #restinpowerlittlebrother #skinnydip #sunflower #theeamazinggrace #tbt #youthfulglow
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