NEW POEM ALERT🍉
Watermelon poem coming soon. Super excited to be writing this! And most to share it with you.
#afrikanface #blackwriters #blackwords #girlrillavintage #poems #theeamazinggrace #watermelon #watermelongrace #watermelonpoem #writingformylife #writingistherapy
Been having heavy conversations with friends lately about what justifiable reparations looks like for us surviving descendants of enslaved Afrikan Americans.
To me it looks like black people being tax exempt for at least 400 years. Also, the government fully funding the purchase of a home or land to build whatever we want on it. That way we have an opportunity to build our own economic wealth in this country. That resonates for me.
What does #reparations look like to you? ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏾
#afrikanface #blackliberation #blacklivesmatter #blackpower #caseforreparations #girlrillavintage #reparations #reparationsnow #reparationsforslavery #reparations2020 #taxexempt #theeamazinggrace #thetimeisnow
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
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
We often throw the words codependent or codependency around, not truly understanding what it means. Honestly, I’m a recovering codependent. I never knew that codependence is considered to be a disease like that of an addiction.
How 3 of our main institutions (churches, families, and schools) actively teach us to not form boundaries, to stay in addictive, suffering, possessive, clingy relationships.
Or normalizing duality and fused identities vs coming together as individuals. This book is awesome and teaching me new things!
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
#afrikanface #boundariesarehealthy #codependenceisadisease #codependencyrecovery #context #girlrillavintage #perspective #recoveringcodependent #sharingiscaring #smudgetalk #understandingcodependency #vulnerabilityisnecessary
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
Ancient Kemetism teaches us about the importance of Ka (life force) activation. How to vibrate higher, let go of denser energies and to join forces with our higher vibrational selves. There are 13 levels to this shit. Be of service to yourselves and research that. It’s been mind blowing to me this far.
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
#afrikanface #ancientkemet #ancientwisdom #ascensiontalk #beofservicetoyourself #electricalcurrent #egypt #energy #evolution #fifthdimensionandbeyond #girlrillavintage #getyourlessons #kaactivation #levelstothisshit #shadowkeepersandroothealers #theeamazinggrace #throwbackpic #vibrationalfrequencies #wcw
Photo credit Blvck Vrchives
Summers in Philly were hot as giraffe nuts lol! I remember the elders on our block turning on the water with a big wrench or how somebody would block the hose to make the water spray on us. Everybody was in the streets to cool off, even the hood dudes and drug dealers lol! That coupled with the water ice truck and soft pretzels (when everything was 50 cents), playing wall ball, double Dutch, man hunt, and racing each other as fast as we could around the block are the few good memories I cherish from my childhood. 🙏🏾 for this priceless 📸 from 1963 Blvck Vrchives. Brings back so many memories.
—TheeAmazingGrace ♥️
#afrikanface #blackarchives #citylife #everybodylovesthesunshine #girlrillavintage #goodtimes #hoodchronicles #memoriesdontlivelikepeopledo #phillylife #rememberwhen #sundays #westphiladelphiabornandraised
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