Category: grants
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Keep knowing your worth!
It’s been 7 months of working in a new and supportive space and the key lessons from my 3 month mark remain the same: 1) Know your worth; 2) Dream about your worth even if for yourself alone: 3) Speak eloquently and proudly about your worth; 4) Leave any space and people who do not…
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Keep dreams heavy.
That time I thought tough times last, I went closer to the edge without falling over. Surely God had a hand in this as well as Papa and mama Ocha and of course the one named Onyelo. So, I stood and my stance as the one with the golden hair said, is like no other.…
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Keep imagining them oooh….
Imagine being among creatures of vanity. Imagine wondering what do they even know. Imagine their blindness to a single blazing star, even though they belong to a pleading sky. Now imagine how they must the feel, the exhilaration of a cup that overflows, of moments they see reaching high to the bare cliff edge. For…
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Keep scarves…
I was born with a scarf on my head. My shoulders too. Like my mother and her mother too. We were born wearing scarves, handwoven with threads, or hand-dyed with care, silent and golden. A generation of pride crowned the top of our heads with every scarf. I have worn scarves older than the day…
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Keep knowing that power is female!
We started this year in an inescapable cycle of suffering. We were also exhausted. Until we decided to claim some power over everything. We started to asked ourselves questions like what periods of growth have we wasted? What moments of gradual growth? Those that came unexpected and wild. Those unnamed and mild. Or what moments…
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Keep thick love and the power of your grants!
That we have been engaging in a persistent struggle should be widely known. We have been riddled with struggles ever since we decided to mingle in the whispers of academic circles. The whole problem though seemed to be informed by two things. What we want, that is bigger than ourselves and what they want to…
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Keep being radiant!
Some of us hide our voice under fear. In an unknown space where our dreams and our will are at war. We end up being in our own way. Things are not as easy as they seem. So we hide our thoughts under fear. Until we proceed towards ourselves. For who wants a life of…
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Keep beginning again even with grants!
From now on, the world has you and all theways you begin again, blazing through, your way, for life. The world sees you, as you stand aside, laying your weapon aside. Grants are like poetry to you, and so, as always, begin again. For the world, has only one of you… Earlier today, the words…
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Keep these songs from our ancestors, we sing!
Knowledge is for the ancestors. I am learning that every day as I sink deeply into an anthem of the decades. From the origin of life, to the nature of words and their meanings, they say the secret of ancient wisdom lies in what we name, and the meanings we keep, those new, those forgotten…
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Keep leaning not on your own!
I have seen wide eyes that mirrored my soul. Daring heights with wonder still nestled in my soul. They say hope is a thing you never do alone, even if you die alone. Find it all the way down in yourself, where it can never be judged like children, who tell stories, all on their…
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Keep surrendering to your dreams!
I did a thing today. Surrendered my dreams to universe. They say there are two moments that define a person’s life. The day they are born and the day they realize why. I found my why today. Like Kwesi Brew’s poem, I know which road to take….
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Keep funding your dreams!
My destiny is mine. It has always been from the day I was named Isioma. It’s the reason why I resign from places and people who keep me stale. It’s the reason why dreaming is a form of resistance to me. See where you are obsessed with one grant or one class, I’m on to…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 