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Keep flying above your possibilities!
Read more: Keep flying above your possibilities!Let’s fly above our possibilities, Lucille Clifton once said to my spirit, to which I responded, not just my possibilities, but how about flying above our abilities. Above my ambitions. Above their admissions. Above any ammunitions. And above their assumptions. Then the spirit moved me and said you are onto something, keep flying above your…
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Keep becoming light!
Read more: Keep becoming light!Lucile Clifton once shared, how our lives are a circular stair. It keeps turning through time. To know why, we circle the world and back, one year after the other, is to know light. I am flooded by the brilliance of light. A majestic ray, that blooms, past the very speed of itself. The very…
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Keep asking questions!
Read more: Keep asking questions!Maybe we should have talked more often. I should have asked more questions too. Not just hello, or how are you or Ke maka Di gi, or Chekwube? But have you checked your cervix lately? When was the last time you checked? Did you collect the sample by your self? What did the results say?…
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Keep welcoming mama home!
Read more: Keep welcoming mama home!Mama returned home today. About two months after the greatest heart-wrenching ordeal, the longest mutterings of sorrow, of hearts completely in despair. Our hearts are still broken, still shattered in pieces. But seeing the glimmer in her eyes, made it clear; we would get through this deepest darkness. And the darkness is so deep, still…
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Keep holding on to what you know!
Read more: Keep holding on to what you know!Hold on to what you know. Hold on to it even if others question you, question what you know. Still hold on to it, for what you know will never disappoint you, disagree with you or deny you too. I am learning that the hard and costly way. This one is a reminder for me.
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Keep dreaming of life beyond the moon!
Read more: Keep dreaming of life beyond the moon!Claude McKay once wrote a poem entitled ‘if we must die.’ In it, he shared that may our death not be like hogs who are hunted and penned down, while dogs, mad and hungry bark around, mocking us even for dying like pigs. We are better than pigs. Much more glorious. And so if death…
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Keep the name, face, and voice of Henrietta Lacks in mind!
Read more: Keep the name, face, and voice of Henrietta Lacks in mind!Henrietta Lacks is like all of us to the scientific landscape. Nameless, faceless, voiceless, with no power to make decisions with how we are viewed to the field. She didn’t have a say with her own unique cells. No wonder people distrust a paradigm that continues to treat people as if they have no name,…
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Keep dreaming with those who choose love!
Read more: Keep dreaming with those who choose love!Love is the closest thing to heaven on earth. It’s the closet thing to what we all deserve, what we all dream to have. To love, be loved, and die loved. It’s the light we all need when surrounded by so much darkness. To light, be lit, and die with light. To let our light…
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Keep learning from painful experiences!
Read more: Keep learning from painful experiences!Sometimes, it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. I firmly believe this. To see the true manifestation of this word, also means you divorce yourself from the experiences and people who created or enabled those painful experiences to emerge in the first place. I wholeheartedly believe this. All the looking into…
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Keep living beyond yourself for your children!
Read more: Keep living beyond yourself for your children!My children give me permission to dream as I watch black birds fly across cloudy skies. Permission to win as we celebrate my Belle dominating sports today. Permission to write about our favorite things like Andy’s frozen custard or our favorite place, Drace Park. Permission to laugh about silly things like would you kneel or…
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Keep formalized curiosity!
Read more: Keep formalized curiosity!Zora Neale Hurston described research as a ‘formalized curiosity.’ One that involves poking and prying with a purpose. I have been blessed to call research my job. To engage in this formalized curiosity full time is the best gift I have ever given to myself. Many take it for granted, but I know what I…
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Keep dreaming unending dreams!
Read more: Keep dreaming unending dreams!Dreams show us what we can be. Unending dreams based on stories untold. Music unheard. Art unseen. Words unspoken. Visions untapped. Ideas unimaginable. Strength unknown. Intensity unrelenting. Wisdom understated. Prayers unceasing. Truth unapologetic. Love unstoppable. Failure untiring. Revolution unexpected. Territories uncharted. Possibilities unseen. Stars undenied. Fire unquenched. These fires in my head. Transformed into visions…
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