Tag: black representation
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Keep black women leading!
Dear friend, embark on this incredible journey with unwavering confidence, as you step into a world that celebrates your brilliance and leadership. Your success is a beacon, inspiring countless black women to reach for the stars. Keep shining brightly and empowering others along the way.
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Keep the sanctuary of dreams!
I saw the most spell-binding collection that forced my mind to linger on what it means to dream. It led me to these words: What future do you envision? For yourself, your community, your world? What forces your heart to linger on the possibilities? I am learning these days, the role of dreams. Learning how…
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Keep the gaze of hawks!
Two subtle visitors, red tail hawks, arrived at my home today. They were more than the gaze that held them tightly, more than every day birds that flew lightly. They moved as I moved, flying then perching next to each other on a tree. They looked content and stared only at the things that greeted their…
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Keep seeing your smile!
I saw my smile the other day, saw how it made my eyes light up, saw how my lips became crooked, head tilted to the side, shoulders lean forward, all with an ease I could watch forever. So I started to see my smile more, see the way it burrowed deep within my soul, see…
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Keep this 4th anniversary, the one full of grace!
One of my favorite prayers begins with the word, “Hail Mary, full of grace.” If you know the next lines, for me, you would know that the lord has truly been with me. For who can go through fire, go through trials and somehow, get to the other side, oblivious to the fact that just…
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Keep treading softly in a place where the skies are grey and look out for places where the skies are blue!
My heart lingers in a place where the skies are grey. My head lingers in a space where the skies are grey. The days are grey. The people I meet are grey. I live through days with people who wear masks and the skies are grey. Come, come see my heart. Some may wonder, is…
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Keep this stream of consciousness named Isioma!
To survive, first begin. Preserve, do whatever it takes to lift yourself, free yourself from anything that is not in your name. What is your name. Who named you. When did they name you. Why did they name you. All this talk of naming began before anyone and anything framed you. They are like a…
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Keep walking through your storm!
We don’t get to pick our storms but we can choose how we go walk through them. Choose the armor we put on to battle the storms. Choose the legion that stands with us to defeat the storm. I am walking. I found myself in a storm recently, found myself reading and reading the reminder…
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Keep being seen with your stories!
I have been thinking lately about seeing and being seen. Photos for example, are moments in time that enable us to see, the subject, their stance, their worldview, whether good or bad. All of it are captured in an image that enables the eyes to see. It’s an art form too that illustrates a certain…
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Keep knowing Ani ka mmadu!
One year ago, we sat and watched as a people gathered on grounds we called home and prayed for us, thanked God for us, and insisted that everything good will come for us. They will never know how their prayers went on passed the grounds they prayed on through to the heavens above for a…
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Keep this season so joyful!
They say children will grow. Once when Christmas cookies all decked in red and green are made and baked. Eyes full of joy, twelve if you are counting, will break an egg, then pour the flour and knead the butter as if they have learnt to see with their mouths full of joy. Then they…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 