Tag: Black Women
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Keep Olisadubem or God being your guide always!
We call him Olisa. His full name if you ask is Olisadubem. But everyone calls him Olisa. The idea of naming our child after God is a treasure we will forever keep. He is as God is. Full of himself, as his ways are not ours. Still we know and see God in him, pray…
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Keep these days!
Days have minds of their own. Some days I’ll sit and listen as children sing, play, fight, then sing again. Other days, I’ll watch as they live peacefully, teaching the power of love, with blankets draped around their bodies. These days even as we wear this shadow called life, I hope to always to watch,…
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Keep your name!
If you ask, I’ll say freedom, dreams, failure, perseverance, love, community, are the reasons why I do it, give names to the vision, my papa and Onyelo, plus mama, saw when they first named me, framed me, for things good.
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Keep living for grace unfiltered!
These days, whenever anyone asks how we are coping, I say with joy, with grace, with fortitude, with light. I share that those who know they belong to a higher power, can never cower when trouble comes. This is how they begin, in the middle of chaos. They know to get their wings ready, know…
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Keep this gift of light!
Light’s colorful tint, brightens everyday, reminding us to repeatedly fill our minds with light. Everything about these days make us live for these days, those days too when Papa first named us light. Keep it.
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Keep grants for self-recovery!
bell hooks in Sisters of the yam, talked about the need for black women to engage in self-recovery. She was writing from the space of the continued devaluation of black womanhood, the extreme difficulties that make it hard for us to even develop a positive outlook of ourselves. Not only are we pitted against each…
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Keep being grass!
If you find me at the brink of giving up, at the point of forgetting love, at a basement with no light, at dawn with no song, at a gathering with no tears, at the edge with no words, at a Red Sea with no faith at a desert with no thirst at a devotion…
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Keep these moments!
We tried to lose ourselves in the moment. With kids crying and all. One wanted juice. The purple juice reserved for those who often visit. The other wanted a phone, whether new or old it didn’t matter. Yet a third wanted ice-cream, vanilla, chocolate, anything will do. The time was exactly 6pm and my fourth…
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Keep protecting your light!
I was reminded by a dear friend the other day that when I thought I dimmed my light, when during the transition year of 2023, the chaos and conflicts, the move from one place to another brought so much bitterness and anger, when I dimmed my energy, when I didn’t even acknowledge that I was…
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Keep words for every day things you love in 2025!
Everyday, I am surrounded by ideas beautiful, one of which is you, words to keep, firing up my life as nothing else could. Of course there are things to do, places to go, children to raise, and people to love, but still the thought of keeping words, one at a time, is like the red…
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Keep those who understand you!
About 2 years ago, I held a misunderstanding, with the one whose name is like mine. We didn’t speak for months, barely said hello or good bye. Then we met again, just as the sun turned around the earth, in a place where I once rested my head. We met to remember just how we…
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Keep stumbling dreams
Some dreams stumble, seeing nothing, not even the horizon until it meets vision and together they merge. Dreams are eyes that see stumble, see nothing, see horizons, see vision, even on a blunt path, they open and enter.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 