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Keep being STARS!
And so we begin. Welcome to STAR cohort 3 where to be a star, is to do work that Toni Morrison would say is beautiful, powerful, but should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens doors and points the ways. Let’s Go STARS.
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Keep each day!
Night ends and though this day won’t happen again, we know where we stand, and see the light that shines, and the way we opened and reopened our heart, the way we knew the call was his for his sake, the way these words flow like a lake, is the reason why a day should…
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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 the delight of failures!
To my failures, those recent and those over a decade ago, those big and small, all of you bold yet with no hope, know that you are my delight, my highest degree of satisfaction, my pleasure, to all the ways you make me feel content, to all the struggles and joy you bring, to all…
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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 lighting a path for the public’s health!
If and when the public takes their rightful place with health, if and when they do, and they are freed from all the bondage exclusively cultivated by those that purport to study them, love them maybe, I hope they are not ignored as those midnight that burn, otherwise what would be the purpose? A voice…
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Keep the sounds of love for 2024!
This evening as we gathered together, I listened to sounds of those that hold us close. One was crying, my first son. He had just used his dad’s clippers to scrap hair off his head. His little brothers and older sister talked about getting him a toupe to cover his head as his dad tried…
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Keep your name and the peace it brings!
And the dreams of my father, those nurtured in a place where sands are red, spoke to me again, from the depths of our soul, through storms raging, through torrents pouring, saying even anger will never reach your soul, even if hot pebbles fall on your bare skin, even if the heavens force the skies…
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Keep these beginnings!
These days I remember the way we begin. I also remember the way we die. When you have seen a life, seen it dissolve to the earth, then memories are like the air we breathe. Angie was her name. I say it in memory of her spirit, her voice, her love, her life. We are…
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Keep being a revolution or doing what Nikki Giovanni says!
Her words were power. I lived by them. The idea for example of living militant dreams of showing folks how things should be done is at the heart of why I write here every day. Part distraction, part invitation, all a reflection that my story will always be mine, always unfold in ways that are…
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Keep the thanksgiving lessons of a burning bush!
These days the comfort with cleverness of our times, whether with the speed of things instant, or the news of things social, all don’t ignite me. Rather, this morning, we begin again with grace, in thanks, with eyes burning like a bush endlessly brilliant, endlessly bright, for the warmness of these times, the love of…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 