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iambrillyant · 21 hours

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“june, dissolve my uncertainty and thicken my resolve, submerge my doubt and give air to my aspirations. fill my cup with awareness and give me discernment to distance my energy from anything that fogs the path back to myself. may clarity find me even when it feels uncomfortable.”

— billy chapata

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deadassdiaspore · 1 year

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#Osman Yusuf Kenadid #African Poet #Somali #African languages #African inventors

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fruitfulodyssey · 1 year

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Woe is the man

Who plants seed

And does not know

What he is growing

- FruitfulOdyssey (Book: Journey of Discernment)

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positivesinglesdate · 2 years

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“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”

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nolahugs · 4 days

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🚀5 Secrets to Timeless Happiness

Celebrate your progress, keep moving.

Be brave, chase dreams fiercely.

Believe in miracles, shine endlessly.

Discover purpose, unleash potential, thrive.

Strive for balance in everything.

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amysweet · 4 days

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👋Happy Living 101: Dive In Now

Chase dreams relentlessly, never settle.

Honor your self-care rituals daily.

Optimism, your superpower, embrace.

Choose love over hate always.

Let gratitude fill your heart.

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thefugitivesaint · 2 years

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Nikki Giovanni, 'Allowables', ''Chasing Utopia'', 2013 Source

#nikki giovanni #Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.#american poets #african-american poets #allowables #chasing utopia #poetry #police brutality

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hauntedbystorytelling · 11 days

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Sylvia Plachy ~ Ntozake Shange, 1976 | src The New Yorker

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#sylvia plachy #ntozake shange #paulette williams #women artists #women poets #poetess #african american writer #portrait #women portraits #1970s #women photographers #black women

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yourdailyqueer · 7 days

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Angelina Weld Grimké (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 27 February 1880

RIP: 10 June 1958

Ethnicity: African American, white

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist, writer, teacher, playwright, poet

Note: First African-American women to have a play publicly performed.

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postcard-from-the-past · 1 month

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A griot (West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and musician) playing on Kora instrument

French vintage postcard

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iambrillyant · 4 months

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“your gut instinct is not a liar, those initial feelings exist for a reason, sit on them if you need to, process whether your feelings are valid or just projections, but never dismiss your intuition when the signs are staring you in the face and your nervous system is agreeing.”

— iambrillyant

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uwmspeccoll · 3 months

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Copper Sun

Last week we brought you Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen's (1903-1946) first major poem The Ballad of the Brown Girl. Today we present Cullen's second collected book of poetry, Copper Sun, published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1927, with illustrations by the same artist who illustrated Ballad, the unrelated Art Deco artist Charles Cullen (1887-?). Copper Sun is a collection of over fifty poems that explore race, religion, and sexuality in Jazz Age America, and particularly the possibility of unity between white and black people, as exemplified in the two Cullens, one black, the other white.

View more work by Countee Cullen.

View other books illustrated by Charles Cullen.

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#Black History Month #Countee Cullen #Charles Cullen #Copper Sun #Harper & Brothers #harlem renaissance #Art Deco #African Americans #Black writers #Black poets #African American writers #illustrated books

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fruitfulodyssey · 1 year

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Learning to observe

Myself in times of low,

Can be compromised

By immediate needs.

A work of art

Unworthy to be seen

By wandering eyes,

Because no one knows

The Demeanour, they see.

The strokes of my brush

Are interpreted based

On what the soul feels.

Yet miss to articulate

What exists in front of them.

Because the paint that clothes

The canvas holds a different

Meaning only the author

Knows.

Such details blend with

vivid colors hugging the pallet.

Nurturing a view of the horizon

In hues intimate to the one who

Orchestrated it.

How can you comprehend

what I’ve not understood

Or define in my garden

Of bloom & Odyssey.

My hour has come.

To determine the meaning

Of sacrifice when my addiction

Offer their service.

To deny myself

Of selfish satisfaction

Stealing serenity & sanity.

Staging as sovereign as if its

Some role in a grand scheme.

In my times of low

Guarding the thoughts

That breathe live

Is a necessity.

Because an idle mind

Is the devils Playground

They say.

Like a sandbox

Of trinkets dripping

In want are on display.

I'm Learning to observe

Myself in times of low,

And forgive myself

For how easy flesh succumb.

To understand patience is

Not a wish to be granted

But a daily action

Supported by the belief

"This too, shall past"

- Journey to Discernment 4

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leyllethecreator · 29 days

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Writing Tip #2: Sometimes you've just gotta be like Nike

The best cure for writers' block I've found is to keep writing even when you have no inspiration. Push through the garbage, and you'll often find that ideas start coming to you, but if you insist you're uninspired, you will be. This is part of the reason why it's so great to write to prompts. Game-fying the struggle gets you out of your head a bit.

Go for a walk and tell yourself you have to pick one random thing to write about. Open the dictionary, select a word off the page you opened to and try to do something with that. As Isaac Asimov said, sometimes doing something mindless like watching a movie helps.

Basically the more stimuli you surround yourself with, the more likely you are to find inspiration. You can generate that stimuli yourself just by yeeting words onto a page - you 100% can inspire yourself.

And remember that nobody ever said you have to keep the draft. If it's garbage, it's not like you suddenly destroyed your story idea for good - it's been poisoned by one bad draft and is dying of failure-itis.

I'm creating new prompts every week you can check out every Saturday if you're looking for inspo. I also highly suggest watching a show you like or a new show, listening to music or "the dictionary method" if you're ever feeling stumped.

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nickysfacts · 11 months

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All racism has ever done is slow down the creation of new beauty💜

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ausetkmt · 11 months

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#James Baldwin #African American Poet #Black Writers

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