lock tf in. get your ass in mutual aid groups. lend your time to meal services. care for people in the way a vote simply never could. advocate for community gardens and libraries. stop betraying community. you don’t get a sticker or gold star. lock in.

— oprah winfrey’s legends ball, celebrating black women in art, entertainment & civil rights (2005). a thread. 👸🏾💐 📸 by: kwaku alston

Solange was onto something when she said “I can’t be a singular expression of myself. There are too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many colors, too many flavors for me to be one thing.”

My grandmother, who is older than Israel, and I survived the war.

I feel so high. I love you D’Angelo. I love you Erykah. I love you The Roots. I love you Bette Midler. I love you Moonchild. I love you Stevie. I love you Andre 3000. I love you B. I love you Miss Jilly from Philly. Blessing to erybody seeing this jawn. I love my time. 😍😍😍😍

my therapist lowkey doesn’t help solve any of my issues but i like her vibe and she laughs at my jokes so im going to continue to pay her

stop bothering me or I will inform you of a behavioral pattern that is noticeable to other people but I can tell you are not yet aware of

i been broke out of the shackles of perfect positive fake ass spirituality i will verbally drag you to hell then go right back to my spot in heaven don’t play with me

Some of u are so scrary bruv don’t care about art don’t care about ur friends don’t care about your locals don’t care about ur communities don’t care about don’t care about ai don’t care about discrimination ,anything but getting income and doomscrolling memes like so scary man .

me being a money magnet

meeting one truly alive person can reset your sense of what life is meant to be misery is contagious but so is joy

do not bring anybody to my house with you unannounced

becoming a part of someone's life is actually a pretty big deal. i wish we were more careful

Me

RIP, Assata Shakur. She passed away yesterday in Havana, Cuba. She died free! The U.S. government, after decades of pursuit, never got the satisfaction of putting her in a cage. They wanted her bound, broken, and paraded as an example, but instead, she slipped their grip and

This is what you gave up when you chose minimalism. You gave up drama. You gave up spirit. You gave up whimsy. And you plastered all of it flat with beige

Assata Shakur joins the ancestors a free woman. She did not die bound by the carceral system and she did not pass away living in a land that never respected or accepted her. Assata taught us that liberation can not be bargained for, it must be taken. Rest Free, Assata.

You can always tell when people haven’t integrated their shadow bc they’re convinced they would never lie, harm anyone, etc. Absolutely all of you, all of humanity, is capable of immense evil. If you deny it in yourself you only give it space to flourish.

haven’t had a sip in years cause it’s that easy and it works 🤏🏾