INHALE My soul is disturbed EXHALE because it’s still intact. #blackliturgies Cole Arthur Riley

I have a poetry collection out June 18th (Juneteenth Eve) about ACTUALLY being a Black man. You can support it instead of his trash here: simonandschuster.com/books/We-Alive…

36 years later, Julia Sugarbaker is still right.

Omg amazing can you stop funding genocide please?

Doctors leave you for dead while you wait anyway, you might as well record some hoochie content.

May 30th, 2020 Exactly four years ago today

Consumerism really don’t hit like it used to.

by the time you read this, EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ONCE, my major publishing debut, my very first essay collection, will be in bookstores nationwide. this book is for us. my book baby is here. barnesandnoble.com/w/everything-a…

Lots of bad news out there rn, but yesterday my sister helped open the first free grocery store in San Francisco for low income residents. It’s such a cool project and I’m so proud of her!

Respectfully loves, we don’t need another haircare line. We don’t need another skincare line. We don’t need a new kind of lip gloss. We don’t need the visuals. We need freedom.

My favorite thing about raising a pre-teen is hearing all the middle school tea. 🍿

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Baby, it is so much more thrilling to carry love in your heart. To appreciate what people are rather than what they are not. To assume the best in others even when they let us down. To sit with what’s uncomfortable and make peace with it.

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