“English is a wonderful mercantile language. You can get a lot of trade done with English. But you would find it very difficult to validate the psychic and spiritual existence of your life.” Toni Cade Bambara

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Black scene kids ‹𝟹

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all i'll say is as *early* as late october, 2023, artist friends were telling me about losing exhibits at museums, losing gallery representation, losing opportunities for grants and fellowships—sometimes for saying "free palestine," sometimes for just a watermelon emoji.

It’s utterly absurd to have to live in a world where this is reality

So much love to Academy of American Poets and Willie Perdomo for publishing this poem about Aretha and Detroit and grief❤️

Blue Lips,

I spent 80+ hours on this , please like and repost if you fw it 🫶🏾✨

you can def be a ho and sexually liberated w/out being predatory and gross.

the way my jaw dropped😭

all this technology, all these ways to communicate, and people have just… ceased actually communicating lmao. We on our phones all the time, and yet the skill, the rigor, the heart to say what you feel is being lost

He’s gonna throw something on the grill for y’all

I can’t help but think of Essex Hemphill.

Jill Scott:

“They calling me the intellect amongst the pussy rap. I’m still popping pussy, them my sisters. So I can't agree with that.” CLOCK IT!! & I love how you don’t allow these misogynoiristic ass men try to separate you from other Black women via dichotomies rooted in misogynoir &

365/365