being with someone who constantly has you auditioning to be 'picked' by them will take the largest toll on your self esteem.

Let’s talk about it ! Spread this we need answers

This is really how I be feeling whenever I start liking somebody 😂

My mother has taught me that ‘love is showing up’, and I hold on to that lesson with all my strength.

Love reminds you that it’s there. It makes space, it makes time, it honors, it forgives, it respects, it corrects, it serves.

Love is an action word - it requires doing.

The chapters in Charlie Wilson’s career and the influence that has radiated from it is 🤯

i had a very eventful weekend 🫶🏾

Our perception is something. Thinking about someone I would have considered one of my best friends and realizing they may not consider me one of theirs and how others think we are closer than we are to me as well.

Atlanta should consider a public statue of Rico Wade. Maybe specifically in East Point, maybe even the airport. It's hard to overstate how much he impacted music/culture/ATL. Sure, we can + should do murals but Rico really was a changemaker for this city's global identity.

How you think my name is pronounced?! 👀

I mean if you know a better place to order chicken tikka masala, garlic naan, and a mango lassi, please let me know.

Walking, playing tennis, pilates, and spin sprinkled with a creative project here or there. It’s giving a woman of leisure.

Tapping back into all the things that brought little Maura joy. Been having so much fun taking tennis lessons!

The fact that Pilates was rebranded into a workout for healthy/wealthy yt women is...

Joseph Pilates created Pilates in a prison for sick prisoners. AND it was his understudy, Kathy Stanford Grant (a black woman) that refined it. She was an acclaimed choreographer.

I love prom season. The kids always look so cute. But this?! So classic I can’t even. Just flawless.

When I’m running late to my hair appt panicking and the stylist text me and say she running late too

She hive foreal. No crumbs.

I think it’s time we stop begging other mags to hire Black photogs, and start appreciating how ESSENCE has been killing it WITH Young, Black photographers.

Adrienne Raquel
Andre Wagner
AB+DM Studio
Shaniqwa Jarvis
Erik Carter
Micaiah Carter
etc.

OH THIS IS SO ICONIC LMFAOOO😭😭😭

He ain’t fresh?!