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“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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“America owns more cameras, reaching further and more privately, than any other nation. American eyes roam everywhere.” June Jordan, Speech to NYC Librarians and Suffolk County Librarians, 1970

Cut ties with the beliefs that you’re not good enough so that your blessings can find you.

May this New Moon in Leo remind you that you are the source, you are the altar and your own sun. You were crowned by your elevated ancestors and the Divine. How can you possibly play small about that?

Passion Flower (Passiflora Incarnata) spotted on the evening trail walk

Leo New Moon today 🌙✨✨

Mercury retrograde is retrograding 😩

That evening walk really does wonders for my mental and emotional health

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My sister and I don’t have the same dad, but she’s giving me his lore. Me Listening:

Water sign woman 🌊

When people say Mama Day is one of their favorite “romances.” Me:

“Don’t they know we on the rise? That our time is now? Here we are in the last quarter and how we gonna pull it all together and claim the new age in our name?” Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton

In my own writing, it’s important for me to name that black women’s literary culture is not inherently anti-imperialist and simultaneously people ignore the anti-imperialism that is in Black women’s literature because who we believe can and should speak on empire.

Lucille Clifton

NEW SERIES starts Tuesday at 10 AM ET Presented by MAKC & Within Our Gates We'll critically analyze "classics" from the '80s from a Marxist & anti-imperialist perspective. Episode 1: First Blood, the first film in the Rambo series youtube.com/live/vyUYCc_Ct…

VERY excited about this!

i hope you know you’re worthy of your own love. you deserve it most.

A few goodies from the bookstore