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Your glo up should never be publicized.

People prey on progress. It's the way of the world. The will start planting seeds of doubt in your mind, making you question whether or not you're making the right choice. They will try to derail you so that you stay at their level.

That is why it is SO important to keep something as delicate as your own personal glo up private. Guard it like a newborn baby. Protect your process at all costs. Shock the world with your discipline, consistency, and self-love.

Be so firmly rooted in your belief of yourself that no one's words will be able to shake you. That's how you’ll know if your glo up has actually worked.

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“We need to remember and to teach our children that solitude can be a much to be desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone, at times it is positively to be wished for. It is in the interludes between being in company that we talk to ourselves. In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.”

— Maya Angelou Even the Stars Look Lonesome (via yourpersonalcheerleader)

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Timeless Cool: Nina Simone, 1965

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“Bless the daughters who sat, Carrying the trauma of mothers. Who sat asking for more love, And not getting any, Carrying themselves into Morning. Bless the daughters who were given the role of Motherhood before they became women. Bless the daughters who raised themselves…”

— Ijeoma

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She Would Be King: A Novel (2018)

Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them.

Moore’s intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. “If she was not a woman,” the wind says of Gbessa, “she would be king.” In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States. She Would Be King is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author.

by Wayétu Moore

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Wayétu Moore is the founder of One Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. She teaches at the City University of New York’s John Jay College and lives in Brooklyn.

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Sojourner Truth and Her Love for Her Son

In July of 1826 Sojourner Truth simply walked away from slavery, with her youngest child. She didn’t run…she didn’t go very far…she simply decided she wasn’t going to be a slave anymore.

Some years earlier the New York state legislature passed two laws, gradually emancipating slaves. The laws essentially provided that all adult slaves would be set free on July 4, 1827 and any child, born after a certain date, to an enslaved mother, would have to work for the mother’s owner until the age of 21—at which time the child would also be free.

Sojourner’s owner had promised her he would set her free one year before the 1827 date. When she approached him about his promise, he changed his mind; saying that she had hurt her hand (some time earlier) and did not give him the proper amount of work. So, Sojourner decided to leave…after she spun about 100 pounds of wool, she got up at dawn and walked away with her youngest child.

She did not go very far and was able to secure her freedom, which allowed her to stay in the area, however, sometime before she left, her owner sold off her youngest son, Peter, to a man named Dr. Gedney.

Gedney took Peter to New York City, with the intention of going to England, but Peter was only five years old and Gedney found him too young too suit his needs. He therefore sold Peter to his brother, Solomon Gedney, who turned around and sold Peter to his brother-in-law, in Alabama.

When Sojourner found out that her son had been sold to Alabama, she knew exactly what that meant! If Peter was not in the state of New York, he would never be emancipated at the age of twenty-one…he would be forever enslaved.

Sojourner set out to get him back, the only way she could, through the law.

Determination and God’s Promise

Sojourner initially got help from a group of Quakers who instructed her to go down to the courthouse and to present her case to the grand jury. She prayed to God and asked that God help her. Armed with that faith, she set out for the courthouse.

She had never been inside a courthouse before and did not know what a grand jury really was. Once she found the right room, she presented her case in such a convincing manner that one of the jurors asked her to step into a room. There she was asked to restate her case and to swear that the child was actually hers. She was given a document to take to the local constable, in order to serve Solomon Gedney.

Solomon Gedney then secured legal counsel and was advised to go get Peter or face possible jail time. Gedney left for Alabama and months passed before he returned with Peter.

When he did return, he claimed Peter as his enslaved property and Sojourner was told that she would have to wait another several months before the matter could be addressed in court.

Sojourner did not believe she should have to wait. She believed God would answer her prayers completely and she did not want Peter to be in the custody of Gedney for another several months. Who knows what Gedney might do to him?

Her lawyer told her that she should be thankful for all they had been able to do—it was remarkable that her son was back in New York and that she should wait patiently for the next court session.

Sojourner was not satisfied…she walked around town, wondering what she could do, when a stranger who knew of her case, approached her. He told her to go see a lawyer, named Demain, who would surely help her, if she insisted.

Demain, the lawyer, began to argue that the child must be able to be claimed because his sale, out of the state of New York, was illegal under the emancipation laws and that Solomon Gedney should be fined and prosecuted.

Sojourner sat in the corner, while all of this was going on, barely breathing…thinking that if she could only get her son…she didn’t care about anything else.

The judge finally declared that her son be given to her “having no other master, no other controller, no other conductor, but his mother…”

A Mother’s Love

…When Sojourner and the other people there were finally able to calm Peter down, she looked at him and from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, he had scars all over his body. His back was whelped and looked "like her fingers, as she laid them side by side.”

“How did you bear this?” she exclaimed. Peter said the scars were from the man in Alabama who had kicked, beaten, and whipped him. He said that there was also a woman, named Phillis there, who had a newborn baby. She was beaten to the point where both blood and milk ran down her body. Sojourner was horrified…she couldn’t believe her son was with such an abusive man. She was able to secure her son’s freedom and, in doing so, she was among the first African-American women, in the United States, to win a lawsuit.