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“I remember I went through a period where I didn’t embrace my ‘chocolatiness.’ I don’t know if that’s a word, but I didn’t embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that”.

―Happy 42nd Birthday Kelendria Trene Rowland Born. February 11, 1981

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when lizzo said “self love is survival” and when hannah gadsby said “do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? it’s not humility. it’s humiliation” and when mitski said “i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that’s awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation”

gnascher

when audre lorde said “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”

darkalleysunflower

when Jenny Slate tweeted, “As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain&more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love”

novva

Somebody said sumn about today being black fae day? 👀✨

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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.

Toni Morrison

#tonimorrison #blackgirlmagic

this internet bullying is really weird.

bitter people make me sad :(