Imaniii

[arielism-quotes]

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

African verb (via arielism-quotes)

[thesunatmidnight2]

If African consciousness only manifest in your mind but doesn’t end up in your hair, your clothes, your names, your diet, your ethics, your culture—then it has failed to work.

Alik Shahadah (via thesunatmidnight2)

[wisdomofancestors-blog]

[globalriseofblackpeople]

[spi-ltmilk]

https://instagram.com/p/Bc_U_mUllD4/

[kushandwizdom]

Your solution is rarely someone else.

Yrsa Daley-Ward (via kushandwizdom)

[kushandwizdom]

We are in our own hands and sometimes that’s frightening.

YRSA DALEY-WARD

(via

kushandwizdom

)

[kushandwizdom]

My destiny is louder than my comfort.

Yrsa Daley-Ward (via kushandwizdom)

[kushandwizdom]

when you learn something wonderful about yourself and wonder what else you’ve been hiding

Yrsa Daley-Ward (via kushandwizdom)

[kushandwizdom]

Every day I pray for more honesty. In love, in art, in life.

YRSA DALEY-WARD

(via

kushandwizdom

)

[kushandwizdom]

and one day you wake up and simply decide, “no more.”

Yrsa Daley-Ward (via kushandwizdom)

[lifeinpoetry]

You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.

Yrsa Daley-Ward, from “poetry,” bone (via lifeinpoetry)

[setthechildrenfree]

The one who rules righteously, who rules in fear of God, is like the light of morning at sunrise, like a morning without clouds, like the gleaming of the sun on new grass after rain. 2Samuel 22: 31-33

Ras Tafari, Empress Menen

[felicesomuertos]

[historical-nonfiction]

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

(via

historical-nonfiction

)

[senaykenfe]

[theimperialcourt]

Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw of Ethiopia at their coronation, 1930