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[fyblackwomenart]

Retrain Your Mind by Eunice Akintayo 

[ruinedchildhood-deactivated3138]

[theybkreigns]

[sweetripp1]

[9710144]

Aaliyah at the “ MTV Video Music Award “ 9 September 1999

[90skid-com]

Can't believe I'm seeing this now

[laelucaxbrasi]

Papa ✨🫶🏾

[merchandisej]

[biglibrat]

𝔩𝔦𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔱

[slw94-deactivated20260213]

Jazz can lift you up in the darkest of days

[porterdavis]

Can anyone confirm? Pretty amazing coincidences if accurate.

[dyskomike-deactivated20250901]

"Author Octavia E. Butler used "Make America Great Again" as the presidential campaign slogan for the dictator Andrew Steele Jarret in her 1998 dystopian novel, Parable of the Talents."

“Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

[sleepynegress]

Read the book or listen to the audiobook. YES She predicted Fires in LA and a conservative sociopath who uses the phrase Make America Great Again. But the books are actually hopeful. The protagonist is a Black woman who prepares her own system to get through the bad times and starts a movement. She also predicted violence against the other, LGBTQ, people of color, and some white families too. She predicted religious bigots. She predicted coastline issues from climate change, which we are seeing and a collapse of America.

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Octavia E. Butler studied and researched all the time with her writing. She was a deep thinker and shared those concerns even before the Parable series was written. When you read her private writings (all of her papers are at The Huntington Library), her mind was already understanding the trajectory even before she sold a book. Her being a Black woman who lived through white racist bullshit all her life prepared her to know that white/patriarchal/capitalist/anti-Black/religious/american terrorism is threaded through this culture of violence and oppression for generations. America is anti-human, anti-progressive, and this trickles down to the sciences that white racists now disavow as they aim to create chaos yet again.

Black people have been knowing this, especially Black women, so the ideas in "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" (and perhaps more in 'Parable of the Trickster" had she lived with better health in order to write the third book) are not new to us. The irony is, non-Black people are heeding the warnings now that shit affects them, too. The legacy of Black American history was already a dystopian, SF/horror nightmare for centuries. Octavia wasn't a Nostradamus, because white terrorist history is cyclical. All she had to do was look outside her window in Altadena, CA and write what she saw. But that's science fiction to non-Black people. Everyday life for us.

Thank God she did give us glimmers of hope in her work because that's how Black people always got over. Non-Black people never listen to us anyway, so good luck to them for the next 4 years. My people always stay ready for the fuckery. We expect it.

[laelucaxbrasi]

She sure tf did.

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[theofficiallorddgc]

[artificia1ange1-deactivated2021]

do you ever have those random moments when you just realize how much you love something? whether it’s listening to your fav song or going back to a hobby you loved as a kid or when you get coffee and for some reason it’s just perfect that day and you’re reminded why you order that exact coffee everyday

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[free-my-mindd]

You cannot have an honest relationship with anyone who cannot be honest with themselves.