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“Happiness will come to you when you let go of the hurt that is holding you back.”
— Unknown
“I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”
— Unknown
Repeat to yourself daily :
- I possess the qualities needed to be extremely successful.
- Creativity flows through me and leads me to amazing ideas.
- My thoughts are filled with positivity.
- My life is filled with prosperity and abundance.
How to be a
𝒮𝑜𝒻𝓉 𝐿𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝐵𝒶𝑒
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☀️ Start every morning with gratitude. Light a candle, open the blinds and let in the natural sunshine.
•Great credit (720+)
•Good money management
•High confidence
•Positive attitude
•Doesn’t entertain things and people that disturb her peace or drain her energy
You have streams of income that pay for every bill:
👉🏽A STR property pays the mortgage
👉🏽Digital products pay the car note + insurance
👉🏽Affiliate income pays for groceries
👉🏽Mortgage note pays the phone + utilities
Outsource where possible:
•personal assistant
•laundry service
•housekeeping
•food delivery services
Invest in systems & automations for your business.
Be selfish with your energy 🧖🏽♀️
•Invest in high quality clothing, perfume and skincare
•Develop a workout routine and eating clean
Vacay as much as you can 🏝🍸✈️
If you’re not at the point to do this things just make it a point to get there.
𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭, 𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥.
Credit: Taneisha Fletcher
“When someone shows you their true colors, don’t try to paint a different picture.”
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“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”
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♬ "Do you know where you're going to?"♬ Here are 70 of the most iconic black films, through the year 2000.
this list ignores the last 15 years of movies, but that makes sense. if we’re going to talk about “classics”, we have to give the movies time to become classics.
legend ( italicized - seen it, bold- have a copy of it too)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Shaft (1971)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Super Fly (1972)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Mack (1973)
Coffy (1973)
Black Caesar (1973)
Cleopatra Jones (1974)
Foxy Brown (1974)
Claudine (1974)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Dolemite (1975)
Cooley High (1975)
Mahogany (1975)
Sparkle (1976)
Car Wash (1976)
The Wiz (1978)
Breakin’ (1984)
Beat Street (1984)
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Purple Rain (1984)
Krush Groove (1985)
The Color Purple (1985)
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Raw (1987)
School Daze (1988)
Coming to America (1988)
Lean On Me (1989)
Glory (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Mo’ Better Blues (1989)
House Party (1990)
The Five Heartbeats (1991)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Strictly Business (1991)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
New Jack City (1991)
White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
Bebe’s Kids (1992) (used to have this on VHS lol)
Boomerang (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
Juice (1992)
Class Act (1992)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)
CB4 (1993)
Posse (1993)
Poetic Justice (1993)
Menace II Society (1993)
Jason’s Lyric (1994)
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
Tales From the Hood (1995)
Bad Boys (1995)
Friday (1995)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Higher Learning (1995)
Set It Off (1996)
Hav Plenty (1998)
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Love Jones (1997)
Soul Food (1997)
Belly (1998)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
The Best Man (1999)
The Wood (1999)
Love & Basketball (2000)
of course she couldn’t get ALL of the movies on here… but some notable misses :
The Temptations (1998)
Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
Dead Presidents (1995)
Polly (1989)
A Hero Ain’t Nothing But A Sandwich (1978)
The Marva Collins Story (1981)
Sister Act II (1993)
Hoodlum (1997)
Women of Brewster Place (1989)
Little Richard (2000)
Bamboozled (2000)
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Preacher’s Wife (1996)
The Bodyguard (1992)
Mo Money (1992) (ok maybe not so notable, but yeah)
Blankman (1994)
The 6th Man (1997)
The Green Pastures (1936) Nothing But A Man (1964) The Blues Accordin’ To Lightnin’ Hopkins (1968) Wattstax (1973) Sister Sister (filmed 1979 / released 1982) Black Belt Jones (1974) Killer Of Sheep (1978) Take A Hard Ride (1975) Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold (1975) The Meteor Man (1993) Up, Up, And Away! {2000} Save The Children (1973) It’s Your Thing (1970) Soul To Soul (1971) Buck And The Preacher (1971) Harlem Cultural Festival (1969) Anna Lucasta (1958) Paris Blues (1961) Come Back, Africa (1959) Black Girl (1966) Black Girl (1972) Jazz On A Summer’s Day (1959) A Man Called Adam (1966) Pioneers of African-American Cinema (various years) For Love Of Ivy (1968) John Henry And The Inky-Poo (1946) Paul Robeson: Portraits Of The Artist (various years) The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) Conrack (1974) Brother John (1971) Aaron Loves Angela (1975) Cindy (1978) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997) Disorderlies (1987) The Duke Is Tops (1938) The Gospel According To Al Green (1984) The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977) M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994) Chico & Rita (2010) Don’t Play Us Cheap (1972) Man And Boy (1971) Black Orpheus (1959) Color Adjustment (1992) Move: Confrontation In Philadelphia (1980) Blacula (1972) Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Vampire In Brooklyn (1995) Abar, The First Black Superman (1977) Pipe Dreams (1976) A Warm December (1973) Big Time (1977) Bush Mama (1979) Uptight! (1968) The Last Dragon (1985) Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012) New Orleans (1947) Melinda (1972) Black Eye (1974) Nationtime (1972) Watermelon Man (1970) Disco Godfather (1979) Cotton Comes To Harlem (1970) Come Back Charleston Blue (1972) Change Of Mind (1969) Amazing Grace (1974) [Moms Mabley] Amazing Grace (filmed 1972 / released 2018) [Aretha Franklin] Cool Breeze (1972) Get Christie Love! (1974) Five On The Black Hand Side (1973) Ballad In Blue (1965) St. Louis Blues (1929) St. Louis Blues (1958) Porgy And Bess (1959) I, A Negro (1957) Space Is The Place (1974) The Cry Of Jazz (1959) One In A Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978) Ruby Bridges (1998) Ganja & Hess (1973) Norman… Is That You? (1976) Wilma (1977) Run For The Dream: The Gail Devers Story (1996) The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) Which Way Is Up? (1977) Adiós Amigo (1975) Thomasine & Bushrod (1974) One Potato, Two Potato (1964) The Crimson Skull (1922) The Kid With The Broken Halo (1982) The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977) Hickey & Boggs (1972) Bird (1988) Betty - They Say I’m Different (2017) The Quiet One (1948) The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) The Last Of The Blue Devils (1979) They Die By Dawn (2013) Amos ‘n’ Andy: Anatomy Of A Controversy (1983) Mr. SOUL! (2018) The Godmother Of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (2011) Sound?? (1966) Charley Pride: I’m Just Me (2019) The Greatest (1977) Buck White (1969) Moonwalker (1988) The Sheriff (1971) As Summers Die (1986) The Ditchdigger’s Daughters (1997) Memphis Soul (1979) On Being Black (1969) PBS / WGBH movie series - 10 episodes Say Amen, Somebody (1982) Daughters Of The Dust (1991) A Rage In Harlem (1991) No Maps On My Taps (1979) Tap (1989) Boron Sarret (1963) To All My Friends On Shore (1972) Greased Lightning (1977) Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll (1987) The Man (1972) Putney Swope (1969) The Inkwell (1994) Under The Cherry Moon (1986) Wild Style (1982) Playing With Fire (1985) The Case Of The Three Sided Dream (2014) The Brother From Another Planet (1984) Coonskin (1974) Mississippi Masala (1991) Scott Joplin (1977) Ragtime (1981) Listen Up: The Lives Of Quincy Jones (1990)
“I dont know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come.”
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“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
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Note to self.
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