The Brownest Eye

I Plead Insanity

[akindplace]

Allow people to like you, to enjoy your company, to want to be your friend. Allow them to compliment you, allow others to think you're cool and funny even if you think you're not. It is not up to you to tell others how to feel, and remember that people might see the positive things in you and qualities that you have been failing to see while being too self-critical. Allow yourself to be liked by other people, even when you don't see why they should. Don't self-isolate because you think you are not good enough for other people.

[dudes247365]

[rivailles]

Mena Massoud at El Gouna Film Festival.

[blueklectic]

If i see him in person it’s a wrap

[eyeblogaboutnothin]

[fyblackwomenart]

Claymore Turtle

[beautifulcurlz]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Happy December 28th!!!

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Harlem Ball photographed by Catherine McGann (1988).

[sheabutterclub]

Erykah Badu

[marxisforbros]

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

[beingpureatheart]

I think about this a lot.

[eyeblogaboutnothin]

[thebrownesteye]

Nikki Giovanni, “Nikki-Rosa“

Childhood remembrances are always a drag If you're Black You always remember things like living in Woodlawn With no inside toilet And if you become famous or something They never talk about how happy you were to have Your mother All to yourself and How good the water felt when you got your bath From one of those Big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in And somehow when you talk about home It never gets across how much you Understood their feelings As the whole family attended meetings about Hollydale And even though you remember Your biographers never understand Your father's pain as he sells his stock And another dream goes And though you're poor it isn't poverty that Concerns you And though they fought a lot It isn't your father's drinking that makes any difference But only that everybody is together and you And your sister have happy birthdays and very good Christmases And I really hope no white person ever has cause To write about me Because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll Probably talk about my hard childhood And never understand that All the while I was quite happy

[blond-shell]

Zoë Kravitz as Bonnie Carlson in Big Little Lies S02E02 “Tell Tale Hearts”

[thebrownesteye]

Who did her hair in Monterrey? qtna

[fyblackwomenart]

Tammy by Ifeoluwa Afolabi

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[chaiexp]

[braidsforblackgirls]

https://www.instagram.com/flammedepigalle 😍