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Black aesthetic: Flowers🌼🌺🌸 (I do not claim ownership of any of the above photos.)

Black and Blessed

Black excellence is not achieved when your standards are less then excellent.

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Michelle Obama meets her deadlines

Serena Williams doesn’t come late to practice. Nor does she come unprepared.

Madam CJ Walker didn’t make her million by letting her dreams stay dreams.

Oprah didn’t wait for things to be handed to her. she created and fulfilled opportunities by her own means.

We are not excellent simply because our skin reflects gold.

We are excellent because we work for it.

Because we are blessed and highly favored.

God doesn’t give to those who don’t work.

God does not give to those who do not work.

Ask and you shall receive , seek and ye shall find, knock and the door will opened unto you.

If you don’t ask you won’t receive

Pray for everything and receive double that.

Seek and you will find.

If you walk around clueless but do not search you can’t find the treasures that are hidden away only for you.

Everyone may be looking for gold but it’s only though God that you will find it.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you.

If the door of opportunity presents its self to you and you do not present yourself to it. You’re going to remain in the same spot outside of a closed door.

The door is not waiting for you to knock.

You have to get up and knock on that door before someone else does.

You have to go find that door, to knock.

You have to ask for the door to even be a door before you can go find it and knock on it.

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To be black and blessed.

To put God first.

To work for your blessings.

To know that your skin color does not define you.

The art of life

My purpose is bigger then my feelings

My art will live longer then me

What I create is important

What I do is important

My existence

My experience

All reflect themselves

In my art

In my words

In my smile

In my walk

My presence

My life reflects through me

Through my pores

Through my finger tips

It has lasting implications

Whatever I leave here

Someone else may one day find

If it’s my kids

My friends

Or a stranger

My something

Will hold value

In another’s hands

Eyes

Ears

Heart

And mind

My life matters

Because it effects others

Your life matters

because it effects others

Life is valuable

Life is not lived alone

You are never truly alone

You are constantly surrounded by the presence of other

In the clothes you wear

To the streets you walk across

You move

You breathe

The same matter

That someone else once did

You stand because someone made it so

You have a path to travel because it was paved for you

The footsteps you leave will guide the next person

The steps you leave will let someone know you were there

We matter

Our futures matter

We are futures

Just as we will be past

Hasan Minhaj testifies before Congress on the student loan crisis

I am a non binary black woman

I am a Black Femme

I am a spirit

I am a reflection of my creator

Gender performance is an expression

How we display our gender is based on our understanding of who we are.

How we perform our expression of self with the vessel were given is up to us.

I am spirit and spirit is not gendered

Man is.

Gender is a man made construct.

So if I am spirit like my creator, my reflection and expression of my spirit is based in what?

A choice

Who I was taught to be was a black femme.

How I was conditioned to perform and how I intuitively express

Is as a black femme

Who I reflect is who I was made in the image of

Generations of creators passing their image

Their expressions

Their reactions

Their performances

To me

The reflections of the range and depth of black femme, will forever continue to influence the shape of the world I be in.

It’s this lens that morphs my understanding of myself and my selfs expression.

With the understanding and encouragement

To continue to push and morph the lens

Break it if needed

And thus continuing to expand and experiment

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And lastly

If gender is a construct anyway and language can be mailable. then why not find the right words to best express for the present and future understandings of self. Facts can be temporary as the present state of a matter or idea are applicable in the present. But as time moves forward, the present does too. And previous facts only remain facts in context of their historical stand point.

Express for the present

Change your expression with your understanding.

If you’d like .

WE ARE THE REAL ART .

“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation of the little things, my vivid inner life, my keen awareness to others pain and my passion for it all.”

— (via confusingmisery)

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(via thejlamonde)

You are heard

You are loved

You are not alone

Your blackness is valid

You are black enough

You are love

You are incredible

Your strength is recognized

Just know someone right now is telling someone else how dope you are.

Black tumblr group hug

I love you

please know that you are important

please be careful out there

take your time in mourning

you’re allowed to be angry and to be sad

we love you and you matter

your life matters