Blackness Is Self Acceptance

For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend

by Pat Parker

The first thing you do is to forget that i’m Black.

Second, you must never forget that i’m Black.

You should be able to dig Aretha,

but don’t play her every time i come over.

And if you decide to play Beethoven – don’t tell me

his life story. They made us take music appreciation too.

Eat soul food if you like it,

but don’t expect me to locate your restaurants

or cook it for you.

And if some Black person insults you,

mugs you, rapes your sister, rapes you,

rips your house, or is just being an ass –

please, do not apologize to me

for wanting to do them bodily harm.

It makes me wonder if you’re foolish.

And even if you really believe Blacks are better lovers than

whites – don’t tell me. I start thinking of charging stud fees.

In other words – if you really want to be my friend – don’t

make a labor of it. I’m lazy.

Remember. 🤨🤨🖤🖤

For the entire month of April aka Black Women’s Poetry and Prose month. I’m sharing the work of women who have healed my heart, nurtured my mind and fed my spirit with their words. I have to admit that even as a voracious reader it took me a minute to understand and feel the purpose and passion of poetry. Often I found it confusing and underwhelming. I wanted characters, story, plot, but then I dug deeper and read more and more, I learned to treasure it for the art that it is, poetry is a moment in time, it’s a feeling, a mood, it’s deep, it’s playful, it’s memoir and commentary, it’s so many things at once, it’s patois, creole, slang, it’s protest, its prayer, it’s soul, it is NOT a luxury, there are no rules, it’s an excellent vehicle of expressing a singular idea, a method for causing controversy and tectonic shifts, it’s slick talking goodness and Black women reign supreme.

More to come…….

The Truth Will set you Free

If the truth is God

and God is the word

Then the word is truth

And truth will set you free

Then you must know the word to know the truth

You must know the word to know God

And you must know God to know the truth

And if God is Love

And Love is God

And God is truth

Then Love is truth

And Love will Set you free

To Know God is to know Love

And to know Love is to know the truth

That the truth is Love is God

And God, as Love, will Free you, with Love.

I made this account when I came out to myself.

I choose my name.

I found post that matched my style.

I’ve grown more and more into accepting myself

loving myself.

I haven’t had this app on my phone for a maybe a year now. But I think it’s worth revisiting.

I want to share what I experience

And craft my thoughts into tangible resources and references

So thanks Tumblr for helping me find myself.

Happy 3rd Birthday to me

garçon de fleur

Mod: Dakota

Shot by Jon Okafo

Reblogging once again. I didn’t hear myself the first time. I was sitting in the back. I’m working my way to the front of the room so I can get the message loud and clear ✌🏾

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Talks at Google: Alice Walker

Only you can love you like you

Only you know what you need to hear

Sure it would be nice if someone else held your hand

If someone held you tight

If you didn’t have to cry from feeling alone

Because you weren’t

But you can be there for you

When you cry

Pick your head up

You can talk yourself up

Tell yourself to get up

You can do it

You can

By yourself

Love yourself like no one else

Love yourself more then a basic person could

Love yourself

Take care of yourself

Love yourself

Take care of yourself

Listen to yourself

Trust yourself

Listen to yourself

Trust yourself

Listen to yourself

Trust yourself

Listen when yourself says pick up this book

Pick up this paint brush

Pick up your head

Lift your voice

Focus

Be quiet

Stretch

Breathe

Breathe

Breathe

Breathe

It’s okay

Breathe

Breathe

Breathe

Youre here

Youre meant to be here

You have a purpose to fulfill

You will be rewarded

It’s okay

Just breathe

Just listen

This moment will pass

You can find peace in this moment

You can be at peace

This moment will pass

You will be at peace

Breathe

Breathe

Breathe

Listen yourself

Only you can love you like you

Only you know what you need

Breathe

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

I will care for you

I will make sure you’re okay

I will make sure nothing happens to you

I love you

We gotta push for the betterment of humanity. We have to push for humans to be treated as humans.

UPDATES ON AMAZON PRIME STRIKE AND PRIME DAY!

The basics:

Thousands of workers in Spain, Germany and the US have been striking leading up to and on Prime Day, Amazon’s biggest sale, calling for better working conditions, pay and health benefits.

Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers (96% of the workers at the San Fernando warehouse) in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company’s biggest sales day of the year

Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the sale in six warehouses.

 Amazon’s website and mobile app crashed for about 45 minutes, due to a computer glitch – the most widespread to date, costing Amazon millions of dollars

In the US, advocacy groups are planning several consumer rallies outside Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, Confederate and white nationalist merchandise through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers. 

Amazon is still expected to profit more this year than last year. Let’s hope we can keep spreading the word about the boycott and prove them wrong. Spain’s strike is supposed to last through the 18th, so keep boycotting