“Dark Skinned And I’m Stuck Up (yup)”  

This was beautiful

40 years of hip hop culture in 2 minutes.

Accept.

Love. Accept. Repeat.

“Souls are funny things. They stay constant even when the outside changes, or when the heart makes mistakes. Souls don’t really care about good or bad, right or wrong — they’re just true.”

— Miranda July

Diversity

I grew up as one of the only black kids in my bubble

There were kids of color but not in my honor classes

Not in my neighborhood

My mom didn’t live near my family she didn’t like them that much

So we were separated

What I know is general black history knowledge

What I knew is what tv taught me

And then my mom didn’t even let me watch spike lee or roots till I was in high school.

What I crave is dates stories histories and facts

In the push for diverse material and works to spark conversations , faculty aren’t prepared to lead conversations.

It’s like we just want to start discussions but no one knows what to say.

We want to include people in conversations but the story you want me to present I don’t have

It’s hard to speak up for the black experience and be that voice when I don’t feel secure about my own blackness.

I too want to talk about different cultures

I too want to be educated

You can’t look to me to educate you when I am looking to you to educate me.

This is why representation matters

Because if you don’t know

And I don’t know

Then who does?

Who can educate us

Who can spark these conversations

Who will teach the unspoken history

Who will rewrite the textbooks

Who can give us the language to begin to explore what we truly wanted to talk about.

Identity

The other

When we read Lynn nottage I can’t tell you what black people think about the work

I can tell you what I think

But please tell me what Lynn was thinking

Tell me about her experiences and how it came through in her story

I can relate

Maybe

And if not then glad we all shared a conversation over this single perspective

🖤✌🏾

https://www.instagram.com/thepersonalquotes/

Women are human , and humans do whatever their curiosity, imagination, and hearts lead them to do.

Not the words and rules created by other humans.

Create

Art has definitely been a therapy for me. Whenever no one is there, or no one understands, throw it down in your art. Get it out. Sing, dance, paint, write. Do whatever you gotta do to let it out. Every frustration, tear, and smile. Create work that will uplift you. Create work that only you can understand , something that only you can enjoy in the specialist of ways; As a creator.

I love you, and I can’t wait to see what you create

Super similar.

It’s interesting to see, how I see me

And how someone else sees me

I don’t think these two point of views have ever been so close

eclipse // 2.5 hours

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