I’m really proud of myself this year. I can’t believe I started a nonprofit (@Innovoreach). I started putting this dream together so many years ago, but I didn’t think I could handle it.
God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called 🙌🏽
you need a dangerous amount of confidence to escape an ordinary life cos the person who becomes successful has to believe something that everyone else doubts.
Coming to understand that for me, words can permanently change how safe a relationship feels. I believe that there are lines that should never be crossed, even in the middle of an argument.
Date someone who is genuinely curious about you. Someone who wants to know the small things: your favorite song, the stories behind your scars, the way you take your coffee, the books that changed you, the jokes that make you laugh. Attraction notices you. Real interest tries to understand you.
The Gap Band, Lakeside, Evelyn Champagne King, Patrice Rushen, S.O.S Band, Con Funk Shun, Midnight Star, Shalamar, Fatback Band, Cameo, Rene & Angela, Yarbrough & Peoples, Slave, Mtume, & more all found a way to reinvest disco in such a niche, funky, & innovative way in the 80’s.
@muheediva01 This is a slippery slope. What if they’re not believed? Then they get booked. What will that do to the women who have actually been assaulted? They won’t speak up. Men are already treated with kid gloves. Book them more with actual sentences then circle back to this.
You should study what makes you defensive. The topic you avoid, the joke that irritates you, the question that feels insulting, the feedback you instantly reject. Defensiveness is usually the guard dog sitting in front of a weakness you have not trained yourself to face.
Please learn to recognize when you are self sabotaging or abandoning yourself, all in the name of loving a person who does not love you back, all in the name of putting in effort in a relationship where it is not reciprocated, learn to see the signs, learn to feel the weight, learn to hear the quiet voice inside you that knows something is wrong, because that voice is not your enemy, it is your protector, and it has been trying to get your attention for a long time.
You keep giving, keep hoping, keep bending over backward for someone who would not do the same for you, you keep making excuses for their distance, their inconsistency, their lack of effort, you keep telling yourself that if you just try a little harder, love a little louder, give a little more, they will finally see your worth, but they will not, because they are not blind, they are just not interested, and no amount of sacrifice on your part will make them choose you.
So learn to recognize when you are abandoning yourself. Know when to say, you know what, I am nobody's fool, and stop.
You read that homeless women are being raped and immediately blamed homeless men because you associate violence with poverty, whole time the primary perpetrators or rape of homeless women AND MEN are housed people (and cops) who lure them with promises of food, shelter and work.
i’m someone who believes my girl deserves the world. & when she’s hurting and it’s out of my control i hate ts. i be trying to solve any and every little inconvenience that comes her way. 🥺