there’s a point in your 30s when you realize hosting BBQs and dinner parties is the new club scene and high key better without the randoms, overpriced drinks, and terrible DJs still playing Dreams and Nightmares
Fruitvale Station had a small budget and Ryan Coogler was fresh outta film school Michael B Jordan was barely getting roles. Now they first time Oscar winners on their fifth film together legendary run
You figure out how to make money, then you realize you need to figure out how to make relationships work. Then you have to figure out how to eat right, your hobbies and interests, unlearning stuff… it never ends. There’s no final destination. But what I can say is a lot of the stuff I learned later in life could’ve been taught to me as a child so my children will learn it earlier.
Yup. And the leader in the middle is Robert F Williams. A Marine Corps veteran who changed the course of the civil rights movement and made an international impact beyond what even MLK Jr. did. But he’s erased from history because they don’t want us knowing that violence can work
For a man’s presence to naturally calm the nervous system of a deeply intuitive woman who can see right through all games, facades, and excuses— he has to have done an extensive amount of work on himself.
i think one of the healthiest things i've ever learned is that you should allow others to reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. Give people space to become who they are without assuming you know who they are just because you've been friends/family for years.
This Artist, Lex Marie, on TikTok made art criticizing “discipline” in Black households & when I tell you, it’s so powerful. She used a belt to beat one of the canvases for hrs & called it “Because I love you”. It made me think of The Scourged Back photograph. Just wow