I fear the body really does keep the score cause every year late summer I start getting all weird and sad and it takes me like a week of being like “what the hell is wrong with me?!” before my brain remembers it’s because something bad happened thirteen years ago.
The level of selflessness it requires to be a genuinely good parent is staggering. Your life stops belonging entirely to you. Your needs are no longer the most urgent ones in the room. You don't get to make decisions based solely on what you want or what makes you happy.
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
I remember there was a such thing as school clothes, play/outside clothes, church clothes, night clothes etc.
Now you bums are wearing whatever and teaching your kids it's anti black to essentially wash their ass before coming into public
That university was established by some of the greatest black people in history. It’s a privilege to walk those grounds given the sacrifices that were made. The LEAST you can do is not walk those grounds like you just got out of bed.
“You can wear a suit and still getting treated like shit by white people.”
I’m sorry but nobody said anything about white people lol. Dress well & be presentable simply because you’re in a learning environment. Whether you’re at a PWI or HBCU. It has zero to do with white people.
Someone can make a docuseries on just how poorly DC treats its residents east of the Anacostia River. Limited medical facilities, a shortage of healthy food options and grocery stores, and more. It really heartbreaking.
I take EVERYTHING as a sign from God in life. Any small inconvenience. Like maybe I didn't need to go to this place, maybe I don't need this person in my life, that job may not be for me, and maybe this is saving me from something only GOD can see. No loses forever lessons.
Yeah, I’ll definitely respect the elders that oppose genocide instead of the ones who participate in oppression and dehumanization. This is what moral clarity looks like.