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Glory.

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Eight visionary, compassionate, and reconciliatory New Year's messages:

Nelson Mandela: "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela

Mairead Maguire: “We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us. We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination”

Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Dalai Lama: "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - The Dalai Lama

Pope Francis: "…let us enable the power of God’s love to transform our lives; and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish." - Pope Francis

Arandhati Roy: (We are) “…trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture… in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves... It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it…. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I hear her breathing.”

Ghassan Abu Sittah: “There is no lonelier place in this universe than around the bed of a wounded child who has no more family to look after them…"

Albert Einstein: “peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding. “

Happy New Year.

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Sunflowers by Radiant Shelly -  Lorintheory

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Is this why my love for you has travelled with me through so many phases of life?

A sign that I am whole no matter what?

A touchpoint reminding me I will always be THAT girl?

Moonchild pulling the tides.

Shining Moon lighting the way?

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-BlkQueenCharlotte

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But what if surrendering to the timeline means we are apart?

Can I not hold out a piece of myself to walk the distant roads

Hoping to meet you again on the crossroads?

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“sometimes the alignment you’re hoping for happens when you finally surrender to the timeline you’re in, instead of trying to force where you think you’re meant to be into existence.”

— iambrillyant

#poetry #poem #micro poetry #spilled ink #love #iambrillyant #love notes to no one #blackwomanartist #black tumblr #spilled thoughts #black art #dreamling

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Mimi Moffie 

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“sometimes the emptiness you feel is just a call to dedicate more space to yourself. a gentle push from something higher to fill that vacancy with more of you, a request to make yourself the protagonist in your story instead of playing supporting roles, a sign to come back home.”

— iambrillyant

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Mimi Moffie

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This is me all dreamy for you

My full lips, my full hair, my cocoa skin

I take refuge in my own beauty.

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