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“I want to know you whether you’re afraid of sharks or spiders death or love. I want to know if it’s grammatical errors that drive you crazy or the people correcting them, if you’re more comfortable shaking sand out of your hair or snow, if you prefer coffee or tea, bars or board game nights. I want to know which of your friends you’ve cried in front of, if you’ve ever laughed chocolate milk out of your nose, or kissed someone you didn’t love. I want to know you the you beneath the layer of small talk always kept shined and smudgeless I’m just hoping one day you’ll invite me in.”

— Kristen Costello

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How Food Looks Before It’s Harvested.

Sesame Seeds

Cranberry

Pineapple

Peanut

Cashew

Pistachio

Brussel Sprouts

Cacao

Vanilla

Saffron

Kiwi

Pomegranate

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Hotep people bother me...

Now before you call me racist, I want to establish that I’m black myself. I’m of Cameroonian descent.

The hotep people really bother me. It seems like these people have this creepy fascination and insistence with Egypt, and sometimes things like Japan and Native American culture, being racially black. BUT, it doesn’t seem like they actually take the time to research or learn about ACTUAL black kingdoms and civilizations. I was discussing this topic with a friend of mine, who’s very Afrocentric, and I brought up the Mali Empire. He had no fucking idea what the Mali Empire even was. Like seriously?! How can you be so prideful of a civilization your ancestors most likely didn’t even come from, but have no clue or any knowledge about one of west Africa’s most prosperous and advanced civilizations? It’s just, there are SO many other actual black civilizations that accomplished so much that get swept under the rug because of stupid Eurocentric ideals.  

I mean come on! The Mali Empire?

Kingdom of Kush? Egyptians fucking black neighbors from Sudan?!

Ghana Empire?

Kingdom of Axum? Or really just most of the horn of Africa…

Songhai Empire?

Kili Kisiwani?

Kingdom of Zimbabwe?

Kingdom of Benin? Where all this magnificant art comes from?

And these are just civilizations I can name off the top of my head! Sub-saharan africa had HUNDREDS of unique historical kingdoms and cities alone. I want to see more blog posts about pilgrimages to Timbuktu. I want to see more art about the Swahili. I want to see more African Ameircans take back their ACTUAL culture that was wrongfully forced away from them by evil slave masters. Screw Egypt, I want to see more west and central African rep. 

End of rant.

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You need to think for yourself.

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How beautiful is Islam that you can make Dua for someone without them even knowing and in return the angels make Dua for you.

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If you really want something and people make you feel like you can’t have it, then give them a lesson.

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banger

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let your child be goofy and silly and make messes. teach them to clean up the messes without yelling at them. let your child be a child. not a mini adult who has to be perfect 24/7

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Entangled in musical Vibes and energy

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Take good care of your mental health.

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Twitter deleted her thread. Reblog to save it. #Love it!

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Fela Kuti- The Greatest Hits

Classic album !! Fela Kuti, father of afrobeat. AFROBEAT TO THE WORLD ! We love you Fela. 

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You know who deserves to receive over $50K in donations for bullying?

Dark skinned girls.

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Adorable! [x]

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Curvalicious.