
“Relationships are so much healthier when the goal is to experience life together and not to try to make the person into who you want them to be or to make them do what you want them to do.”—
Photo Set: (1) Fixing the Headpeice I, c.2018; (2) Explanation, c.2018; (3) Queen, c.2018; (4) Thankless I, c.2018; (5) What’s on the Menu, c.2018; (6) Mother and Daughter; (7) Taking Orders, c.2018; (8) Nine to Five II, c.2018; (9) Engaged in Conversation, c.2018; and (10) Laughter, c.2018
Amanda Gorman (above) - poet, leads today’s blessing of beauties in black and white.
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“…With every breath from my bronze, pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.”
- Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
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“I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal / I cannot be comprehended except by my permission”
- Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping
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Start over as many times as needed. Don’t stay in situations and environments that do not support your full potential. Rebuild rather than settle.
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“She was transparent, heartbreaking. I would be afraid to be so vulnerable. I’d spent the last three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so I wouldn’t drip with blood every time I brushed up against something. She was naked, she peeled herself daily.”— Janet Fitch, from White Oleander (via violentwavesofemotion)
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