mahogany be a black girl. she writes in rainbow
mahogany l. browne writes things. letters. poems. essays. stuff. good stuff. the stuff that makes a persons spine quake. she lives like she writes.
mahogany be a black girl. she writes in rainbow
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love: Somalia, 1980

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love: Somalia, 1980
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"No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”…No woman has ever written enough."
bell hooks

god bless the children created to his music… dear, otis redding

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god bless the children created to his music… dear, otis redding

love looks like this: harry belafonte

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love looks like this: harry belafonte

pam grier — stop playin…

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pam grier — stop playin…
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"Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do."
June Jordan

My Heroine: FLOTUS, Michelle Obama

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My Heroine: FLOTUS, Michelle Obama

love looks like this: CHE

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love looks like this: CHE
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. 
Maya Angelou 

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. Maya Angelou 
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. Maya Angelou 

here.my.heart.skips.

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here.my.heart.skips.

blues siren, ms billie holiday

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blues siren, ms billie holiday

truth

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truth
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A womanist:
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"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."
Alice Walker

woman. poet. love . love. love: June Jordan, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton,  Audre Lorde

At Phillis Wheatley Poetry Fest, 1979

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woman. poet. love . love. love: June Jordan, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton,  Audre Lorde At Phillis Wheatley Poetry Fest, 1979