body & soul

Feb 24

aual:

“No vietnamese ever called me nigger” Mohammed Ali’s justification for refusing to fight in Vietnam, a phrase that fuelled the push for equality for all regardless of any and all differences. 
Collection of photos taken during the black power movement that i thought were particularly awesome. Not only were the KKK a group of arrogant, low IQ sporting complacent fools who probably all had erectile difficulty, but ‘dem haters had NO style. as it were.
Black power fought for equality and an end to a ideological repression. And no one can deny they look awesome. 
(On of those serious notes, I think the ultimate symbol here is the photo before last, where tommie smith and john carlos give the black salute during the american national anthem when receiving gold and bronze medals, a photo is saw during a counter cultures lecture).

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Feb 24

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Feb 24

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rachelstewartjewelry:

Creative Silence Photography
Black in black and white.
Feb 24

rachelstewartjewelry:

Creative Silence Photography

Black in black and white.

Feb 24

afreemindedoutkast:

Sensual Love Making:

Its cool how warm we make passionate love, making your body shiver and shake while we grind to a steady rhythm, feeling the sweet nectar of your wet pussy oozing as I take time with slow & deep penetration, So deep inside that I tap the depths of your soul, so deep that you can’t moan, you just gasp and pant pleasurably with every thrust;

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Feb 23

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Feb 23

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blackloveisabeautifulthing:

Nikisha+Carl of UrbanBushBabes.com wedding album
Feb 16

blackloveisabeautifulthing:

Nikisha+Carl of UrbanBushBabes.com wedding album

"Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are."

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Nikki Gionvanni

File this under facts on facts.

This makes me think of a beautiful post that I mentioned in one of my Read This Week features; a post by @HarrietThugman about Black people of other cultural backgrounds who diminish Black American culture, and shouldn’t….for it is so rich.

My cultural heritage involves a mixture of my love for some things specific to Jamaican culture (because of my background, being raised in a Jamaican family by Jamaican parents, but being raised in America and actually born in America) and some things specific to being an American Black (I love how Nikki says Black is the NOUN and American is the adjective), and some things that seems to connect Black people despite where in the diaspora we are.

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Feb 4
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