In The Afternoon Heat With The Sun Scorching My Back, I Walk Barefoot Along The City Adorned In Rags

It’s been like a year since I’ve seen this post and I still love it

What is there to do in this lonely room My passion keeps me going, yet I’m still sad I guess all artists are a little mad.

“Roomz” by me.

don’t forget on pride month

"Beautiful Blur" Difficult minds such as yours and mine could never come close, Could never align A fatalistic chapter Of a love never beginning An unfinished painting With explosive colors that fades out Into a beautiful blur

-Lady Sira

Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks

Marpessa Dawn in Black Orpheus (1959) dir. Marcel Camus

I just want to let y’all know that a lot of cishet men are going to end up very lonely when they’re old because of the way they treated women and their significant others.

Books for Black Women of All Ages to Read

Marita Golden Don’t Play in the Sun

Coffee will make you black- April sinclair

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Flygirl, by Sherri L. Smith

Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Middle school)

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, by Meg Cabot

The Mighty Miss Malone, by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna And Still Peace Did Not Come A Memoir of Reconciliation

Alaya Dawn Johnson The Summer Place

Alaya Dawn Johnson Love is the Drug

Alice Walker Now is the Time to Open Your Heart

Alice Walker In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Alice Walker Meridian

Alice Walker Anything We Love Can be Saved

Alice Walker By the Light of My Father’s Smile

Angela Y Davis Blues Legacies & Black Feminism

Anne Moody Coming of age in Misssissi

Anne Schraff The One for Me

Antoinette Tuff Prepared for a Purpose

Antoinette Tuff Prepared For a Purpose

April Sinclair Coffee Will Make You Black

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel

Babygirl Daniels 16 ½ on the Block A Babygirl Drama Vol. 2

Barbara Smith Home Girls

Bebe Moore Campbell Sweet Summer Growing Up With and Without My Dad

Bebe Moore Campbell Brothers and Sisters

Bell Hooks Bone Black Memories of Girlhood

Belle Antoinette Remains

Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is?

Brandon Montclare Halloween Eve

Brian K. Vaughn Saga Volume One

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All be Feminists

Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees

Chris Cleave Little Bee

Cleste O. Norfleet Download Drama

Coe Booth Kendra

Danielle L. McGuire At the Dark End of the Street

Dasha Kelly Almost Crimson

Dorothy Height Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir of Dorothy Height

Dorthy Spruill Redford Somerset Homecoming

Edwidge Danticat Claire of the Sea Light

Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Freddie Mae Baxter The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life

Gloria Naylor Mama Day

Grace F. Edwards No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery

Issa Rae The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Iyanla Vanzant Faith in the Valley

Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place

Janet Jackson True You

Janet Mock Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Jaquelin Thomas Divine Match-up

Jeremy Zimmerman Kensei

Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones

Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau

Justina Ireland Promise of Shadows

Karen Gibson Roc she & i Poems

Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds

Karen Tanabe The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe Gilded Years

Kathryn Talalay Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler

Kia Dupree Silenced

Kimberla Lawson Roby Casting The First Stone

Kymberla Lawson Roby Casting the First Stone

Kyoko M. The Black Parade

Laura Resau The Queen of Water

Linda Joyce The Second Room on The Right

Lola Jaye Being Lara: A Novel

Lorene Cary The Price of a Child

Lynn Austin A Light to My Path

Marian Wright Edelman Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors