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V I R T U E S 
20 May 2020

“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

KJV

S P I R I T 
20 May 2020

“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”

KJV

L I F E
25  April 2020

“Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

Twitter Gems

L O V E L Y
25 April 2020

“Find a lovely thing and respect it.”

R O O T E D
15  September 2019

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”

E X P E C T A T I O N S 
15  September 2019

“I am not the whisky you want

I am the water you need

Don't come here with expectations

And try to make a vacation of me.”

E N E R G Y
15  August 2019

“Where attention goes, energy flows.”

D E S T I N Y
15  August 2019

“Everything grows. It's destined to change.”

B E C O M I N G
15  July 2019

“Now I think it's one of the most useless questions an adult can ask as child - What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. AS if at some point you become something and that's the end.”

C H O O S E 
15  July 2019

“It's a new week, take a moment to arrive. By choosing to be present, you can one-up stress.”

R E S I S T A N C E
15 June 2019

“resistance is fine art.”

R E E K I N G
15 June 2019

“whether with a lover

or

none.

i reek of love.

i stink of love.”

C H A N G E 
15 May 2019

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”

L I V E 
15 May 2019

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” 

A D J U S T M E N T S
15 April 2019

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

F E A R S
15 April 2019

“write your fears.

that's what they told me.

so i picked that pen up again

& i traced my way over these

openclosedopen wounds

until the inky map led me right to

the very ones who started it.

then i took a deep breath

& conjured up a storm

all my own.”

W R I T I N G 
15 March 2019

“you must write. yourself. before you can write anything else.”

E X P L A I N A T I O N  
15 March 2019

“What is understood does not need to be explained.”

Frienship Chronicles

A P P R E C I A T I O N 
15 February 2019

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”

C R E A T I O N 
15 February 2019

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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

M E D I U M 
15 January 2019

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.”

D E S I G N 
15 January 2019

“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”

U N B E C O M E

15 December 2018

“Sometimes you have to unbecome what you were so you can become what you need to be.”

M I S T A K E S 
15 December 2018

“It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”

P A I N T I N G S 
15 November 2018

“Basquiat soul, you're painting love the best.”

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W O R L D L Y 
15 November 2018

“There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”

F L O W E R S 
15 October 2018

“give me a moment... i am adjusting the roses in my tongue.”

the rose farm

L I G H T H O U S E 
15 October 2018

“you are your own lighthouse.”

I N S I G H T 

15 September 2018

“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”

T H O U G H T S

15 September 2018

“Train your mind to see the good in everything.”

I N C O N V E N I E N C E D  

15 August 2018

“You have to be inconvenienced... to buy your future.”

T H A N K F U L

15 August 2018

“Sometimes God holds you back temporarily until the road is safe and clear to continue. Be thankful for the stall.”

F R E Q U E N C Y 

15 July 2018

“When you are evolving to your higher self, the road seems lonely. But you're simply shedding energies that no longer match the frequency of your destiny.”

H E A L I N G 

15 July 2018

“Healing begins where the wound was made.”

T H Y S E L F 

15 June 2018

"As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.”

I D E N T I T Y 

15 June 2018

"Identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past."

G O L D 

15 May 2018

"you are a private gold."

E N E R G Y

15 May 2018

"We must learn to focus on warm energy."

C H A N G E S 

15 April 2018

"A failure is not a loss. It's a gain. You learn. You change. You grow."

G A I N S

15 April 2018

"Remember, for everything you have lost, you have gained something else. Without the dark, you would never see the stars."

B E L I E V E 

15 March 2018

"You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen."

B A L A N C E

15 March 2018

"You're going to find your balance. Then you're going to lose it. Then you're going to find it again."

R E N E W A L

15 February 2018

"We must become different... Such an ancient habit, making ourselves new."

W I N E

15 February 2018

"It's never too late to be wise. See how your spirit has been fermenting."

S I M P L I C I T Y

15 January 2018

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

B E A U T I F U L 

15 January 2018

"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."

S T R E N G T H  

15 December 2017

"God didn't promise days without pain. Sun without rain. But He did promise strength for the day and light for the way."

B E C O M I N G      

15 December 2017

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"be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. — the becoming."

Nejma

B E I N G 

15 November 2017

"you were a dragon long before 
he came around and said 
you could fly. 

you will remain a dragon 
long after he's left."

H A P P I N E S S    

15 November 2017

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"Happiness is the mental and inner joy and satisfaction with oneself. Happiness is to know who you are, why you are, and what prescribed laws you must carry out as the said person of that ability."

The World

H E A L I N G 

15 October 2017

"You stop attracting certain people when you heal the parts of you that once needed them."

P E A C E    

15 October 2017

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"Peace is the absence of confusion and the universal greeting among the Gods and the Earths. Peace is the state of tranquility and restfulness."

The World

L I V E 

15 September 2017

"You make me want to live… Not survive; not exist. Live."

L O V E   

15 September 2017

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"Love is the elevation of understanding. God does not fall in love because he is love. We as a nation must learn to love ourselves before we love someone else."

The World

U N I V E R S E 

15 July 2017

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

S H E L T E R  

15 July 2017

"Shelter is the kingdom of the Gods. Gods’ kingdom protects his family from the devils of society, thus as a family they can deal with supreme civilization and righteousness. Gods’ kingdom must be strong and he must rule it justly and wisely."

The World

C A L A M I T Y 

15 May 2017

"Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can."

C L O T H I N G  

15 May 2017

"Clothing is the proper protection from a negative environment. The proper protection from the devils civilization is knowledge of self and the culture of Islam, and the proper protection from cold weather is a coat."

The World

C A N V A S  

15 April 2017

"This world is but canvas to our imaginations."

F O O D 

15 April 2017

"Food is the proper nourishment one needs to sustain to exist mentally and physically. The wrong food is Christianity mentally, and swine physically."

The World

B L A C K • G I R L • M A G I C 

15 March 2017

"If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive."

E Q U A L I T Y

15 March 2017

"Equality is to want for your brother and a-alike as you would want for yourself. Equality is to be equal in everything (knowledge, wisdom, and understanding) with your righteous brothers and sisters."

The World

R A C I S M

15 February 2017

"But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down."

New York Magazine

J U S T I C E   

15 February 2017

"Justice is what we the Black nation deserve and demand.  There is no justice for the Blackman here in America.  Justice is ones rewards or penalties for ones ways and actions. The Blackman has been severely penalized, and unfairly treated. We have received just a cold shoulder."

The World

V U L N E R A B I L I T Y 

15 December 2016

"I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest."

Strength in Vulnerability

F R E E D O M  

15 December 2016

"Freedom is what the Gods of the universe demand immediately. Freedom is the ability to choose what you want for yourself and your family without interference from the devil and his wicked civilization."

The World

C A P A C I T Y

20 September 2016

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

Minna, Nigeria

U N D E R S T A N D I N G 

20 September 2016

"Understanding is to see things as they clearly are and not as they appear to be. God must possess unlimited understanding to properly deal with the many problems of his present day, and world."

The World

H U M A N I T Y 

15 August 2016

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Atlanta, GA

W I S D O M 

15 August 2016

"Wisdom is the vehicle in which a wise man lets his knowledge known."

The World

K N O W L E D G E 

10 August 2016

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"Knowledge is the science of facts. Knowledge is to know why, and why is why. Knowledge was made to manifest in three parts; looking, listening, and observing."

The World

F O O D   F O R   T H O U G H T
10 August 2016

Again, as a means to continue to urge myself to write more and share not only my thoughts but those of others far more frequently, I decided to create a space within my blog-sphere where I share the one hobby that I am actively present in each and every day: collecting / archiving quotes. As I am usually at a loss for words, be them eloquent or not, I find it far easier to express myself using the words of others who have found what it is I am trying to say. Also, being that I am still on the journey to writing and understanding even my own words within the realm of this world and those around me, I find comfort in the fact that there have been many before me who have been able to figure out and sum up the questions and answers of what still puzzles me. So, this space will be for sharing the gems I've read, heard, and seen that have caught my eye and mind. Outside of my usual and longer blog posts, these mini snippets / quotes will just be shots of brain rum. Served neat. No chaser. Thus, and hopefully, mind altering.

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:: Post Rationalizing(s) 

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“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly ― they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” 
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World ―

Orlando, FL