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Facebook Poem

This once was going to be A Facebook statusLike the word bank of words I anticipate to useWords I come across while reading academically and occasionally for leisure There is a few words I choose to never include in my everyday vernacularSee these words people think are so spectacular as to revolutionize falling revitalizing these lifeless words however […]

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Perennials, Part VI

Black girl magic And the mystical magical negro They sound relateddon’t they? When you dig more deeply though, you realize that Black girls labeled magic are recognized for the way they marry Intellect, flexibility and accomplishment.  The magical negro is viewed skeptically for the way they display these same things assumed to be fixed when the evidence shows flexible, knowledgeable when learning is constantly being soughtand satisfied as though accomplishment Only comes in singles.  Hugs to all […]

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