Temaka

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  kemetically-ankhtified:

  word.

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  dynamicafrica:

  Photo series: Ladies and their pipes

  Women shown are from: Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Lesotho, Benin and Rwanda

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  i found god in myself
  and i loved her
  i loved her fiercely

  Ntozake Shange (via monamade)
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  Ego Tripping

  I was born in the congo
  I walked to the fertile crescent and built
  the sphinx
  I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
  that only glows every one hundred years falls
  into the center giving divine perfect light
  I am bad

  I sat on the throne
  drinking nectar with allah
  I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
  to cool my thirst
  My oldest daughter is nefertiti
  the tears from my birth pains
  created the nile
  I am a beautiful woman

  I gazed on the forest and burned
  out the sahara desert
  with a packet of goat’s meat
  and a change of clothes
  I crossed it in two hours
  I am a gazelle so swift
  so swift you can’t catch me

  For a birthday present when he was three
  I gave my son hannibal an elephant
  He gave me rome for mother’s day
  My strength flows ever on

  My son noah built new/ark and
  I stood proudly at the helm
  as we sailed on a soft summer day
  I turned myself into myself and was
  jesus
  men intone my loving name
  All praises All praises
  I am the one who would save

  I sowed diamonds in my back yard
  My bowels deliver uranium
  the filings from my fingernails are
  semi-precious jewels
  On a trip north
  I caught a cold and blew
  My nose giving oil to the arab world
  I am so hip even my errors are correct
  I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
  the earth as I went
  The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
  across three continents

  I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
  I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

  I mean…I…can fly
  like a bird in the sky…

  Nikki Giovanni (via monamade)
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  jaleesabartley:

  Craft. 

  Like no other. 

  Jaleea Bartley, 2009 

  Ghana, West Africa 

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  Mende girls in a cloth draped bower at the completion of Sande schooling, unknown photographer.

  (Source: weirdfriends)

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“Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely”
― Ntozake Shange

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