When Destiny’s Child announced they were getting back together on Oprah
When Snoop Dogg asked the East coast about love for the West Coast
When Dave Chapelle shot a slavemaster on cable television.
when common called drake Canada Dry
When Diana Ross jiggled lil Kim tit …
To all you artists out there, who don’t wanna be on a record label where the executive producer’s…all up in the videos, all on the records, dancin’…then come to Death Row!
When ODB rolled up to the welfare office in a limousine
When Rick James told that white bitch from backstage who he was on TV
When YG showed up in a bulletproof vest and cut off pants
Whitney Houston trolling Diane Sawyer about her personal life for two solid hours “I ain’t telling you”
When “Bobby Bitch” dropped
Kanye saying George Bush doesn’t care about black people on live tv
When Jesse Williams got on the BET Awards and dragged every white person by their follicles and some black people too.
In 2016 Black women are now the most educated group in America, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. A higher percentage of black women — 9.7% to be exact — are enrolled in college than any other racial or gender group, including white men, white women, and Asian women.
Despite what you’ve read, your sadness is not beautiful. No one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your Bukowski, and want to save you.
Stop waiting
for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of Shakespeare,
for an end to your sadness in Keats.
He coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived.
Your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world.
Your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth.
Darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. Grab your sword, and don your own armor.
