My birthday weekend was amazing :)

No matter what weakness you think you may have, no matter what inadequacies or setbacks you’ve encountered, God wants to give you His divine strength. He wants to make up the difference and put you further ahead than you ever thought possible.
(via rest-thewearysoul)
I love you.
Love is a meeting of two souls, fully accepting the dark & the light within each other bound by the courage to grow through struggle into bliss.
— Unknown via Mastin Kipp (via lovemorefearless)
(via rest-thewearysoul)
Because when a man tells a Black woman that she looks mixed as a form of endearment, he’s insinuating that her beauty comes from the (allegedly) non-Black part of her. All they’re effectively saying is: You’re too beautiful to just be Black. Oh, but I am. I’m beautiful just like my beautiful Black mother, just like her mother and her mother’s mother. We’re generations of women born right here in the US of A, from North Carolina to Massachusetts by way of the motherland. Brown skin, nappy hair, cornbread and gravy gorgeous. We aren’t beautiful in spite of our Blackness, we are beautiful because of it. So don’t dare try to give the credit to anything else.
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Shayla Pierce, Why Saying I Look “Mixed” Isn’t A Compliment (via theraceproblem)
Or the shock when folks actually find your Black ass attractive and you’re so obviously not recently mixed.
(via witchsistah)
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