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Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective work and responsibility

To build and maintain your community together. To work together to help one another within your community. #Kwanzaa #KnowledgeIsPower

Everyone was born beautiful, some people just let the world turn them into something ugly.

Strength also looks like

• letting go of what no longer serves you
• breaking to rebuild—better
• transcending negativity
• vibrating higher daily
• transparency
• alone self-care time
• positive intentions
• smiling and inner-joy
• trusting the process

Kujichagulia: Self-Determination
To be responsible for ourselves. To create your own destiny. #Kwanzaa #KnowledgeIsPower 💜✨

Umoja: Unity. To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. #Kwanzaa #SevenPrincipals 💜✨

Let this be the last year you tolerate unsupportive friends, family and fake love!

Gay males fail to realize just bc we’re both gay doesn’t mean we HAVE to be involved romantically or sexually! I’m all for platonic friends too!

Sending prayers to those who are still misplaced by Milton. I know the holidays may add additional stress.

Sending you ample amounts of love and strength. Keep your head up or your crown will fall 💜✨

🗣 How they treat you is how they feel about you.

Read it again. Study it and grow from it 🌻✨

Love bombing is dangerous
Leave me tf alone

I have to break things down into small tasks and not look at the full goal. I can mentally tackle small tasks to accomplish a giant goal.

Now you see how I feel. Thinking of rice “crispy treats” being fried rice and marshmallows lol

Brace yourself

Excuse my Florida public education. But, I just seen a video of how rice crispies are made. We have been eating fried rice for breakfast?! 😂 let me process this aloud PLEASE.

i dont lie these days. shit dont be worth it.
1) who tf are YOU, for ME to lie to.
2) im grown. whats gon happen?

Nobody wants to hear this but sometimes it's your fault and sometimes you're the problem 😶

If you’re a sol de janeiro girl. The infamous bum bum cream is on sale 😊

Being an empath is both physically and emotionally draining.

Having sweet neighbors really make holidays less stressful. My neighbor brought me a homemade sweet potato pie. I was so thankful for it. Holidays are the same since my mom passed 4 years ago 🥺🥹

7 things that block your happiness :

• self hatred & self blame

• not letting go of the past

• not forgiving yourself

• not cherishing who you are

• needing other to validate you

• letting other ppl define who you are

• trying to be PERFECT to please everyone

STOP shrinking your personality for people who aren’t comfortable enough in their own skin to be themselves. they see you being you and wish they could do the same and well, jealousy takes over.

This “we listen we don’t judge” challenge is chaotic. Not judging it’s just a lot to process 😂🥴

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it black & white 🖤🤍🩶#blacksky

I pray for everyone fighting those silent battles. 🙏🏽 know that you are loved and someone cares you matter 💋✨

self-love taught me that I could pour into myself just as much as I do others. self-love taught me that empathy, compassion, kindness, and showing up must start with me. self-love taught me that i do not have to lack in order to provide. StepIntoYourPower

When you stop playing bout you, they stop playing with you.. 🤏🏾

Advice I would give my younger self:

Don’t be afraid to try new things and step outside your comfort zone.

I can tell I’m losing weight. My face has slimmed down 🤞🏽

It’s not funny it’s petty. My coworker was walking while trying to out whip cream on a piece of pie. This man put the biggest glob of butter on his pie. I didn’t say a word 🤞🏽😂