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Phylicia Rashad’s Letter to 21-Year Old Self:


Dear Phylicia,

Romantic involvement distracts you and can blind you to what’s really in front of you. And what really is in front of you? You are. You don’t even know yourself yet. You think you know and you want to assert that you do, now that you’re a certain age, but you don’t. What’s in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. There are long-term repercussions to what you’re doing now. Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It’s imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways—ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

With high hopes for you,
Phylicia

Phylicia Rashard
2 days ago
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Amazing hair

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2 days ago

Let Go….

Im trying to learn to let go and let God. And just breathe. Lately i’ve been quite stressed out in the brain, but i have learned to smile through the pain. I’ve been having issues everywhere. Im really not sure if I want to go back to school in the fall. Im starting to feel like college is not where I need to be and I can make my dreams come true without it. I’ve been wrestling with how to make my dreams a reality. I had to move back in with my parents and family because I can’t afford my own place. Its not enough room here to function. My mom is having surgery Wednesday. Im just all stressed out. And to top it off, i have had some terrible luck in the significant other area. Im just really unimpressed with the way guys approach me now a days, and they dont work hard to keep you at all. I’ve concluded that Im messing with the wrong type of guys. I’m some what of an old school love story type of girl. I’d like to be romanced and what not, but I digress. I just pray that God leads me to a path that will show me how to achieve my dreams. I also pray that everything falls into place and that Gods blesses me abundantly. Life is a crazy journey. Lord knows im trying to keep my head on straight. They say life is what you make it so i’ll make it good. 

Live.Learn.Laugh.Love

#GodBless

—Rae’

1 week ago
2Pac: And since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman and our game from a woman, I wonder why we take from our women. Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies that make the babies. And since a man can't make one, he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.
Jay-Z: Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porsches, MTV stopped by to film our fortresses. We forget the unfortunate. Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time. So in reality I didn't give a dime, or a damn. I just put my monies in the hands of the same people that left my people stranded. Nothin' but a bandit, left them folks abandoned. Damn, that money that we gave was just a band-aid, can't say we better off than we was before.
Kanye West: Is it genocide? 'Cause I can still hear his momma cry, know the family traumatized. Shots left holes in his face, 'bout piranha-size. The old pastor closed the cold casket, and said the church ain’t got enough room for all the tombs. It’s a war going on outside we ain’t safe from, I feel the pain in my city wherever I go. 314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago.
Mos Def: When the average minimum wage is $5.15, you best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream. The white unemployment rate, is nearly more than triple for black so frontliners got they gun in your back. Bubblin crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty and end up in the global jail economy. Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence. Budget cutbacks but increased police presence. And even if you get out of prison still livin join the other five million under state supervision. This is business, no faces just lines and statistics from your phone, your zip code, to S-S-I digits. The system break man child and women into figures. Two columns for who is, and who ain't niggaz. Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings but you push too hard, even numbers got limits. Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: the million other straws underneath it - it's all mathematics
Lupe Fiasco: I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit. Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets. How much money does it take to really make a full clip. 9/11 building 7 did they really pull it. And a bunch of other cover ups. Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts. If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut. The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the up and up. Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust. You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough. If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks”. Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such. And that aint Jersey Shore, homie thats the news. And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth. Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist. Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit. Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either. I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful. And I believe in the people.
1 week ago
Love love love Solange :)

Love love love Solange :)

3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago
tomorrow-without-her: slimnoshady: reblog & let all your Detroit followers know. come out & have fun :) All tumblr users, check this out

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slimnoshady:

reblog & let all your Detroit followers know. come out & have fun :)

All tumblr users, check this out

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3 weeks ago
alexandraelle: Be careful when you choose to believe negative things about others, especially when it’s coming from miserable people. The older and more grounded I get I realize no matter how much good you do the enemy and his workers will try and shake your spirit. Don’t be swayed. People will constantly try to ruin your name, your love and your character if they are living in unhappiness. Surround yourself with grace, joy and positivity. Do not be discouraged by anyone. The people who used to know you don’t matter! We all change and sometimes it’s for the better. Misery loves company, try your best not to entertain it. Your journey is for you to walk in with purpose and not everyone is meant to travel behind you in your path to success and happiness. Keep in mind that what God has for you is for you. When He removes certain people from your space it’s indeed for a reason. Let Him give you what you deserve, have a open heart and wish love on those who hate/doubt/slander you. He’s watching. The opinion that really matters lays before the gates of heaven. #inspiration

alexandraelle:

Be careful when you choose to believe negative things about others, especially when it’s coming from miserable people. The older and more grounded I get I realize no matter how much good you do the enemy and his workers will try and shake your spirit. Don’t be swayed. People will constantly try to ruin your name, your love and your character if they are living in unhappiness. Surround yourself with grace, joy and positivity. Do not be discouraged by anyone. The people who used to know you don’t matter! We all change and sometimes it’s for the better. Misery loves company, try your best not to entertain it. Your journey is for you to walk in with purpose and not everyone is meant to travel behind you in your path to success and happiness. Keep in mind that what God has for you is for you. When He removes certain people from your space it’s indeed for a reason. Let Him give you what you deserve, have a open heart and wish love on those who hate/doubt/slander you. He’s watching. The opinion that really matters lays before the gates of heaven. #inspiration

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Bless your ears one time…. #MOET

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