When I was in my early 20’s, I was home at my parent’s house during varsity holidays. One morning, I was sleeping in my backroom when my pops knocked on my window and told me to come into the house. When I got to the lounge, I found my niece sitting on the couch with...
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Manual Success …
The allure of playing boss [bawse as the young ones say] is as appealing as a glossy hip-hop music video. They tweet about it all the time, “work hard and play hard” only we never quite see the fruits of this perceived hard work do we? All we are afforded are images of drunken stupors...
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Idea of Love …
Love is a curious thing so I will not attempt to define or describe it in a universal way. Instead, I’ll share my experience of it with you using this statement as the starting point: Men dont have a clue of what love is (an an emotion) but women have a warped sense of love....
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A Black Girl Walks Into An Art Gallery …
Art fills my belly with appreciation, something many black kids never get to say in their lifetime because of Art being portrayed as juvenile crayon ‘pretty pictures’ that amuse idle minds. Slowly, the Arts or any form of artistic subject is being pushed out of school curriculums as a newborn baby entering this world during...
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Wine and Pie
I I knew the kind of woman I wanted to love me when I used to see my grandmother get ready for church. She was a Catholic you see. Black skirt, polished shoes, purple sleeves and acres of hope in her eyes. She used to put on her head wrap as if she was going...
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The Dichotomy of Being …
I am what you could call a classic over achiever with control issues. Meaning that I generally have to succeed at everything that I attempt to do, and further more I like to have things done my way. So what happens to a 32 year old over achiever, with control issues who feels that they...
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Do it.
Do it. Just do it (hello, Nike!). Just bloody do it. Do it now, don’t do it tomorrow, do it now, right now, do not wait for everything to fall in place, just do it now. Do not wait for the perfect moment, just do it now, do it! do it! do it! Do it...
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Count to one hundred and let go
Let go of the you from long ago. Let go of this Let go of that Let go of what might Let go of what could’ve Let go of if only Let go of the fear Let go of control Let go of your chained heart Let go of the nerves Let go of...
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2016 Young Women Queens of Advertising
Never before have the young females of advertising been appreciated in this manner. We felt it was both imperative and important that they get appreciated and exposed to both the industry and world at large. Amacreatives came up with the idea to gather some of the ladies in a short time at one venue to...
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The Dying Screams Of The Moon
Let me start by saying that very often, when you go watch a play, you are very likely to see some familiar faces, faces that you have seen on tv. Yet, what you see on tv is only but a faint glimmer of the brilliant light of those actor’s or actresses’s talent when they peal...