@djfanniemae
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Catch me outside…
Manifesting…
I want black women to know we’re all deserving of love, peace, opportunity, stability, respect, joy and abundance. I want us to know that there’s always enough. I want more black women to have an abundance mindset. A growth mindset. A wealth mindset. I want us to be on a path of continuous self-improvement— always getting better. I want us to continue loving and supporting each other. I want us to focus on creating better for ourselves and those around us. I want us to think higher and bigger.
My body lies to tell the truth,
each gesture disguised as stillness, each over-
wrought posed happening toward aftermath.
My past is strapless, hook-less, and eye-less.
I freelance, unlacing the vintage syntax
of seduction. My patron sated, I compose
myself—painted, perfect, patient as paper,
falling open like a book to my best parts.
Angela Shaw, closing lines to “Pornography" in The Beginning of the Fields (Tupelo Press, 2009)





