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Aja Monet

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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 “examine your own convictions”  word. (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)

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stunning. Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in Carmen Jones (1954), photographed by Bob Willoughby.

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 ”Memory Sucks” by @BeauSia beau pulls my soul of its hiding place. always.grateful to call him, a friend.  please watch this. and share it.not just because he’s my friend, but because his words reached out to your feeling heart. i hope.  (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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Amina & Amiri Baraka “No. Don’t never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It’ll come. Like the rain fallin’ from the heaven, it’ll come. Just don’t never give up on love.” — Sonia Sanchez

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i’m not that deep, i promise. i just cant stop writing like this. its my only curse. the reason why my first friends were books. and authors, my first heroes. the reason why i feel home in bookstores. why if my house burned down, id probably die trying to save the books. save them.  because i couldnt bare to live alone. without them. 
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Hey aja, firstly you portray such beautiful words in your poetry that moves a loving soul. Thank you. I wanted to ask you, apart from love who or what inspires you to write?

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first, thank you. and then….spirits keep me grounded. they are in the praying eyes of every person i meet. i trust divinity. and every so often my experiences lead me to places, people, or things that compel me to create a language for whatever it may be i am feeling or recognizing in the patterns of the human process. my story is ordinarily unordinary, things…
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