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Teda in 2018!

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[Drawing of a white cat saying “Just because you’re usually the one who cheers people up doesn’t mean you have to be happy and cheerful all the time. It’s okay for you to have bad days too. It’s okay for you to struggle too. And it’s okay for you to talk about it and reach out for help too. You deserve kindness and support too.” in a pink speech bubble against a green background.]

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The art of becoming // @evrogina

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For someone addicted to series, the goodbyes transcended into my reality and it’s easier for me now.

“I’ve always been enchanted by the endings of things. Series finales and sunsets. Last paragraphs and final encores. I think for the way they remind us that letting go of something you love needn’t always be heartbreaking - that there is still beauty to be found in even the saddest farewell.”

— Beau Taplin • E n d i n g s 

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“This was the process by which two lives were disentangled, eventually the dread and discomfort would fade and be replaced by unbroken indifference, I would see him in the street by chance, and it would be like seeing an old photograph of yourself: you recognize the image but are unable to remember quite what it was to be that person.”

— Katie Kitamura, A Separation

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My soul shook ❤️

“Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”

— Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish (via anditslove)

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Making colorful memories

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Nigerians can’t relate!

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Www.podur.co.uk

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Oceans!

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this is your poem

I’ve spent months trying to figure out how to get you down on paper

I’ve tilted bottles and paid tabs I’ve stared strained slept and gambled

I’ve met the sun with empty glassy eyes on the edge of a bed of someone I barely know

but you’ve always been on my mind

a puzzle

something washed up on the shore

and on the tip of my tongue

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Beautiful

In some black communities there’s still a stigma that kinky or coarse hair is “bad”, which couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s no such thing as good or bad when describing someone’s natural hair texture or type. To those struggling to love and accept their natural hair because of societal pressures, remember this - straight, curly, kinky or wavy, it doesn’t make a difference. Embrace your hair the way it is, no matter what society tells you. All hair is good hair. It’s your Crown.

Gerrel Saunders

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Boooo!😍

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I will stay gentle no matter what I endure, I am so much more.

Tyler Knott Gregson  (via wordsnquotes)

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