You're in your car feeling good jammin hard to that song that just makes you lose all your cool, ignore the person next to you at the traffic light and commence to trying to do the stanky leg in a sitting position. Well I had a moment like that last night...my song of choice last night was M.J.'s "You rock my world" I felt so good. Another song that I just go bannanas over while i'm driving is Arrested Developement's "Everyday People." I am curious if I am the only one who does this. If you do it too I want to know what song you like to jam to.

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First of all I want to thank Lumayna for sharing the video clips. I agree with you sisters from what I could see the movie does not encourage natural beauty. Towards the end he makes a plea for Black women to stop putting the "kiddie perms" in their daughters hair. He says to let them make a decision when they are up in age. Well if the mothers are a reflection of the women in the movie the decision of these young women would be obvious. How you going to tell your daughter that she is beautiful and encourage her to wear her natural hair when you as her mother have a perm? It makes no sense. My daughter and I have sister locs and you could not pay my daughter to believe that she is not the ish. Sometimes, I think that I have created a monster because she has so much confidence and she loves her skin tone and her locs. Raven Simone openly admitted that she gets a perm to make others feel more "Relaxed". Living to please others is like dying. When I was a young and unaware of my natural beauty....I did the perm thing because I did not know better.

I am Hatshepsut(pronounced Hatchepsut)and I ruled as King during the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt(Africa). During my time it was not uncommon for women to have a high status in our society. However it was not all that common for a woman to rule as King. There were other Queens before me that ruled in their own name such as Khentkaues, Sobeknefru, etc. However, my reign lasted successfully about 22 years(the longest reign of any woman of Ancient Egypt)and brought a lot of prosperity and peace to Egypt(Africa). My name Hatshepsut means "foremost of noble ladies" and it is very befetting of me. Being that my father was King Thutmose I and my mother was Queen Ahmose, I was born royal. When my father Thutmose I died his son(Thutmose II, my husband to whom I was the Great Royal wife) became Pharoah. Thutmose II died shortly after his Kingship leaving Thumose III heir to the throne. However, he was too young to serve as King. So, I became Regent which simply meant that I acted on his behalf. I acted as regent for some time and then I made a very bold move. I declared myself King making me the 5th Pharoah of the 18th dynasty.

Okay so I get on the web and the first thing I see is this story about the "Lil Monkey" dolls. It made me shake my head and laugh because the powers that be have tried to reduce us down to animals for so long that this did not surprise me. The deep thing about it is europeans have a history for being uncivil, treacherous and barbaric...but we are animals? Some of us do act like animals because we have picked up some bad habits from this society. A wise man once said, "just because someone calls you an ass does not mean you will grow a tail and long ears" and because I find that to be true I don't let stuff like this upset me. However, I am glad that we raised a little cain. Besides it's not what others think of us it's what we think of ourselves. I hear that the doll has been pulled from shelves because of the people that raised hell, but sometimes I don't understand my people. We are quick to point out racism and disrespect when it comes from a person of another color, but we have deaf ears when it comes from our own. The same way we raised hell about this doll we should raise hell about stations like B.E.T.

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I was inspired to make this shirt because I know this is still an issue that we are dealing with...we are all sisters

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A friend of mine texted me the other day, "call me later..I've got breaking news"
My response was, "if it don't involve a man then it is breaking news"
Well needless to say she did not call me or text me again. You see I am at a point in my life where I feel dissatisfied with the way we women let our source of happiness come from a man. Don't get me wrong I love me a real Black man, but I think it is something terribly wrong when that seems to be our only source of happiness. Another friend texted me, "if I were on the side of the road stranded with my drawers on the top of my head...I won't call you" She says you never answer the phone. I told her not to take it personal I'm just taking some time for me and I realized that I waste a lot of time with other women always talking about men. So, she she says ok call me when you get a chance...Kevin's girlfriend has been calling me. Normally I am all on the drama, but I am evolving. I would love to talk these sisters about other things going on in their life...somebody talk to me.

The body is temporary, but the soul eternal. One sista said that energy transforms and I agree. Let's pray that Michael transitions out of this realm and that his soul is free and not bound by any negative forces that keeps souls bound and tormented. Michael was angelic and if our journey is judged by the way we live then why be sad he is in a good place. I say to you Michael because you are free and uninhibited , "soar brother soar!" Be happy and come back some time and mess with all the people that messed with you while you were here with us. May peace be forever with you.

Like Chrisette Michelle I had an epiphany today. I started thinking about self love . I am talking beyond the superficial and physical things because let's face it if it was all about going to the spa, getting a facial, pedicure and manicure or having "me time", sistah's we would have self love on lock. I'm not saying these things are not important, but it's more to it and I'm just trying to get overstanding. So, as I contemplated on LOVE I said to myself, "self, self love is knowing I am LOVE and that I am loved ,but break it down some more for me. Self said, "okay you are LOVE because THE ALL is LOVE and because you are a part of THE ALL you are LOVE. Okay so I was satisfied because I realize that I am a part of the Divine which is love. My uncertainty comes from the second question. What is the proof that I am loved? So, again I went inward because THE MOST HIGH dwells there and I said. "self, how do I know that I am loved? She said that the gift of will is one example. She said no other creation has it, I'm like okay that is a blessing, but ,it can also be a curse when we choose to live unrighteously.

I am just launching a new website and I invite all positive women of color with love of self and those working on self love to check out my T-shirts. They are created because I feel that we as Black women are more than our body parts and the negative images that we seldon see. We are spirits living as Black women. The purpose of SoulSeed Tees is to make shirts that remind us of our greatness and and to help us to love our beautiful black selves better. I will have new designs coming soon. So, I hope that you will stop by and find something that you like. Peace, love and abundance.

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Greetings all my Nubian sistrens,

As much as I love my peoples I know that we can sometimes procrastinate and ignore such things as preparing for natural disasters. So, I just wanted to take time and put this on your mind . Single sisters it is paramount that we prepare because there is no one in our households but us and to my sisters that are in relationships or married you may need to be the one to get the ball rolling. Whether your city is known for flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, fires or earthquakes we should always be prepared. I live in Florida and hurricane season is upon us and my little survival kit is almost complete(see I told you we procrastinate). Each time I go to the store I pick up something for my disaster kit(candles, flashlights, N.O.A.A. weather radio, batteries, water, extra clothing, blankets, non perishable foods, toiletries). Some stores have a camping section and this is a good place to pick up things such as sternos and collapsible water containers. Don't be the ones in Walmart at the last minute fighting over water because you did not prepare. Let's go!