Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela We've featured his words here before and I am almost certain we'll use them again in the future. Nelson Mandela is beloved. This week he is inspiring us to hope. We know that given the current state of the union, hope isn't overflowing. We …
We have to love ourselves. I know that this is something that I forget all of the time. I often feel like I am not worthy of love, that respect is as much as I can ask for or demand. But as people always say, how can you love someone else if you don't love …
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by RISKING, by giving, by losing - Anais Nin I have contemplated these words a lot over the years. At various places in my life, when I'm stuck and asking myself what I'm living for, they pop into my mind. They remind me that even when …
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1000 Years of Solitude This quote has stayed with me through quite a few decades of my life. It has obliged …
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul, than the way it treats its children - Nelson Mandela I have six children. Six whole entire beings to love, cherish, and honor. Being a mom all these years, I have grown to think of myself as not just a mother to my own kids …
Power is NOT brute force and money Power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors gave you. Power is in the earth. It is your relationship to the earth. - Winona LaDuke I know we so often hear money is power and we so often see how this …
Author and poet Julia Alvarez said, "Each of us will have to make choices that allow ourselves to be larger versions of ourselves." A life lived out loud is a life self examined and thoroughly unpacked. What does the larger version of yourself look like? What kind of choices do we make that make us …
Brown Girls Out Loud 