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"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. "- Audre Lorde. A gentleWOman and a scholar. Documenting my state of transition all the significant nothings... things I may or may not care about... words of wisdom... pictures speaking volumes... dope music I love... thoughts, writings, questions etc... All things ME (24, Near future Howard U PhD student, current Columbia University Counseling Psychology Grad Student, Binghamton University Graduate, Queens native ummmmmm anything else... ask?) ohh yeahh.. I don't own the rights to any photos... they're all borrowed unless stated otherwise... Follow @NaturalNikNak

vintagenoire:

(harlem) renaissance men.

vintagenoire:

the children.

vintagenoire:

muhammad ali and sam cooke.

vintagenoire:

we’ll have another.

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vintagenoire:

tuskegee airmen colonel benjamin o. davis, commanding officer, and edward c. gleed, group operations officer. ramitelli, italy, march 1945.

photography credit: toni frissell

vintagenoire:

(harlem) renaissance men.

deviatesinc:

Langston Hughes and Dorothy West traveling to Russia, 1933

judywald:

Cornell Capa Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, New York, 1939

Russell Williams and Connie Hill doing the Lindy Hop at the Savoy Ballroom about 1939.

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booksquared:

Leonard Freed

112crooks:

Comes Love

blackelitephotography:

“Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped”
-Jack Hayford