Before anybody starts commenting about Azealia or Lauryn, let me say that I’ve known what self hate looks like long before Banks found bleach cream and bullied 13-year-old girls on Twitter and ...
#AndSoItGoes #Itsnotjustabeyoncesong – Hi. My name’s khoLi. And for years I’ve been a liar, a people pleaser, and an all-around victim of a neveerending #desire to be loved. I say this, bec...
During our last workout, I was explaining the ways in which #unconditionalove - the experience, understanding, and belief in it - often registers differently for #queerwomen because of the trauma...
Seeing my name and words in print never fails to brighten my day. Knowing that I got to work with @eastbayexpress’ @sara.baku (my favorite #editor … and it’s hard for me as an editor to adm...
#MOOD – #jasminroberts “Black Man, White House”
When I wrote poems just to get me through … until the next time we met. We don’t know...
blackgirlgradschool : > CARTER MATHES, CHERYL WALL, EVIE SHOCKLEY (LEFT TO RIGHT) > > BRENT EDWARDS (UNPICTURED) > > This is my dissertation committee. They happen t...
all. the. love.
When you need to go off a bit for the people.
coldsuggestion: A man unrequitedly in love will stand outside your home and knock, throw, kick,...
affectionsuggestion: Concept: You love me. We aren’t afraid of hurting each other. It’s warm...
Sometimes life is really very hard. And you’re misunderstood. And you misunderstand. And you feel hurt. And alone. And you may worry. But you can also trust. And if you do so, you might get thr...
when it’s 1 something am and you’re randomly awakened by some sound you still haven’t figured out yet. and then it’s 2 something am so you decide, like the old black grandmother you end...
KholiOli.Co is created from the deepest, darkest, and most obscene obsessions of full-time poet/scholar/teacher/blogger, branding/communications/image consultant and self-defined goal digger + dream catcher, Carrie Kholi.
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one...
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Afternoon shoots. In cemeteries. #newnew #work #khafraclient (at Piedmont Cemetary)
Not that anybody asked … #awordontoday #incubator
Um. My fave track off @yayabeybay'a forthcoming project just dropped on @saintheron. And #thatsablessing. #shesolitshelight #myfaveblackgirls #celiejr #werk