Written by Uju ✍🏽

I do not care what anyone says. Going to school, earning a college degree, pursuing a master’s, or completing a doctorate represents one of the highest forms of discipline.

What belongs in your life will keep finding its way back to you.

Amen 🙏🏽

Or a week. Or even two weeks.

AMEN

These are conversations we should all be having, and when having them, we should be honest and sincere.

And if you ask those folks searching for these criteria if they fit into this standard, I am pretty sure they are nowhere close to this.

One day! 🙏🏽

But when the same questions come back their way, the foundation is not always there. You cannot demand qualities in someone else that you have not built within yourself.

One thing these dating shows keep exposing is how misaligned people’s standards can be. Everyone wants a partner with six figures, stability, discipline, and direction.

Social media removes accountability and reality checks.

I will be a published writer by the end of this year.
I will be a published writer by the end of this year.
I will be a published writer by the end of this year. ✨ I declare it.

Amen 🙏🏽

Me everyday, asking for clarity to people's confusion:

People cannot fix things they do not understand.

When the same behavior repeats again and again, you are not responsible for saving someone from the life they keep choosing.

The same people who disrespected you, tried to break you, or mishandled your presence will still keep watching your life from a distance.

Jayme Lawson, Hannah Beachler, Zinzi Coogler, Wunmi Mosaku, Ruth E. Carter, Shunika Terry Jennings, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw are featured on the newest cover of ESSENCE.

📸 by Peace Bureau.

Discipline is nonnegotiable.

My nose. My siblings and their kids and I all have the same nose and it’s my favorite family inheritance.

My talent for finding the weirdest corner of the internet

My ability to see the light even in the dark. I’m a very optimistic person.

My friend called me a gold medalist in surviving. I'm leaning into that, especially now

I am truly am the most loyal person you could ever meet. Chalk it up to the way I was raised. That it could do with my signs; ♋️ +/& 🐺 But once we are cool, I got you til the end. If you need help, I'm there.

I'm willing to help people who help themselves

Specifically Black and Brown people.....

I'm an open-minded individual that is easy going but also full of surprises when it comes to knowledge and experience

I don’t know how not to show love. I am always authentic with how I present it. It’s embedded and ingrained in me. And I never expect it to be returned because I got enough love in me to love on my mutha fuckin self.