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This database compiles information about more than 36,000 voyages that forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic between 1514 and 1866. www.slavevoyages.org

Don't fall for the lies.

“Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

Ryan Coogler has snatched all of my follicles. I'm immensely happy I waited until I could go see this film with both my kids. So much rich detail to unpack with them. #Sinners

“The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.” ― Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next ‘fix’ is coming from.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass”― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

She tried 😱💀🤣🤣

“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

I'm gonna need a minute!

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” ― Maya Angelou #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you’ll get off the ground.” ― Zora Neale Hurston #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” ― Zora Neale Hurston #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.” ― Zora Neale Hurston #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“I've known the joy and pain of friendship. I 've served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I've loved unselfishly, and I've fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”― Zora Neale Hurston #blackkink#blackbdsm#BlackSky#ropeart #selftie

“Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.” - Laverne Cox #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #ropeart #selftie

Listening to the "Friend" Hood episode and when Jade said "oh he has the whip appeal" I dead and saw the ancestors and her reaction once she realized what she said made it 1000 times better or worse depending who you are. I'm the better type 🤣🤣😂😆 #GettinGrown #BlackSky #PodcastSky

Mended Light's take on #jayvik relationship has left me deep, deep in my feels. #arcane is devouring me! Between this series and the books I've been reading I feel exposed. I better go call the lady. #Blerds #BlackSky

Sky Full of Elephants🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 profound & beautifully written. Finished it on Thursday and it took me until this morning to process my feelings to write my review. Can't wait to hear him talk about his work 2/27 #skyfullofelephants #cebocampbell #BlackBookSky #BlackSky #Blackskybookclub

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage When the back is almost as pretty as the front...

Love me some us!

"Interactive maps bring Black migration stories to life" My friend, Clinton Johnson, a National Geographic Explorer, is using GIS to create the Empathy Atlas, focusing on data storytelling to highlight Black migration histories. news.nationalgeographic.org/explorer-cli... #BlackSky #GISchat #Geosky

Wait, I just discovered the #meljayvik fans and they're just as filthy, filthy as the #jayvik fans I really, really like it here

Not my dumb ass listening to the Arcane 2 Soundtrack to "relax". 3 songs in I want to punch a wall! #Blerds #arcane

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”― Audre Lorde #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

Kendrick made the flag out of nothing but black bodies. Just in case you ever doubted he was blackity black! "The revolution is about to be televised, you picked the right time, but the wrong guy." -Kendrick Lamar #BlackSky

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Continuation of yesterday's tie #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.” ― Audre Lorde #blackkink #blackbdsm #BlackSky #decorativerope #ropeart #selftie #ropebondage