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Key Ballah

@KeyBallah

I’m black.

 Toronto
Joined August 2011
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The Trans Atlantic Black experience is the entry point to blackness. You must go through the door of no return, either as the trans Atlantic body or if you are not trans Atlantic black via an emotional and intellectual understanding of the middle passage.
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@uzoart20 Mar 2020
My mom dancing on my dad’s last nerve during the quarantine. I stan
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They destroy your country, with their guns, their bombs, their drones, their men. And then turn around and shame you for trying to escape their disaster. This. is. how. to. oppress. @KeyBallah #BlackPoetryDay
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i have joined the pop socket bandwagon on my phone thanks to @KeyBallah and i feel like i'm yugioh about to play my blue eyes white dragon
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FREE. PALESTINE.
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People talking about #MasumaKhan being 'ungrateful'. POC don't owe you shit for letting us on land you stole after destroying ours. Gtfo.
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SZA
@sza7 Oct 2017
I literally cut myself off in the middle of negative thoughts like bitch we don't have time for this come back .
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"In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist." - Angela Davis
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‏خضر@mrkhizr22 Jun 2017
Honey & Qur'an.
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An early lesson about work, from Toni Morrison: nyer.cm/B1xxPWt
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Literary Hub
@lithub18 May 2017
He was first and foremost a sufferer, a profound sufferer: on the poetry of Robert Lowell ow.ly/FDMv30bQgnZ
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#fridayreads Honoring these poets & these wonderful collections of poetry & prose that keep me going + amazon links bit.ly/2pcOGED
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'Reach across the hurt You are there, waiting for yourself.' -@KeyBallah
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5 Spoken Word Poets Whose Work Will Change You ✨ including @AcevedoWrites, @mafiasafia, @aja_monet, and more! nylon.com/articles/spoken-wo…
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Migrants in Libya are being rounded up and sold into slavery, UN says cbc.ca/1.4065796
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We have interviews, essays, poems + features from @KatieGreenBean @JabbariWeekes @lleuadau @ijeomaumebinyuo @joniboloney @KeyBallah + more!
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Hind Makki@HindMakki27 Mar 2017
Shoutout to the hijabis, no-jabis, glamjabis, half-jabis and all Muslim girls. It's a tough world. I see you and I love you #MuslimWomensDay
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My Dad told me that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother and show it daily.
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I have seen nothing but you. Every day Has been your face, And every night your hand And every road Your voice calling me.
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"if he hates me for my happiness, send him happiness so he forgets mine" ~ Iman #HalalIfYouHearMe #LTAB17
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