Black Love

If you could define Black Love what would your definition be?

What would that relationship look like?

How would it feel?

Black love is affectionate, caring, passionate, strong, and cherished, but it can also be difficult and painful.

Black love is about relationships - with each other, and with our people and our culture.

Black Love is raw and beautiful.

It is the backbone and essence of the black experience.

Black Love is truth.

Black Love is support and accountability.

Black Love is reciprocation.

As a people, we belong at every table we choose to sit at and in every room we walk in. Both separately and collectively.

So I hope we choose to rest and walk in love together.

Because…

Love is our way forward.

We will go and get so much farther together than we will apart.

So…

Foster Love.

Cultivate it.

Reciprocate safe spaces for falling and resting in love.

Wholeheartedly learn to gift each other and lean into patience and encouragement.

Make room for that which makes room for you.

Make room for that which makes a home for you.

Make room for what is showing itself to be true.

Make room for love.

Hold space for it.

Hold space for connection.

Hold space for honesty and transparency.

Hold space for each other.