LE COIL – I love this website! The gorgeous photos of vibrant black men and women help me to remember who am in the world, in my community and in my own skin. Living where I live, it can be very easy to feel lost or invisible when I don’t see people or images of people who look like me. I make it a point to seek out positive reminders that inspire me to embrace my uniqueness and remind me that I am beautiful.
“Puttin’ down that do-rag
Tighten’ up my ‘fro
Wrappin’ up in Blackness
Don’t I shine and glow?”
(an Excerpt from one of my favourite books, “Genie in A Jar” by Nikki Giovanni)