Perhaps Maya Angelou said it best when she told us, “You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I rise.” Sister, just as you have risen to achieve every other academic, career or social goal that you have set for yourself, you may also achieve your dream of a attaining a life partner with whom you can share the joys, sorrows, victories and trials of life. The secret is that your ability to find a suitable mate actually has less to do with black male incarceration rates and high-school drop-out rates and more to do your individual approach to love. When you decide to envision the kind and quality of love that you want and make an effort to be open to a partner who can give you that love — regardless of that person’s race, color, occupation or other demographic statistics — you are getting to love’s essence and the universe responds by revealing abundant possibilities.

So go ahead and be your intelligent, beautiful, phenomenal self as you continue to do the important work of nurturing and affirming yourself and others, achieving your career goals, and fully participating in community and political activism. But please continue to believe in love.

(Source: areadingproblem)