Words can not express how honored we are to be a part of the #Blackalicious album release of “Imani Vol. 1”. It has been 10 years since Blackalicious’ last LP and, this time around, they are giving their fans a chance to get involved, show their...

Words can not express how honored we are to be a part of the #Blackalicious album release of “Imani Vol. 1”. It has been 10 years since Blackalicious’ last LP and, this time around, they are giving their fans a chance to get involved, show their support and get some really amazing items in return.
How does Luvbakes fit in? We were asked to create an exclusive flavor to be sold through their PledgeMusic campaign. The “Black Velvet Vocab” is a black velvet cake with salted caramel buttercream, drizzled in rich, salted caramel and sprinkled with French sea salt. You reaalllly want to try this (if we do say so ourselves). The #cupcake jar comes with a digital download of Imani on release day.
This is truly a celebration! Link to purchase is in our bio.

The thing with challenges is, they’re only as big as we make them seem and as strong as our weakness will allow. Overcoming challenges not only bring us closer to our goals but they turn us into someone we never imagined existed. In the midst of adversity courage is born. You’ll never know how strong you are if you’ve never had to fight and sometimes you might fail but at least you failed and proved to Goliath that he wasn’t quite the Giant he thought he was.
 Kayiba Mpoyi
browngurl: “ “My mother used to say to me, ‘You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you.’ And these words played and bothered me, I didn’t really understand them until finally I realised that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume. It...

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“My mother used to say to me, ‘You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you.’ And these words played and bothered me, I didn’t really understand them until finally I realised that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume. It was something that I just had to be. And what my mother meant by saying that you can’t eat beauty is that you can’t rely on beauty to sustain you.

“What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. It is what got Patsey in so much trouble with her master. But it is also what has kept her story alive to this day. We remember the beauty of her spirit even though the beauty of her body has faded away.

“And so I hope that my presence on your screens and in magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation for your beauty, but also get to the deeper business of feeling beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.”

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