introspective look at

dark portrait of a woman's body art by Paparatzi Keith

Painting titled 'Naturally LV' by DaCre 8iveOne.

Pent Up by Sam Hodges (June 2015)

TO Ponder.

tattooed and beautiful woman

Assassin's who are women are reputably more lethal because of what they deny, suppress, and kill within themselves... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4.19.16

dark portrait of a woman's body art by Paparatzi Keith

We fear the concepts we don't understand. Not knowing they can change us isn't the fear, it is wondering how they will change us. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/3/17

African woman's gentleness is the style she wears.

Elegant is this backless V-neck wrap slim stretch dress. It is cloth, but cloth submits to transformation the way a woman submits to the forces within herself to be a woman. . . - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.11.17

Meditation on Freedom.

My friend, Dr. Sinclair Grey III wrote an affirmation piece today titled: "You Have Unlimited Potential". He address a core dilemma with this insight:

"Sadly and shamefully, too many people put limits on themselves. That's right; they talk themselves out of doing great things because they're so busy listening to the wrong people. If it's not listening to the wrong people, they're creating scenarios and/or circumstances within their head that will hinder progress. I'm here to let you know 'all things are possible,' and the greatest weapon formed against success is not the enemy, it's the person in the mirror. With that said, I urge you to remove doubt and fear from your life. Don't let YOU stand in the way of YOU blowing up from the flow up."

It is straight to the point, which is his style, but what it does evokes typical responses amongst church folk, who apparently can respond to insights and teachings only with clichés, trite comments, scriptural references, and the Amen. In the physical realm and cyberspace (where he published this little probe into reader's cores) Sinclair gets frustrated by these kinds of responses that should reflect struggle and commitment to excellence that Jesus' life reflected. The substance not within the average Christian is not unique a cry of this minister and friend of mine. It is a common angst amongst many men and women of the cloth."  

dark portrait of a woman's body art by Paparatzi Keith

"Preparing to do just that," one man responded to Sinclair's outreach. "I can do all things through Christ Jesus who is my strength!" You see the weakness inherent within the man who wrote this?

Out of softened heart, and reaching out one man to another I wrote to him: "Preparing to not put limits on one's self is a long way of putting it off, procrastinating. It is fear, deep fear. The quick question with an easy answer is "what am I afraid of?" If you don't immediately know you are comfortable in that fear. Freeing one's self is a warrior's call. A warrior moves within his fear. Because he cannot stand bondage every action drives him at any cost to break free. This is how we are all made. Denial is just fear. All creatures fight for their freedom from sperm to roaches, to prisoners of war!

If you want to do it in Jesus' name, fine. But, anything you say out of your mouth is your power or your chain." 


Jesus, Harriet Tubman, Ty Gray-El, Moses, Marcus Garvey, and many others too numerous to name fundamentally ache for their people to accept the freedoms fought for by them. Waiting for the weakness to subside before one fights for one's freedom is indicative of too much time in self-pity, and inside the fears of the unknown residing within the unknown terrain of the soul. What is behind those illusions is what the heart aches for, and knows belongs in your possession. 

Such mystery to unfold.  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Dec. 9, 2016

man on a boat at sunrise watching the trails of chemicals falling upon his head and the body of water.

What a Father asked his son...

Black woman, Lisa, sitting on stairs by Paparatzi Keith 

Rachel Aziani sucking a lollipop. 

Jennifer Love Hewitt straddling the tub 

a Riddle to a Man

"A Black woman teasing with her posture, her eyes, a look in the eyes suggesting the possibility of sex make sucking her finger pull on a man's loins. While in the privacy of a bedroom setting Rachel Aziani is sucking on a red lollipop. Her legs covered in the red cloth of the body suit you want to take off her could easily be spread apart with a hint. Jennifer Love Hewitt, or someone like her walks into the bathroom raises her dress and deliberately boring a hole through your eyes she, without a word, clasps her hands together and parts her thighs as she raises her dress and places one leg into the bathtub and slowly sits down as if she is sitting on you. 

Of the three which one is a whore, a porn star, a working mother, faithful to her cause, or beliefs or simply playing with your emotions because she can?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.6.14

IN the Art of our Masculinity

Paparatzi Keith's story of the invisible thread. . .

The wonder of it all is in the doing, the performance.

What is that like?

Black women in a series of categories are intriguing on an obvious level, but what do thousands of women need to sustain their version of womanhood exposing their mysteries at an elementary level to an unseen audience online, or on television as porn actresses? In short, posing naked in a variety of compromising positions with a variety of men, or with themselves and a photographer does what for the soul of the men they love, or want to love as a woman? Even shorter, being a sex object for many women is a goal, or an expression of what they feel inside is unique and beautiful to feel and thus the justification for revealing their hirsute secret place. Or if the form of their bodies cannot afford plastic surgeries or desires alteration what is being said, or judged by these women of those who panic and can afford to alter their bodies on a surgeon's table? In less fluid language is there a struggle of the ideals of womanhood between women in porn, and women wealthy, vain or desperate enough to alter their bodies and fix their faces into a permanent moment in time?

Perhaps the authors of these confusions are men, what we believe and practice and have forced upon women in Western societies? Well, as African and Native American men that leads to speculation and conclusions drawn in the study of Western civilizations we all fall under at the end of the wars to conquer us on our lands.

Sex appeal translates itself according to the sexual temperament of the viewer and the object. The maturity and spirituality of the observer can translate into something beyond voyeurism, and a feverish horny nature that can see, and speaks to the spirit of femininity, stroll along the mysterious passages into the capacity to exceed carnality, and the entertaining poetry of beautiful sex actions that generate, or stimulate the higher parts of our cerebral cortex.

Let us look at truth and the truth of the matter around sex. Truth, like a lot of things, can stay underwater longer than you or I can hold our breath. So, this is a dare to our spirit and as men a dare to how we see ourselves when we look at pictures of naked women. What comes to the surface when we do is a series of truths unfolding. Our silent recollections of those memories are mirrors and lie they do not because women reflect us, and they know how to measure our assessment of them by how safe they are, and feel around us.

In the art of our masculinity our ancestors know us by our spiritual linen. We wear that linen. They can see it. It forms the basis of their assessments and judgments of us. If we cannot get along with our elemental truths stirred by a woman's naked body we can never get past the judgment we heap upon ourselves in our inability to teach our young men how to behave, perceive and talk to the women of their lives, who include many thousands they will see, but never talk with. In the end our assessment of ourselves determines the future and the future of women throughout the world! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.17.14

naked Black woman smiling in heels !!!!

Black Women's Galleries

perfect petite body in swim wear 

by the pool

a Black woman says, Fuck You!

the Tease tickles

pin up doll -  Amelia Jane by Bombshell Pin ups
April 2014 

Black woman, Lisa, sitting on stairs by Paparatzi Keith 4 

pin up doll - Keara Darling teasing

Retention of Slavery

4 year old Black boy by Paparatzi Keith 

13th Amendment 

a Black woman's powerful stance

Black African wrestlers 

IN Church today...

Black woman, Lisa sitting on stairs by Paparatzi Keith 

Black woman slave nursing a white baby 

A Black woman’s ass is the asset that capsized the ships of many a European man. His fall for the body of African women changed the course of their history and altered the history of others around the globe. For every vision in fashion for white women was the vision their men had of African women’s bodies, principally their large round bottoms, and the shape of their bodies long revered as the form of Godliness, and the shape of the Mother.... - Gregory E. Woods 2013 

Black woman athlete 

TEASE

Black woman, Lisa, sitting on stairs by Paparatzi Keith

There is a soul unique to Black American women that comes from where they've evolved from, and been sent to care for. Life has afforded an evolution to the African woman tradition of creating that was unexpected from the horrors of The Middle Passage. But, they survived to produce something intangible and wild and beautiful and dangerous. 

You captured that in this photo. You also captured the tease. The tease, the promise, the possibility of and the probability of not getting within a mile of her is in the everything she gives the camera that she well could give a man. 

It is really well done. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.6.14

Contrasts in View

"You know as much about your subjects as your camera reveals and makes mysterious, and more compelling because your eye tells stories the soul can reciprocate. It is not a question of what you are creating. It is simply being creative freely. Free being the operative word. You've captured images of Black women that you've studied, it seems. That introspection comes out clearly..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Black woman, Lisa, sitting on stairs by Paparatzi Keith 2

"Keith, the identical one in color explodes with emotion. In black & white it subdues the momentum of feeling the model's accessibility. The absence of color requires introspection and consideration of motive before approach is made.

Interesting contrast." ~ Gregory E. Woods 10.6.14

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