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)

WHEN WE AWAKEN

"Some things are just average, other things are spellbinding!" 

Dark beauty of this white woman circa. 2005 for Steed Muscle Bike Motorcycle Co.

Definition of a strong Black woman!...

Some things you don't question, you ponder. Some elements are held in awe and still others bring into focus the sense of being. . . ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/22/18 

Dark woman's body art. The two are simple together, as light meets dark to made shadows. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/22/18

"Modesty in American terms is a definition rebellious by nature. In terms of agreement the bend in the road of modern thought is to upset the balance of normalcy with prejudices towards high standards requiring work to obtain. It is an interesting social experiment American culture..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/23/18 

Quiet is the Storm

The Alpha and Omega of Beauty, she is.

the Hope to Break free!!

Black Woman in blue by Ike Slimster

There is a lot of space to be filled with the stories about the essence and the survival of Black African daughters, who have come from a dark past in relation to Europeans. But, there are the centuries before our Dark Centuries with the whites, we do not talk about because we only think of ourselves in terms of enslavement. This dark space in our souls is our history connecting us to Europe after we opened the world-at-large to them. There is no Europe or America without the Blacks from the Land of the Blacks!. . . ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [August 8, 2018]

Dark Characters (2)

Morticia Addams from the TV series, The Addams Family in 1964.

In 1964, using a long coal-black wig, the brunette Carolyn Jones ( born Carolyn Sue Jones in Amarillo, Texas, on April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983 ) began playing Morticia Addams on the television series The Addams Family, a role which brought her success as a comedian and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
(WIKI)

Brooke Shields as Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical, June 28, 2011!

She replaced Bebe Neuwirth in that role.

Kim Novak as Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd in

'Bell, Book & Candle' a 1958 romantic comedy.

Kim Novak as Gillian "Gil" Holroyd in "Bell, Book & Candle" , a 1958 American romantic comedy Technicolor film directed by Richard Quine, based on the successful Broadway play by John Van Druten and adapted by Daniel Taradash. It stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbor played by James Stewart. Rounding out the supporting cast are Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold and Elsa Lanchester. The film is considered Stewart's last as a romantic lead. (Wiki)

DARK Women

The Dark Woman. 

Janet Jackson in black dress August 3, 2012.

Trend Of Copying The Beautiful Black Woman

The new trend of black men attacking dark skin black women is a frightening game that will have vast frightening repercussions. If a dark skin man devalues a dark skin women based on hype, then in essence, he is not only downgrading his mother and all the women and ancestors of his family, but he is also downgrading himself. Wouldn’t this make him less of a man at best?

The black woman is without argument, the most beautiful gender on the planet. She comes in vast colors and shapes and sizes. But you can always recognize a black woman by how her body is shaped and how she is built. The black woman is built strong and her shape is something to be desired. Even when the black woman is not trying to be sexy, she automatically is sexy. The beautiful black woman possesses a figure that no other gender on the planet has. Black women are physically strong and usually dominant athletically.

Some, not most, black men are handing their black women over to the wolves in a desperate attempt to fit in with a supremacist white society that has downgraded and killed black men and black women for centuries. It’s put to black men as if now they have justification for the predicament they are in. Let’s blame the beautiful black women because she didn’t do a good job raising the black man. But this is not fair and this is not accurate. For if anyone deserves to be punished for their role in bringing up black men, enough blame can be passed to black men. The burden is for the black men and black women to share together.

Naked as a sacred symbol African women unafraid are a natural force.

Psychology Of Most Beautiful Black Woman

Society has attacked beautiful black women so much that even black men have begun carrying out a misguided agenda against black women, claiming that they are not beautiful and less of a woman. There have even been popular media channels set up on social networks, where black men have basically set up channels to denounce dark skin women.

The popularity of degrading most beautiful black women has effortlessly caught on with black men. It appears that even when being black is the butt of a joke, black people participate in an effort to fit in. What is commonly seen and thought of as high school mentality, has apparently shifted to the masses. This time, the joke isn’t about black men. Because black men feel like they are free from this particular attack, some willingly chime in and degrade beautiful black womenas well, without realizing, that they are secretly the butt of every joke and attack against black people. Sorry brothers, but you have not escaped ridicule.

Black woman in black outfit and some baad red heels!

The popularity of degrading most beautiful black women has effortlessly caught on with black men. It appears that even when being black is the butt of a joke, black people participate in an effort to fit in. What is commonly seen and thought of as high school mentality, has apparently shifted to the masses. This time, the joke isn’t about black men. Because black men feel like they are free from this particular attack, some willingly chime in and degrade the most beautiful black women as well, without realizing, that they are secretly the butt of every joke and attack against black people. Sorry brothers, but you have not escaped ridicule...

"Overwhelming presence and beauty is its own energy source compelling 

poet to pen, singer to listen, and drummer to the heartbeat." 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/27/17

Tiffany Haddish, comedienne. 

Beyond the!

Supreme something in her beauty is an essence inaccessible to physical touch, and inadmissible as fodder for the lower elements of men, who hunt for these qualities for consumption... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Tribute to the Nude.

body art in music notations. 

"Bathing in the out of doors is this lust she is inspiring, or divinity she exudes?"

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

photo by King Kesia 

Black ballerinas inspired by Misty Copeland.

being still.

What is waited for in African women is their older years. That blossom is a profound experience to live through, I imagine. I know the feel and the actual power of this energy, as a man. It Transforms.... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [7/23/18]

Doppelgänger

Kyle Richards, a beautiful woman is rich, famous and a reality star!

Demi Moore, actress

"A doppelgänger is a look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Other traditions and stories equate a doppelgänger with an evil twin. In modern times, the term twin stranger is occasionally used. The word "doppelgänger" is often used in a more general and neutral sense to describe any person who physically or behaviorally resembles another person." 

In the case of actress, Demi Moore, and the reality star from the Housewives of Beverly Hills series, Kyle Richards it is simply a matter of awe, bewilderment at the might of their penetrating looks. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

I sing the Body Electric!

Portrait of an exciting age to be a Woman!

Exotic women love to be felt through the senses of a man's soul, and a woman's envy. The latter is dependent upon factors registering maturity and about men there is an excitement being sexually desired on a large scale by an ever changing parade of men folk! Exotic women are the dare, the element silent enough to create tension in a man's vows to matrimony. Part of the fun of being a married man is the attention from exotic women and his ability to enjoy resisting and resisting indeed! The link between exotic, lust, longing and pure joy keeps the coals smoldering and one's warrior practice vibrant and vigilant! Caving in is a measurement of weakness dividing the purity of development, and the joy of being strong and the potency of being trusted! 

When a woman wants a man in her she knows why. She knows if she wants his seed because seed as a need is a power! 

I got it. I understand the properties of my semen. It acquaints me within the assembly of the weights between righteous reverence and an incalculable sense of power to be larger than Life, and humbled by it inside of the right woman!

I have long understood the shadow of death, but as an ally death became counsel. What death feels like to me presses down upon me the meaning of 'why' and 'how'. So, I become a bit more systematic within the framework of being in the process of doing my work, as a matter of life and death, with no pretense in knowing when I will leave. There is always the intense shadow of remembering my original agreements to come to live on Earth, but it has never, since childhood, been enough to keep me bound by fear of the dying for long periods of time. 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Sept. 5, 2017 

"Tennis shoes, short jean jacket worn by a Black woman is more than enough to take in. What is the probability she is difficult, or easy to love? These are questions a man asks of his Medicine Powers."

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/5/17  

Necklace of a Goddess. 

Symbols are important. Their value as necklaces ties them around the throat chakra, where the power of the voice awaits development! The striking thing is the symbol the young woman is wearing is of a Goddess. It isn't the term men understand; it is the essence of divine order, of divinity and the powers of discerning true power in the apparently complex science of transference of powers, men misunderstand!

It matters to a great deal of men how she looks, how available she appears, but it may all be a flaw in their anticipation of sex because this photo is out of the context of where and how power works with symbols' energies!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Sept. 5, 2017] 

an Expression to heart.

"A thoughtful interpretation of beauty expresses itself in her face. Framed for a perception by the photographer other frames of reference arise looking into her eyes. The frame of her body, the modesty or naturalness her nude speaks to Beauty, as Soul!..." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Squatting before Roland Dawson's camera, Chelly Minyon Martin. 2017.

Black FACE!

Amara La Negra Shuts Down Trolls Saying She’s In Blackface

"Amara La Negra is both black and Latina, a concept many online trolls can’t quite seem to grasp.

The Miami-born Dominican singer first addressed social media comments that she is donning blackface during a live interview with The Shade Room...

But it seems the issue didn’t end there. On Thursday, the singer once again addressed accusations that she wears blackface by posting an adorable throwback video of herself participating in a beauty pageant when she was a child.

“Well Yea I guess I was Born in a ‘Black Face Body!,’” Amara wrote in the Instagram caption for the video. “Its funny that I even have to go through this and show you baby pictures or videos to prove to blogs and people on social media that my skin color is not airbrushed or spray tanned nor do I take melanin shots to be black!”' 

Amara La Negra is a Miami-born Dominican singer.

"Being an Afro-Latina in the Latin market is particularly difficult, because you essentially have to work twice as hard to prove yourself. As much as people want to say that racism is over and it doesn’t exist, it does, especially in the Latin market. When they talk about a Latina, they talk about Sofia Vergara or Jennifer Lopez, Shakira even. But not anyone who looks like me, and I’m 100 percent Latina.

I’ve been in novelas, but the roles that are carved out for us are more often than not stereotypical. You’re a slave, a drug addict, a gangster, or a murderer — those kind of roles. It’s tough to land a serious role. And anytime I say stuff like this, people are in shock. Like they can’t believe I just said racism is alive or something. Listen, I can only speak from my own personal experience.

One of the reasons I’m so rebellious and I wear my hair from my head attached to my body, is because for many years I was told this bullshit lie that in order to be beautiful, I had to have straight hair, because my hair was too “unmanageable.” Hello! I’m black. Yes, I’m going to have nappy and kinky hair. But that’s part of what makes me beautiful. And it took me years to know and realize that. I’m straightening and burning my hair for what? To please who? I was doing it to try and fit into society." ~ Amara La Negra 

HIS ART (2017)

Chelly Minyon Martin by Roland Dawson

Street etiquette 

jeans properly worn by Gorgeously Nelly, another Island girl, and Kayla Crawford!

photographer Roland Dawson created this set at the Abstract Reality Art Gallery & Photography Studio,

and the model set it off!

Roland Dawson's photograph of a brown woman in the window.

Other America. 2

Wylona Hayashi's eyes pull and pull against the sense of being 'normal' with a tease into the unnatural state of being free from conventionality women aspire to from their girlhood. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Hippie chick and a Hell's Angel. Social protest was unique back then, never to be duplicate...

Melanin, its place in Life.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
[Tao Te Ching chapter 11]

Juno Brown by Ola Carlvik said, 'Destiny is belligerent.' Oct. 27, 2013.

Just playing!

Gaye McDonald

"The melanin's power is enviable from the perspective of those born without it, whose pineal glands are calcified at birth! Those full in their understanding of this power are capable of the extraordinary. How do you think the processes came to the Egyptian people in the long ago that formed their architecture, sciences, healing modalities and so on?" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/4/17

the Dignity

Portrait of Gaye McDonald, a Jamaican model.

Close to touch, perception.

dark beautiful eyes. penetrating the way they do make her beauty seem to flow...

Barbara Babcock, an actress on the series, Hill Street Blues, in the early 1980's was to me the most sensual woman on television. What she did onscreen was undeniable, memorable, and unbelievable on that series!!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Know This.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. - Deepak Chopra

Crow and her Lady.

Looks, Appearance and Wonder.

Dark skin woman wearing fake hair. It is a statement hard to grasp against the backdrop of authenticity.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Delicateness is as precious as innocence,. These two elements are deserving of protection. This is a spiritual responsibility of being an adult. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Designed and worn by Simone McGowan in the Design A Dress competition.