TALE of many.

Fashion shoot by Kenneth Lysgaard of the Danish model, Karoline. [2017]

The dare European women had to cultivate over the centuries to survive in their own cultures was against the most horrific conditions set against them. It was a terror without end, powerful enough an angst to shift the way terror became a tool. White men's contempt for women always finds a way to make its presence known and dominant. Does it show itself in photoshoots, on the big screen, in bed, politics; in war? It does. How this corresponds with the simple appreciation of a woman's glory, the boldness of strength a woman embodies is not mysterious. It is engaging. Power and beauty, understanding the past to better appreciate the presence, and gauging the depth of a woman is what a son has to do in his lifetime. It is owed to the present and to the future to be a better woman. Sons need this to operate in their lives of men. When an artist like photographer, Kenneth Lysgaard, sets out to take a picture and stirs the intellect of others says something to the creative power of vision... ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/30/18

She Always Took My Breath!

Angie Dickinson was born September 30, 1931 in Kulm, North Dakota 

to be my dream come true, among other more important things to do with 

her time on Earth. 

Angie Dickinson starred as Pepper, in the television series, 

Police Woman, that first caught my eye and turned me around...

FOUR Different PHotogrphers, I respect!

photo: https://www.instagram.com/arkurwoodeneye/?hl=en

Delicateness within stabilizes the sense of who is beautiful and why. It is an essence this knowing. It is captured within Iris in this moment captured by Aarno Kurkela! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/29/18 

delicate beauty by danial gowans (2014)

Delicate Giorgia Soleri captured by Godfrey J. Massa in available light with a Sony a7rii.

the bride, Kim Thomas by Sam Hodges (July 2015)

Black As They Is!

a Black woman armed. 

Why Black Women Should Be Rated Most Beautiful
July 27, 2014
author unknown

In 2011, a journalist, Satoshi Kanazawa, posted an article on Psychology Today to impose a study on “Why Black Women are Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” and I, among many others, was extremely appalled.

First it was the billboard hanging in NYC stating that the most dangerous place for an African American child is in the womb. Now this?! So, I am here to rebuttal that whole racist and stereotypical article. I will share why in my social and psychological judgement, BLACK WOMEN MAY BE RATED MOST ATTRACTIVE.

I am sick and tired of all the stereotypes trying to bring down our entire race of women by throwing negative connotations our way. To be honest, Beautiful Black women have been through a lot, and have built so much strength over the years. Beautiful Black women have been beaten and abused by men of our race and other races, Beautiful Black women have had our identities stolen, and our pride stripped.

For many years, centuries even, Beautiful Black women have had to overcome so much adversity, pain, and misfortune. Beautiful Black women had our children taken from us, Black women been kidnapped from our native lands, forced into alternative lifestyles, and sold like property. Beautiful Black women have had to bear children, raise them alone, watch them get killed we’ve been shunned by our own people, devalued by other races, and continue to strive for a better way of life for the generations of African Americans to come… all while finding ways of keeping a sane and stable mind. So with that, I am here to speak my piece.

Now, I can’t speak for all Black women, nor can I speak for all the men who rate Beautiful Black women. But for those I do know, I have shared my views with them and they’ve shared theirs with me. I’ve come to realize the finest attributes of beautiful Black women and am so proud. Beautiful Black women aren’t perfect, no race or gender is, but Black women have so many unrecognized qualities and Black women deserve our platform to show it.

With that said, Black Women May Be Rated The Most Attractive because:

1) Beautiful Black women’s STRENGTH. Black women have endured so much and still persist to do better. Black women don’t give up in the face of adversity and approach life fearlessly, no matter how much we’ve been threatened and devalued.

2) Beautiful Black women are so VARIED. We come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Black women are blessed with all different shades, all types of hair, Black women have no standard size and can be as little or as big as we please, we are thick, curvy, thin, petite, slender, large, medium, and small. Beautiful Black women are proud of who we are, uniquely and wonderfully made.

3) Beautiful Black women have such a unique sense of STYLE and wear our fashions boldly and proud. Beautiful Black women invent new ways of innovating our style. Beautiful Black women change the game on so many levels, adding new colors, jewels, accessories, and more.

4) Beautiful Black women’s SKIN is strong and just doesn’t crack. Black women can certainly maintain our youth. 

5) Beautiful Black women are BOLD and outgoing. Black women aren’t afraid to be honest and speak our mind.

6) Beautiful Black women’s HAIR can do any and everything. Beautiful Black women are the only race that can pull off any type of hairstyle, whether cut, curled, colored, straight, kinky, braided, bobbed, twisted, long, short, weaved, or not- Black women can do it all.

7) Beautiful Black women are professional LEADERS. People of color have lead so many industries, from entertainment, athletics, politics, science, and more! Beautiful Black women have been inventively changing the game for years and years. Black women are creative thinkers who never allow anything to stand in the way of our success.

8 ) Beautiful Black women are MOTHERS and LOVERS and always keep that as our priority. No amount of money or level of our career can take away the priceless role of being a mother or lover. Beautiful Black women understand the value of keeping family first and live to keep that in our blood for years to come.

9) Beautiful Black women are are as SEXY and SOPHISTICATED as Black women want to be. 

hair of Kandae Gunther of Black Atheists. 

10) Beautiful Black women are CONFIDENT, no matter who tries to tear us down, Black women don’t ever stay down.

11) Beautiful Black women are FIGHTERS. No matter what challenges stand in our way, Black women fight to find a way past it. We don’t settle and certainly don’t fold.

12) Beautiful Black women value our LOOKS. Black women are always researching new ways to keep our body, skin, nails, clothes, weight, and hair on point. Black women put great value in our fashions and appearance making sure we achieve the look that best represents how we feel inside.

13) Beautiful Black women LOVE our men. No matter what we’ve been through with Black men, Black women cannot help but love the fathers, brothers, sons, and male partners in our lives. Black women honor them and place them with such high regard– until they ruin it of course– and still, Black women love them unconditionally. Even without the looks, money, time, and physical or emotional attention we request of them, Black women can’t help loving the men in our lives. Beautiful Black women understand their struggle and try so hard to be the support and strength that they need.

14) Beautiful Black women find ways to EDUCATE ourselves even when education isn’t readily available. 

face of this Black woman is fierce. 

beautiful legs of Vivica A. Fox by Theo Wargo in 2015 

at opening of Fendi's flagship store in New York 2015

15) Beautiful Black women find ways to MAKE MONEY when we reach our lowest points. Beautiful Black women use of heads and don’t ever settle for being broke.

16) Beautiful Black women live, love, and LAUGH. We like to hang out, be with family, be out on the town, and enjoy the joys that life that has to offer in Black women’s various ways.

17) Beautiful Black women have FAITH. Although Black women may all have chosen different paths to our faith, Black women have a spiritual relationship with God that gives us the strength to keep on persisting through every challenge that comes our way.

18 ) Beautiful Black women are TALENTED. Black women sing, we dance, we act, we play instruments, we play ball, we write, we draw, we step, we swim, we design, and basically find some valuable skill in ourselves that we can someday call a talent.

19) Beautiful Black women are OPEN-MINDED and aren’t biased toward other races of shows, music, movies, books, people, etc. Black women weren’t raised to be that way, but understand how we are viewed by others and are always aware of that. Black women keep an open mind toward all others while trying to maintain our self pride and defenses in the midst of other races.

20) Beautiful Black women  RESPECT ourselves. Black women will never allow anyone to degrade our race to our face. Black women respect ourselves and our people and will always stand up for our cultural rights. Black women love ourselves no matter what Black women were conditioned to think and feel about being Black. Black women honor our ancestors and all their struggles seen and unseen. Black women believe in our achievement, our success, and our race someday overcoming all our adversities. Black women know what respect is and we demand it.

Keesha Sharp, actress on red carpet in March of 2007. 

Ebony Lynn, the composed mystery of

Lena Horne, a lady, a jazz singer.

a Model of Excellence: Mrs. Obama

Michelle Obama in China doing Ta Chi !!!!

Michelle Obama

INTENSITY, an element

Taraji P. Henson's intensity !!!!

Taraji P. Henson at BET Awards show.

Some Beauty in our World.

Wildlife. Leaf Grasshopper in Calicut, India caught by Joby Varghese's Nikon camera 

D4S,90 mm-1/250,f/22,@320. 

"What makes you think you are better than reptiles when each one of you have a reptilian brain?" asked the lizard one day. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9/28/18

Wildlife. Oriental garden lizard in Calicut, Kerala, India taken 

by Joby Varghese back in December 2017.

This Perspective.

Older Black woman's face and amused look.

Young cats, for the most part, will learn late how precious older women's beauty is in the development within spheres of consciousness that surpass mere lust, and longing. Some women probe the edges of this quest to later come in a man's life, and others start it all unexpectantly in a man's young manhood. How the stunning revelation of such women hits a man tells on his soul's condition drawing attention with light upon awakening, or simmering mounds of defecation!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/2/18 

in shadow and light death and sacrifice.

RIDDLE: challenge to Manhood

Dark fine and wild!

Gentle touch carefully placed.

This Black woman defies something you may need, and defines something intelligent outside the elements of lust. What evolves from lust, as natural as can be, is a want to know more about what was entered in relationship to who a man is unto himself...

There is more to this, of course, but punany has laws... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 8/18/18

Thick and seemingly inaccessible, Yves Nunez creates that vibe without effort. It is what she exudes that leans one toward understanding why her essence is intimidating to the weaker components of some men's esteem. There is a lot of power in that weakness. Women can use it to their advantage and awaken men into themselves with a suggestion, a hint, a nudge or a look in the eye. Men's disadvantage is ignorance of their weakness and the lack of strength to release the substance of who they are meant to be into the swirling powers of Creation. This awakening is a trick women learn from the Mothers to weave into men through direct penetration, and the nuance within sexual intercourse!  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [8/18/18]

How Three Look.

Mature women's bodies are intriguing with introspective ways of being alluring, promising and sure about things a young woman could not grasp. [Darla Crane is the model.] - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.31.15

Yasmina Rossi, over 60, from behind...

Mature women steal the attention from pretty young things. It is incomprehensible how, in the perception of youth feeling triumphant over old age, this is done. Old age simply knows what it took to get old acquiring powers... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/24/18

SEAGULLS Belong...

Seagull by the Turkish photographer, Safak Yavuz. (2017).

Seagull problem.

Long after we are gone off the face of the Earth, if that happens, a modicum of Life will remain. Among the remnants will be seagulls, rats, crows and vultures. They will help build life anew with restorative powers. Let's awaken from within before then. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/28/18

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.