Now there’s a girl from Oakland! 💕 #oaklandlove #figureskating #gold

Oakland is NOT a “doom loop.” 💥
Yes, we’ve got challenges—but we also got heart, history, and a community that refuses to give up. We love our city, and we deserve leaders who fight for it. 🖤💛 #TownBiz #OaklandLove

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Oakland, mi amor.

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Tonight, in Oakland BY DANEZ SMITH I did not come here to sing a blues. Lately, I open my mouth & out comes marigolds, yellow plums. I came to make the sky a garden. Give me rain or give me honey, dear lord. The sky has given us no water this year. I ride my bike to a boy, when I get there what we make will not be beautiful or love at all, but it will be deserved. I’ve started seeking men to wet the harvest. Come, tonight I declare we must move instead of pray. Tonight, east of here, two boys, one dressed in what could be blood & one dressed in what could be blood before the wound, meet & mean mug & God, tonight, let them dance! Tonight, the bullet does not exist. Tonight, the police have turned to their God for forgiveness. Tonight, we bury nothing, we serve a God with no need for shovels, we serve a God with a bad hip & a brother in prison. Tonight, let every man be his own lord. Let wherever two people stand be a reunion of ancient lights. Let’s waste the moon’s marble glow shouting our names to the stars until we are the stars. O, precious God! O, sweet black town! I am drunk & I thirst. When I get to the boy who lets me practice hunger with him I will not give him the name of your newest ghost I will give him my body & what he does with it is none of my business, but I will say look, I made it a whole day, still, no rain still, I am without exit wound & he will say Tonight, I want to take you how the police do, unarmed & sudden & tonight, when we dream, we dream of dancing in a city slowly becoming ash.

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Wishing you all a beautiful day filled with joy and community! ❤️🏙️ #HappyValentinesDay #OaklandLove #LoveLife

@mrespressooak.bsky.social Luv ya! #OaklandLove #OaklandProud #OaklandVibes #ThisIsOakland #OaklandForReal

dear @chinakahodge take care of yourself. i need you here. cracking these spines into shape with your words. #oaklandlove