Eric Bernard.Art

Ok so I am going to keep this short and simple, because I am hanging like hell and still don’t remember much. Yesterday night I met Henry Cavill whilst incredibly drunk.

Being so drunk I remember very little of the encounter, but I have been informed by my not so drunk friends.

DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It (Lxury Remix)

Lil Texas - Boiler Room Set.

Kendrick Lamar - Alright

As a black 21yr old female I cannot reiterate enough how important it is that Misty Copeland has been made principal ballerina at the ABT.  My only way in doing so is to share my own story on how Serena and Venus Williams have and continue to shape my own life.

As a child of  african parents growing up in the green leafy suburbs of London in an almost exclusively white area and going to a private school where I was on of maybe five black girls in the school; due to the ignorance of others I quickly established that I was different - i.e. I was black. 

Even though my parents always installed self pride within in me, being told you that you weren’t going to be invited to a party because of the colour of your skin while you sang “and the creed and the colour, and the name don’t matter” in assembly left me confused and conflicted. 

But then Venus and Sernea Williams came upon the scene. Beautifully black and strong women dominating an all white upper class sport. I suppose because of them I started to play tennis and because of them I took pride in myself to the point where insults only strengthened me. Because of them I was able to dream and see myself succeeding in my dreams. Me a black child holding trophies and succeeding in life.

Because of these women I applied myself to tennis and trained hard. I may not have become a professional tennis player (even though I was close), however more importantly I learnt how to handle discrimination and I learnt how to dream and most importantly I learnt if you truly put your mind to anything you can achieve. 

Now as 21 woman who has achieved a physics degree and is looking to venture in the city, as a black woman who is unafraid and unashamed to listen to classical music, to enjoy ballet, to enjoy art, to twerk, to braid my hair and choose only to we are weave when I want to, and feels no regret having friends of multiple ethnicities (and at times maybe being the only black friend in the group); I have Serena and Venus Williams to thank for allowing me to believe I was an equal and even better on the tennis field and life. And as Martin Luther King Jr taught, that it is my character that defines me and not my skin.

Janet Jackson - No Sleep

Friendly Fires - Show me lights