My novel The Selfless Act of Breathing is out in the U.S./North America next month. This amazing collage/visuals of the book was made by insta: @ longdistancereads - order your copy here: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Self - or in any good book shop 🙏🏿 #writer #poet
JJ Bola
@JJ_Bola
Writer|Poet|Human
Author:
No Place To Call Home,
Refuge,
Mask Off,
The Selfless Act of Breathing
and
FLY BOY
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Me in my different friendship groups
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Your MCM is using a national tragedy to score points on a twitter debate.
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Your MCM expect a reward for being a functional adult twitter.com/thats_bates/st
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A lot of men don't realise that they are going to end up alone, regrettably alone, if they continue to treat people badly. I work with a lot of older men who regret their former young playboy lifestyle, but have damaged lives irreparably.
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“I live in a 30 thousand square foot house by myself. You don’t think i know i messed up?” - Shaq
Shit.
Suddenly, Black men understand preference when it's not us being preferred. After all those debates denying colourism. I thought preference was just preference loool twitter.com/punanikam_/sta
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They're bored at the Eurocentricity and lack of diversity at galleries, so they're looking for relatable memes on their phone. I do the same.
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Both hands in this picture are men's. We really do this to ourselves. We create the standard of male behaviour that inhibits and oppresses us, and we also reinforce it. So it's up to us to do the work and free ourselves.
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Original Black love stories please. No more re-telling white stories with Black faces, I'm fed up.
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I would like to see a modernized, traditional, or anachronistic retelling of 'Pride and Prejudice' starring KeKe Palmer as Lizzie Bennett and John Boyega as Mr. Darcy.
Thinking of the idea of a novel vs writing the novel
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Literally everyone: end knife crime by funding youth services and creating provisions and interventions that help young people escape crime and poverty.
Home Office: ok, but hear us out, how about chicken boxes with stories?
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You hate to see it.
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We are rolling out our #KnifeFree chicken boxes in over 210 chicken shops in England and Wales, including Morley’s, Dixy Chicken and Chicken Cottage. They use real life stories to show people how they can go #KnifeFree.
This why I say luxury is a myth and is nothing but classism, consumerism and exclusivity. Not actually about the place or product itself.
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Remember when Dubai was classed as a luxury holiday, now it’s coming like Napa Lol
I'm ready for this statue to be torn all the way down! Leopold II killed 10 million+ Congolese people during colonialism.
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A crowd has climbed onto the statue of colonial King Léopold II in #Brussels chanting “murderer” and waving the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo where his atrocities took place. #DRC 
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
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The loser has to give back all the artefacts they stole currently in their museums.
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Predicting a France -England final
London has us in a strangle hold and we're pretending its a hug.
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London is the most expensive not worth it place in the world ...but I can’t leave 
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I did this job and when I tell you, after a shift I would be so tired, id get home, eat and pass out straight away. This guy is making it look like light work
He's a billionaire who decided the best way to fight crime was to dress up and go after petty criminals, rather than redistribute his wealth and create a sustainable jobs, education and training programme, which is proven to reduce crime. He's no hero, he's the corrupt elite. t.co/kV74AnFxSE
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Before you ask someone to reveal their past traumas or mental health issues on the first date, ask yourself if youre providing a safe space for them to do so? What purpose are you asking them? How will you support them if your question triggers certain traumas?
Also, don't ask.
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Replying to @datJamericanQT
Do you have any past traumas or mental illnesses that you are still recovering from/dealing with??? (This is soooooo important nowadays)
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You do realise that this is BWs reaction after years and years of sacrificing themselves for Black men, and getting nothing in return, right? Right? What else do you expect?
I do not like this photo.
Why must the burden of humanity, of kindness, of compassion, be on the oppressed?
Brother is surrounded by police, and racists, yet if he left the guy bleeding on the floor, he would be seen as the bad one.
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Replying to @reuterspictures
A protester carries an injured counter-protester to safety during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London. More photos as far-right and anti-racism protesters scuffle: reut.rs/3hpbR7M 
Dylan Martinez
Dylan Martinez
Men who ask this question are never actually rich enough to be questioning women's intention over his money.
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How many women really care about their man's health as opposed to his pockets???
This is just objectively not true. You lot are adults. Communicate, speak up. Nobody is psychic. twitter.com/Jannese__/stat
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What's funny? She looks good. You'll see this copied on some magazine soon, and suddenly people will claim fresh new style. I beg. twitter.com/bria_gumede/st
I speak English with an English accent everyday, where's my praise?
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After years of watching their g/mothers, mothers, and now themselves, go through DV, colourism, sexism, Anti-Blackness, verbal abuse, all sorts, at the hands of Black men, this generation of Black women are telling us to sort ourselves out and you lot are taking it personal?
to all the women fighting for equality all over the world #HappyInternationalWomensDay - don't give up the fight.
The demonisation of African spirituality and traditions is on of the most overlooked, yet most impactful and destructive aspects of colonialism. It removed us from ourselves, and our ancestors, in so many ways.
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Africans saying African spirituality is demonic is the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen.
Londoners just want affordable housing and transport and you guys are wasting money on nonsense ideas such this.
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Next year an iconic part of Oxford Street could be transformed into a pedestrian boulevard. Have your say bit.ly/2lW0I5v
Where was this energy in 1491, Andrew?
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Replying to @jeremycorbyn and @stormzy
Why bring someone’s skin colour into anything??
Men are the real pick mes who perform masculinity through demonstrating financial capital, material possessions, physical attributes etc in order to be chosen by women, but due to entitlement feel the most embittered and enraged when rejected. In this essay, I will talk about... twitter.com/WilHovaJr/stat
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Gonna name their child "Imperialism"
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK
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The Pepsi Ad, PlayStation Ad, Nivea Ad, and now this. Is it what-can-we-do-to-purposely-insult-Black-people-week? Am I missing something?
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And yes, it's not just Black men, because this is also a patriarchal issue in all races/cultures, but not all of them have to deal with the added burdens of white supremacist violence, colourism and Anti-Blackness too. Literally, Black women aren't even asking for much.
So this police officer was so concerned about the child's welfare he shot and killed the child's father in front of him. Got it.
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Killer cop says Philando Castile’s "audacity to smoke marijuana" in front of a child made him fear for his life nydn.us/2sVl4OH
Conservative government during elections vs Conservation government in office
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When your white housemate throws away your plantain because he thought it was rotten banana
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Caption this: pic.twitter.com/Soi3zWFb2x
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Because we understand the wage labour exploitation and destruction of our environment that your generation ignored b/c diamonds are shiny.
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This how 99% of Black men behave when we're on our own though. Goofy, carefree, fun. Every one always expects us to be tough smh.
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Women/Feminists have been the biggest advocators for male mental health (often bigger than men). The issue of suicide among men was raised by feminists.
We can't blame women for a patriarchal system that men created and continue to uphold. The math is not mathing. t.co/fBPjDviNq0
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You came 6th, 6th. Why are you using Semenya as an excuse for your mediocrity? come 2nd and talk.
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Tearful Lynsey Sharp says rule change makes racing Caster Semenya ‘difficult’ trib.al/Xl2Rb87