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Isi Rose
2 months
If you've ever thought of writing a Children's Book, or reached out for support with yours, I'm thrilled to share that Wanda World has teamed with UCT to bring to life our first course, titled From Idea to Publication. It's everything I wish I knew from the start. Come along!📚
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Isi Rose
3 years
Sarah had steatopygia which led to protuberant buttocks due to fat build-up. She didn't willfully reveal her body in those predatory European exhibitions. Theres a sensitivity we're yet to practice in our connection & storytelling of that 19-year-old girl that was so mistreated.
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Isi Rose
3 years
Live from the Grand Arena. "NguZimi lonaa." 🔊 #MissSA2021
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Isi Rose
1 year
“Sometimes, you remember me better than I remember myself. I think that’s important in a friendship—to hold reflections of people for them, be a mirror when they start fading in their own eyes. I hope I do the same thing for you, too.” — Akwaeke Emezi
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Isi Rose
8 months
Mama’s lasting memory of #uNobuntu is her little girl in an orange dress. We too wore orange, in remembrance, in love. 🧡
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Isi Rose
3 years
I can't believe the psychological warfare we've amassed on the minds of black children, who at this tender age (already) grasp that if they don't take now, they likely will never have.
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Sixolise Gcilishe
3 years
If you help me find him, I'm buying him a new wardrobe ❤️🥺
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Isi Rose
1 year
My mom began writing isiXhosa poetry in 1983, after losing her 1st child uNobuntu. Poetry was healing. Forty years later, she sees her completed book for the 1st time on camera. This story is now a documentary too. Come Celebrate the Book & Doc premiere:
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
20 days
My family takes celebrations seriously. We’re celebrating my brothers 30th and this special occasion will begin with my mother reading a poem specially written for him. Nyana wam, Nyana wam, is the title. Isn’t family love done right just so generous and healing?! ❤️🥹
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Isi Rose
2 years
😭🔷👗 – “the hundred dresses.”
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Isi Rose
4 years
Our parents who are no longer with us, are with us. ❤️
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
2 years
The Dream For a Global Television Show for Literature Realised. You can NOW watch The Ultimate Book Show with Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni on @sabc3 , Monday to Friday (daily) between 3-4 pm starting todaaaaay! We kickstart the series with the legendary, Diana Ferrus.
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Isi Rose
4 years
@_kuhlem Thato's response:
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Isi Rose
4 years
Had a good laugh teaching my gran how to use her smart phone earlier. Seeing herself on video, uthi: "ingathi ndiyigrogro. Yintoni iske ikwenze ubembi kangaka, yho." 🤣
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Isi Rose
3 years
"And if I speak of Paradise, then I’m speaking of my grandmother."🤎 Umakhulu wam.
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Isi Rose
2 months
Wallpaper. I’m ART. 🥹🤍
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
11 months
"I am feeling grateful, that tells me, I am beginning to heal." 🥹 - Alice Walker
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 year
Our WANDA has been turned into a musical, to be in theatres this MARCH. Watching a rehearsal this morning - EXCITED!
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Isi Rose
18 days
“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” ―Toni Morrison
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Isi Rose
4 years
@uzumakigallery @BeingUpile "Holding you is like: what is this actual piece of divine miracle, that somehow this universe allowed to organize. It's insane, like, looking into your eyes, feels like looking into a miracle." 🥰❣️
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
2 years
H A I R 🌸
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
19 days
Guess who's opening a UN strategic planning session with a poem today? Yours Truly! ❤️ I would have never known that my degree in Policy & Politics would merge into Purpose through Poetry. Guess you have to keep loving what you love, eventually it loves you back fluently. 🥹✨
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 year
Final dress rehearsal for WANDA the musical. The tour begins tonight with a preview in PTA, then Durban, then CPT, then JHB at the end of MARCH. We can't wait for you to see it!
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Isi Rose
9 months
Popi is bravery and surrender personified. Her penchant for life, despite, is an invitation. Can’t wait for channel to pay for her content so she shows us more of her Africa travel world w/o worrying about bucks. 💗
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iMbaliEnhle
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This girl gives me so much stress!
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Isi Rose
9 months
I still take my hat off for Shudu’s #MissSA advocacy campaign. Mental Health online during the pandemic was such a timely intervention. Her range of guests & topics, the publication of her children’s book & the partnership with SADC! Real strategic intervention. 🙌🏾🤞🏽👑
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 year
A writer's daughter ke sana 🥹😂♥️ F2: Holding my mother's story, her pain, her wisdom, her boo(oooo)k. It took a lifetime to publish, but my God I am so thankful she wrote her truth, now our inheritance.
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
Sihle-isipho. 👗🤍💙 📷: @Osumm
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
You all showed this picture so much love. Thank you. 😍🥺. Here's a special moment of my family seeing the painting for the first time. ♥️
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Isi Rose
3 years
"And if I speak of Paradise, then I’m speaking of my grandmother."🤎 Umakhulu wam.
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Isi Rose
10 months
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.” ― Khaled Hosseini
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
4 years
A focused queen. Look, Gorgeous Mbali is here to get everything that's hers. Turning mockery into moola. She named the last color in her pallette, phadiiii. Sabaseleke. ❤️🙆🏽‍♀️🙌🏾
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Isi Rose
3 years
@tembisa_J I hear you. I find it hard to see it as celebration cause she didn't consent to her story or our collective memory of her. She was young & her bum was objectified for years. This very disease added to her exploitation, demise & premature death. How do you see it as celebratory?
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
Ndithini? Change my bio to International Award winning writer....😂😆❤️
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
4 years
@apple_chef @ZikhonaTshona "So what more do I want from my Gaard?!" Love to see it! 😍😂
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Isi Rose
2 years
@Olwe2Lesh "It's me waking up very early on the day of choosing wives." 🤣😍
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
Wanda in the US printed in hardcover. What a beauty. 😍 #childrensbooks
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 year
5 More Days till #WandaWorldFest in JHB 🙌🏾🥳 80 theatre seats only for Wanda The Musical. Get your tickets:
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
2 years
Only ePhodweni, son of the soil @dmandisi - you are endless. Thank you. 🙏🏾
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
4 years
@nadia___n @AkheMfenyana "Efika nje, seyene'ngxaki", "How come how dare?" This was good, good.🤣
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Isi Rose
1 year
“Love counts the most. It is the most important human feeling. This is the feeling we get which compels us, even when we don't have what is needed, and yet we make a way to make the other feel good. Without it, we maybe useless.” — Ama Ata Aidoo
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 year
The French ambassador to France says my poetry opening address was “spell binding.” Gathered with African storytellers from across the globe at @PAfriqofficiel , #Cannes2023 an affirmation of our continental power & unity. Happy Afrika Day maAfrika amahle.
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
2 months
Life in Frames 🤍
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Isi Rose
3 years
"the hundred dresses" 😆
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 year
This book is often and almost always on my heart. Thinking about it again today. I want to share some lines I love from it over this week. 🤍
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Isi Rose
11 months
“I want all my time. Something is trying to prepare itself in me. I need to keep quiet for as long as it takes. Go only with Spirit... to do my work, to benefit all.” — Alice Walker
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Isi Rose
1 year
“I want to be as brilliant as you see me. I think that is one of the best gifts we can give each other, to hold space for the stars that we are in each other’s eyes.” — Akwaeke Emezi
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Isi Rose
3 years
"Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, and everything you do Yeah, they were all yellow." 💛
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
As we add AWARD WINNING to BESTSELLING: Wanda wins it's debut International award... 🌟 ”an outstanding book that promotes an understanding of cultures, cultivates cooperation and encourages a deeper awareness of nature, ecology, and diversity.”
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Isi Rose
6 months
I’d literally fall over and die if i didn’t have words to live. Poems, lines and letters from others, journal entries, scripture, words, words, words brewing up in my being all day, making up the fullness of my breath. I’d fall over and die. Words are the sum total of my being.
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
My LITERARY year begins💃🏾. I was commissioned by @nalibaliSA to write this year's #WorldReadAloudDay story. Now translated into all S.A languages to reach 3 million children. Parents & Guardians, WhatsApp the word “WRAD” to 0600442254 & pledge to read to a child on 3 Feb. #WRAD
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Isi Rose
1 year
My mother is the ultimate celebrator. She WILL turn any moment into a tune. This is the day my family first saw the completed book of uNobuntu. My girl didn't miss a beat, that evening she was teaching everyone her new tune: "Mbeksy's a published author...author, author!" 😂♥️
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Isi Rose
3 years
"Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much more value than the brids?" — Matt 6:26
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Sinethemba.
3 years
Allowing God to take care of things is always a great decision.
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Isi Rose
2 years
Friends!! Last night, my new documentary, Nobuntu received it's first international award at @svaff . #SVAFF2022 had over 2000 submissions. 102 films were screened and our works gained this special recognition. 💫🥺🙏🏽
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
1 month
“Look, we are not unspectacular things.       We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder? What if we stopped being terrified, if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big....” — Ada Limón
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Isi Rose
2 years
"A Committee of librarians, authors, teachers, psychologists, and booksellers reviewed thousands of titles for accuracy, literary quality, diversity, emotional impact, and social relevance" and Wanda won Best Children's Book of The Year in the US! A WANDAful win for us all. 🥳
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Isi Rose
2 years
What do I want? A reading nation. Critical thinking citizens. Children full of imagination through stories. An archive of our humanity & times. Liberation through knowledge. A valuieng of our creatives & thinkers, enlarging their audiences globally. Reimagining our capabilitiies.
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Isi Rose
2 years
I listened to @Mpoomy_Ledwaba & Sinovuyo Mondliwa's conversation on the Wisdom and Wellness podcast this morning. Amazing! Emotionally rich, engaging, and equipping. Highly Recommend.
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Isi Rose
5 years
My partner is burning the midnight oil with me for my upcoming deadline, he is moving between 3 computers in the lab to help process my data cause my laptop is slow & there far too many observations to analyze. This is the bouquet for me tonight hey all the rose petals I need🧡
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
3 years
Yhu, andisemhle! It was my birthday yesterday. Wore my first @MaXhosaAfrica piece 🤩, now cherried by this WANDAful shoutout from @zakesmda - ah thank you! ❤️
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Zakes Mda
3 years
Oh my goodness, uSihle bantu, happy birthday @Ceehl
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Isi Rose
24 days
You go to therapy for one reason, and then barely end up discussing the matter that brought you to your knees because truly, “the wound, came before the wound.” ❤️
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Isi Rose
18 days
“We are the spear of victory, we are the blade of freedom.” — The Woman King
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Isi Rose
4 years
"My life is mine." -Tracee Ellis Ross
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@Ceehl
Isi Rose
2 years
6 glorious days of historic & defining conversations. 13 films, +400 kids, 12 extraordinary thinkers, Ami Faku + the ultimate dream team. The filming of the #TheUltimateBookShow S2 exceeded our hopes! Eternally grateful for the support & love eQonce. A literary renaissance. ♥️
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Isi Rose
1 year
The Board of Advisors of the James Currey Society at the University of Oxford, has approved Prof Gqola as the James Currey Lifetime Achievement Awardee for 2023. The award appreciates and recognises important work in literary criticism and African literature." 😍👏🏾
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Mandela University
1 year
Oxford University accolade for Mandela’s Prof Pumla Gqola #R2bP Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola, Mandela Uni Professor of Literary & Cultural Studies & the SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination, has been awarded a prestigious international award Read more
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Isi Rose
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I really like the side of my twitter (X) where Mary Oliver is trending. On a Sunday. How entirely sweet?! Here are her words: “I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it.”
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Isi Rose
8 months
"Bringing the joy of stories to young minds is my life's greatest privilege. #WandaToTheWorld #StorytimeMagic 🩷
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Isi Rose
1 year
"There's the danger of living in your past glory — as though that's the best you'll ever do. So you latch on. You think you need to follow that same formula to win. But that just keeps you in the past instead of opening you to the next thing available to you." — @khayadlanga
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Isi Rose
1 year
‘22 Cannes Red Carpet Style. Time to do it again. 🌼
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Isi Rose
1 year
“Remind me of what I am, please.” ♥️ — Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi
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@Babangiida1
I'm Aboki.
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Post a random picture of you in the Month of October 😍
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Isi Rose
1 month
We're officially launching our first WandaWorld children's writing course today. Two sessions, 10 students in first class & a family of 8 in second. I've had one-on-one calls with students this past week.. the vibrancy of their ideas is absolutely exhilarating. #WandaToTheWorld
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Isi Rose
2 years
“I want to be known for work that showed a deep sense of compassion for humanity, writing work that sees people. In which people truly, truly see themselves.” — Siphokazi Jonas
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Isi Rose
6 months
“everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.” — Neruda ❤️
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Joseph Fasano
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What line of poetry would you send to someone you love?
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Isi Rose
8 months
Oh man, 🥹❤️. Omama bestrato sam benzele umama isend off for her first Open Book Festival. Isn’t this just so WANDAful and sweet?!
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Isi Rose
1 month
“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rilke
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Isi Rose
1 year
“Once I became aware of myself, it occurred to me that I should add to the world's stories.” — Ama Ata Aidoo
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Isi Rose
3 years
Ohh 😍🎊, this story is absolutely amazing. ☺️💜💗 #RepresentationMatters #childrensbooks #blackhair
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Isi Rose
3 years
Editing these messages from @MabunziZimi friends has me so emotional. They all speak of your character, grace and courage. It is who you are Zimi that we are most proud. Your love for God and people. You have been born for such a time as this. ❤you!🥺 #ZimiForMissSa #MissSA2021
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Isi Rose
7 months
“A poem must burn with a truth-seeking flame and be a small symphony of language, too.” — Henri Cole
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Isi Rose
1 year
Coolest thing! I get to read — on air — with five Wanda Kid Superstars on air today on the breakfast show with @somizi . All just before the first ever #WandaWorldFest 🥳🙌🏾
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Isi Rose
2 years
I just love that everyday here you quietly share your art. It's so beautiful. I'm so blessed by it. 🥺
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Isi Rose
3 years
Indlela ebendimhle ngayo last week. Ana'zinto nina. 😆😍
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Isi Rose
3 years
Old Dalians and eQonce community cheers @MabunziZimi on her #MissSA2021 journey @Official_MissSA 🎉🥰 Voting closes at midnight today. 🎉 Please vote for our hometown girl using this link: 👇🏾 #MissSA2021 #ZimiforMissSA
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Isi Rose
1 year
How gorgeous?! 😭❤️ Toni Morrison on James Baldwin
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Isi Rose
2 years
You've honestly got to have people you can't wait to share good news with. Your "guess what?!" people. Those who light up at your victory. Celebrants!
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Isi Rose
1 year
“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.”
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Isi Rose
3 years
Yep! Today I voice over'ed 10 children's audiobooks. 9 in isiXhosa. Call me superstar asseblief. 🥳
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Tumi
3 years
Anyone actually been productive today?
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Isi Rose
3 years
I'd recommend a remarkable children's book on death by Glenn Ringtved. It's called Cry, Heart, But Never Break. It's a meditation on loss and life. Its tender & assuring, teaches kids that life is in twos: sun & rain, joy and pain, life and death. At my big age, it's helped me!
@lebomashile
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3 years
How do you explain death to your kids? How do you teach your kids not to fear if when you fear it too?
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Isi Rose
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"When the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen." — Isaiah 60:22 Humbled & honored to be part of @mailandguardian 's young 200 for 2022, selected as 1 of 7 in the Film & Media category. It's the category for meee. 😍❤🤩
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2 years
Me + Dresses 🤝🏽
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9 years & 2 days ago, I was one of several to lose a cherished friend, Thembakazi Pumeza Losi. She too could be dancing here today. Mid tearing I think this, watching other young people dance, I re-enter the circle & dance once more. For NOW, for us. Tshom'am forever & ever. 🥺❤
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Isi Rose
2 years
My favorite video on the internet rn @ZakesMda ❤🤞🏽🤩 The ant worker song in Chicharito, inspired by Hugh Masekela's Stimela.😍
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Isi Rose
2 years
Happy Birthday to My Ultimate Dream Girl. Meeeeeee 💛 🎊😝
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What amazes me about Kopano Matlwa are her decades of excellence. She personifies focus, across her literary output & deeply engaged civil societal work. She does this quietly, with earnest strength & clarity of vision. Screeched when she walked on stage. She's a gorgeous STAR!❤️
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April as a month banged banged. Traveled to Egypt with Langeni Travels & no lies, I'm joining their next tour. It was utterly WANDAful.
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"There is a path in this life with your name on it. What God means for you to have, no one can take away from you. It's already yours. Surrender — and let all else pass by." ❤
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Isi Rose
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@ThickLeeyonce I got one the other day. Someone I hadn't seen in years said: " I was thinking about you recently, you always give heartfelt hugs and I've been needing one." Aaah❤️🤗
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Isi Rose
2 years
This episode could've gone on for another hour. Prof Gqola, loudastress –distills difficult ideas to their simplest so that what seems like a large system mess is legible & changeable. Her insightful teaching enlarges your mind. Her educational responses to the audience? Healing!
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Isi Rose
3 years
My students found out about the Expresso interview tomorrow 😂. These sweet little bugglings are writing the loveliest messages in their WhatsApp group. Oh abantwana bam..❤️ Quietly smiling thinking about their messages rn. 🥰
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Isi Rose
3 years
Excuse me!? 🙌🏾🥰💃🏽😍 Our very first international starred review! Screeching. We're absolutely thrilled! Congratulations @chantelle_burgen @jacanamedia #MathaboTlali #WANDAtoTheWorld #WANDAgoesGlobal 💜
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Isi Rose
3 years
This Monday, live on @expressoshow for this year's #WorldReadAloudDay 😍
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