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If there is no black then you wouldn't​ appreciate the white...!!

Yeah , if you don't have melanin ..then you would have photophobia...!!

Then what does Racism mean..???

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strip all the air from my lungs
wash away the incandescent crimson
from wherever your hands can go
and feel my flesh raw and new
under your calloused palm

and when you are done
can you scrape some melanin
from the dusk you bury
inside your bones
and pigment me head to toe
in hues that are yours?

~ poem in the caption

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I'm not a gold,
Nor a diamond.
Yet, my melanin glitters.

I'm pure black, no cream,
No sugar...just an amino acid.

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हाँ मैं सावली हूँ !
क्योंकि भगवान ने मुझे बनाया ही ऐसा है,
गोरे , काले में अंतर करना बंद करो।

Biology says that the person who has a light colors has less amount of melanin (a hormone) and person who is dark in color has more amount of melanin....

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हुस्न का क्या काम सच्ची मोहब्बत में,
रंग सांवला भी हो तो भी यार कातिल लगता है....;

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inundated in dreams
of your silver melanin,
metallic like the sun &
matte like the moon
it bubbles & drips
unending pools of
molten mercury
I wish to drink
to quench burns
of your absence..

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why so much attention?
why people take my tension？
“you look dark these days”
hello！it's my complexion
“opps！you're not pretty”
“why？is fairness the benchmark of prettiness”
“I can't see you at night”
none can see anything in dark
and it's totally normal.

“No one will marry you”
I guess i'll be okay
“why don't you try fairness cream”
because it doesn't suit my skin
“you were too dark before，
nowadays you look a bit better”
why don't these people mind their own business。

Tan skin is just a complexion
and it won't cause recession
whether tan,fair and pale
love yourself with same zeal
people say and you should know
"kuch toh log kahenge
logo ka kaam hai kehena"
admire yourself
and let the world wonder about that
always💓

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Dear Black girl,
You're not stained.
The marvelous melanin,
Molded into you.

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... Then my melanin hugged me so tight and whispered,"Black is a colour, like any other colour."

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