Women Of Colour

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"Our melanin will always make us marvelous."

- A l e x a n d r a  B e l l


We are cloaked

In boundaries

Disguised as expectations.


We are dyed

In fierce splatters

Of Burgundy and Gold.


We strain

Under responsibilities

No other can hold.


We are

Women of Colour.


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