"Pick your head up love, your crown is falling."
Black Woman
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1: Beautiful, powerful,
resilient female of
African descent with
skin kissed by the sun.
2. Not a female dog, or a garden tool.
I've gone majority of my life watching black queens degrade themselves everyday. From having several kids back to back for a man that'll never make you his wife,
to exposing other females and boasting about the fact that you 'took her nigga',
tolerating a nigga and loving him only to get nothing in return,
Underestimating yourselves and your abilities to succeed in life,
questioning your beautiful melanin because it doesn't meet society's beauty expectations,
Marketing your bodies in the streets to these non deserving ass niggas, and overall just selling yourselves short.
I want black women to realize the power that they hold in this world by simply being the beautiful creatures they are.
Nowadays, it's rare to find one black woman encouraging another.
Everything is a competition.
Whether it's Light skin vs. Dark skin or Slim vs. Thick...
Realize that outside appearance doesn't matter. Once a person fully love themselves, there's no one in this world that can tell them that they're not worth anything.
Black women have gone years being degraded for the color of their skin, and now because of that..we use it as an excuse.
You think women like Claudette Colvin, Katherine Johnson, Maya Angelou, Misty Copeland, Michelle Obama, and so many more, let a hate-filled, white society determine what they could and could not accomplish?
No.
They pushed through no matter who refused to be in their corner.
They allowed their black excellence, courage, and strength to shine forth even when the world hoped for their lights to dimmer.
Yes, we may face much more discrimination and obstacles because of our skin color than others do, it doesn't make it right, but the world hasn't changed yet and it most likely won't.
Go out and show the world how strong, powerful, resilient, and beautiful our black queens truly are... despite of it all.
