“I had to dig deeper and know who I was, as an African American woman, and say ‘I don’t give a FUCK what she wants to see on the panel. I’M here. As brown as I am. As black and as beautiful as I am. And if I rip this hair off, yes I do have naps, and it’s OK.”
To all my Black girls out there, please know that you are loved and that you do not always have to show up for others, especially in a society that doesn’t always show up for you.
