18 June 2011

Spoken.

She is bold and beautiful..cool and comical. She got a switch when she walk and a twang when she talk.  She has soul like Lauryn and the body of a coke bottle. Don't cross her because her attitude will come full throttle. She is fed up and jaded. She comes in different shades of gorgeous melanin. She goes to MAC to cover up the imperfections, but they are never faded. She is young and real and every so often she gets caught up in a deal.She is naive and resilient. She weaves her head with tracks that are too expensive to name. She wears clothes that hug her body because it's all a part of the game. She is jaded and tired from a history of shame. She is raped of her innocence and they say she's to blame. She is cool, calm and collected. She may have a baby father. She may have a few scars from when that girl hit her harder. She is amazing and free kind of like a bird. But don't call her that animal for lack of a better word. Because where she's from birds are no good. Birds and broads are disses in her hood. She is noble, passionate and intelligent. She was on scholarship at the college she went. She is attorney at law. Doctor and political figure. She is journalist and teacher and all things much bigger. She is successful yet hindered. She is has experienced decades of adversity. She has the upper hand compared to her male counterparts. 
Stereotypically she is ghetto and a mammy. Realistically she is refined and a matriarch.  Stereotypically she is over confident and loud. Realistically she is bold and proud. Stereotypically she is easily offended and intimidating. Realistically she is educated and respectable. She is more than just the stereotypes. She is every women. She is great at what she does. She is the back bone. She is the neck. She is bigger than what she is because she has plans. She has goals. She has more than the outsiders will ever know. She has culture. She has history. She has struggled more than we will see.
She is Kesha. She is Pam. She is Renee. She is Ashley. She is Alicia. She is Patricia. She is Margaret. She is Leticia. She is Michelle. She is Sasha. She is Toni. She is Moseley. She is Ntozake. She is Maya. She is Oprah. She is Black, and she is proud. She is African American. She is African, Haitian, Jamaican, Trinidadian ,Baisian, Bahamian, Dominican.
She  is from every where in the Caribbean. She is from ancestors whose skin was all different shades of brown. She is a sista', and she is proud.

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