My previous post was written before I read Williams piece The Colored Girl, it couldn't have been better articulated. The Colored Girl in America has an inevitably hard lot in life. The Colored Girl is the cause and effect, the cause of the degradation of an entire race, while effecting racial uplift and progress in all facets, especially social, and educational. The Colored Girl has to pry doors open while other women graciously glide through those same doors of opportunities. While the Colored Girl has to vie for the respect, love, and admiration of all she looks inward to for self love, esteem, and pride. The Colored Girl is the strongest, most loving, most beautiful creature God could have created. She has not allowed the woes of life to make her bitter. For this I am proud to say, while being a Colored Girl is rough I would not have it any other way. I am a Colored Girl and I stand on the shoulders of all the Colored Women that have entered before me.
Until next time.....embrace who you are and the rich history of your foremothers
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