As a black woman in America’s society, beautiful Black women are often underestimated. Our value is frequently decreased by culture. Many of us conform to the depiction that society has created around and of us. There is negativity in the air; beautiful Black women are misrepresented and stereotyped. Beautiful Black women are empowered and strong but beautiful Black women are also submissive, humble, and sensitive. Beautiful Black women are underestimated and underappreciated. Beautiful Black women are daughters. Beautiful Black women are sisters. Beautiful Black women are mothers. Beautiful Black women simply are.
Beautiful Black women are educated. Beautiful Black women are intelligent. Beautiful Black women are articulate. Beautiful Black women simply are.
As a beautiful, dark-skinned black woman, I realize that I have a smart and quick mouth that supports an occasionally rolling neck with hands braced on my hips when I am angered.
However, I am also the calm, collected woman that has patience when tempers heighten and tease the possibilities of losing control. And I know how to reel it back in and ease a turbulent situation. The words that define black women fall into place like the pieces of a magnetic puzzle. Beautiful Black women are explosive when beautiful Black women love.
There are no barriers or limitations when beautiful Black women protect those that beautiful Black women care for. Beautiful Black women embody the definition that follows the word “Strong”. There are negative representations of who beautiful Black women are. Referred to as hood-rats, over-educated, and overly independent women. Callus and uncaring as a result of the extended longevity, beautiful Black women have endured in a space called “singleness”.
Beautiful Black women are also video vixens, selling ourselves short for a dollar sign. Beautiful Black women are simple and lack ambitions with no optimistic point-of-views or aspirations. Beautiful Black women sit and wait for the next government check to come. Beautiful Black women are professional, fortune five-hundred executives obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder all while neglecting to take care of the home; our families are malnourished as beautiful Black women are failing to feed them with our love and presence. Beautiful Black women are driven to make more money just so that beautiful Black women can buy bigger cars, homes, and clothes yet beautiful Black women have no one to share them with.
Beautiful Black women are single and married to our jobs. There is a void within us, and beautiful Black women fail to accept it. Beautiful Black women are control freaks. Beautiful Black women don’t need or want to be worried about; beautiful Black women don’t need to be rescued, protected, or provided for. The boogeyman doesn’t scare us, hell he is afraid of us. There is a vague line that separates all of us. While beautiful Black women are different, beautiful Black women are very much the same.
Beautiful Black women are black women, strong (regardless to rather it is on the surface or deep underneath), beautiful Black women are beautiful shades of browns; beautiful Black women are powerful, and uniquely designed. Beautiful Black women require respect. Beautiful Black women are underappreciated. Our value has been depreciated by our society. Beautiful Black women are not products of our society but instead diamonds amid our society that has slowly faded into the background. Stereotypical gestures and phrases do not define who beautiful Black women are, as beautiful Black women are far more than the illusions created by our society.
Beautiful Black women are delusional and ambitious. Beautiful Black women are beautiful regardless of our environment, circumstance, and beautiful Black women can fall a thousand times and get up and try it again, and again. Beautiful Black women are empowered, beautiful black women. It is our responsibility to shift society’s point-of-view of who and what beautiful Black women are.
