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“The black woman is demanding a new set of female definitions and a recognition of herself of a citizen, companion and confidant, not a matriarchal villian or a step stool baby-maker.”- Linda LaRue

My Blackness and my Womanhood are inseparable. 

Too often when dealing with issues that affect women, I encounter racism or a willful ignorance to the issues facing me as a minority.

When fighting racism, my community encourages me to stand behind and uphold my men even when they do not support or protect me or my rights as a woman.

I demand recognition and equality for everything that I am: Black and female. 

I am Black feminism.

To Those Of My Sisters 
Who Kept Their Naturals”

— never to look a hot comb in the teeth

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Sisters!

I love you.
Because you love you.
Because you are erect.
Because you are also bent.
In season, stern, kind.
Crisp, soft-in season.
And you withhold.
And you extend.
And you Step out.
And you go back.
And you extend again.

Your eyes, loud-soft, with crying and with smiles,
are older than a million years,
And they are young.
You reach, in season.
And All
below the richrough righttime of your hair.

You have not bought Blondine.
You have not hailed the hot-comb recently.
You never worshipped Marilyn Monroe.
You say: Farrah’s hair is hers.
You have not wanted to be white.
Nor have you testified to adoration of that state
with the advertisement of imitation
(never successful because the hot-comb is laughing too.)

But oh the rough dark Other music!
the Real,
the Right.
The natural Respect of Self and Seal!

Sisters!

Your hair is Celebration in the world!

Love these for the natural hair ladies and the sistas with locks!! I can not WAIT to see how it would look!!

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