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Black is beauty dangerous

Black is a colour of real kings and queens
There are thousands if not millions of songs, poems, essays and articles about black women but there can never be enough to describe them. This is a love language to black people and until they fload timelines and feeds the same way that hate and racism fload their everyday lives we haven't done enough! You see when such beauty is foreign to some they find it difficult to fathom the magical being that is a black woman, their first instinct is to slander and insult, this is how words like 'angry, ugly, loud, nappy etc,' are birthed. Then when they've completely failed at tearing them down they copy but imitation although the best form of flattery, it is never like the original. Take a moment to look at a black woman, I mean really admire every single one of those piercing features. You'll realize that what makes a black woman isn't just the richly saturated colour of her skin, or her full and luscious lips but it is how captivating she is in the way she carries herself, the way she speaks, her presence, her mannerism, her smile, even her natural resting face. She has trained herself to purse her lips and narrow her eye brows to ward off disrespect before it is thrown in her direction. But her beautiful face quickly softens when she's in her element, in complete comfortability, and when she does, my God it’s a sore sight to see. God broke the mold when he created black women, from their curly, course crowns, down to their soft, deeply saturated stunning black skin. I hope no one ever gets tired of reading, writing and reciting odes to black women because they don't equate to the hatred of other races nor desensitize their own beauty. Black women NEED to be indoctrinated with upliftment, wouldn't you if the whole world kept falling back on those harsh words to describe you? When even compliments are backhanded? "you're very beautiful for a dark girl".  How can you not be self-critical when everyone else already is of you!? How can you not want to relax your hair, bleach your skin or go under the knife to fix your 'broad nose'?! When everyone thinks "you'd look better if you did", this is to let you know that you do not have to prove anything to anyone, you already do it all so effortlessly by just existing, existing in spaces your mothers could have only dreamt of! YOU are beauty personified, YOU are raw, you are magnificance, the epitome of wonder, YOU are every single hue of strength yet so gentle. Your presence is godly, you carry your ancestors within YOU! You are the fruit of their sacrifices, you simply cannot afford to frown upon yourself when your gorgeous mothers are smiling down on YOU! an intensified carbon copy of them, YOU are your ancestors' wildest dreams! So be relentless. Continue to be brazen, be unapologetic but most importantly, be kinder to yourselves black Queens! They hate to see it.

black young woman named Malwande
Reflection of an African Queen, representing our grandmothers
sign of happiness is a smile from a beautiful black woman
Shine in the river
Africa's black beauty
Being black is honor because we come from greatness



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