Black Girls | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

BLACK GIRLS is a visual anthology that illuminates the spectrum of advocacy for Black women in America. Directed by awar | dG1fVk5hRjcxNlVsMUU

Transcript

00:00As a black woman, trauma is not our resting place.

00:10We do not have to stay down.

00:13We need to dismantle doing it all and calling it love.

00:22I was told that I could be Granite Time, but they would not tie it to pregnancy.

00:27And to me, that just wasn't okay.

00:32There are a lot of young girls that haven't developed the resilience yet.

00:37And I thought, oh, hell no.

00:43This poem is about joy.

00:45It's not about water remnants, evaporation, or sand, or thirst, or dry fruit, or hinges,

00:51or being hung.

00:52Today, a black woman could smoke a cigarette, could laugh.

00:58This poem is about joy, how we remember it in us, always.