00:00and I want to tell the young black girls who might be watching this out here that
00:05I'm still searching and I don't always have it figured out and there are days
00:09that I feel very insecure and I feel like I failed there are days that I feel
00:15so goddamn weird and alone but I get up and I want you to know that you can and
00:20you will too black women make me feel invincible it's the way that we walk the
00:33way that we talk our soul our sway our grace our roots it's our secret
00:38language with one another the way we uplift each other at our best and our
00:44worst and junior high school actually got suspended from school over Nas what's
01:04that story I went to a Christian school I had I think it was a vibe cover of him
01:11with his godson tattoo on his stomach
01:24they haunted me and it haunted my mother and also you know the racial subtleties
01:31are not so subtle of you know what that encompasses when you say that to a black
01:40woman I was essentially being told to shut up
01:58for giving a voice to a woman like me who might not be your graceful poised
02:04soft a gentle woman and may never strive to be my journey has been a rise and
02:23fall it's been ugly it's been loud it's been disruptive it's been long it's
02:29often been painful but it's been free it's been beautiful and it's been mine
02:36I'm looking forward to the day that I greet fear wholeheartedly nose-to-nose
02:42and tell it you have met your goddamn match
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