00:00I incorporate self-expression by just dressing how I feel for the moment and
00:17then I get dressed according to my vibe.
00:19Whatever mood I'm in, whoever I'm embodying, literally what I wear is who I am.
00:28It's how I wear my feelings, it's how I wear my moods, and it's how I inspire other people.
00:32I just don't care.
00:34However I feel that day, I'm going to wear whatever I feel expresses how I feel that day.
00:40I just know that we all have our own individualities.
00:43We all have something that is unique about us.
00:46If you don't like it, then you can close your eyes, you can leave, you can say what you need to say,
00:50but at the end of the day, at least I'm being my true self.
00:52Criticism is going to happen.
00:54It's more so about how you react to it.
00:56I don't know, everybody should just seek whatever they want.
01:00There is no such thing as a definition of black.
01:03Black is all of this.
01:05Black is fluidity.
01:06Black is creativity.
01:07Black is black.
01:10I would tell my younger self to not care about what other people think and do what I want.
01:15The advice that I would give my younger self is to never shrink and to always expand into who I am.
01:21Originally I'm from Iowa, so I've always felt like I was different from the bunch.
01:27This is my self-expression, me just feeling like I can be myself without any judgment from myself.
01:33Because sometimes that's what happens.
01:35We judge ourselves and then you also think about how the world might judge you and then that's when things get blurry.
01:40I've been defined as weird, you know, as though it's a negative thing.
01:44I've been defined as like, oh, you are out of the box, you are not normal, you know, crazy.
01:49Especially as a woman, if you're showing too much, it's, oh, you're a whore, you're a hoe, you're easy, you're ugly, you're dark, you're black, you're this and the third.
02:05First of all, we don't have many spaces, period.
02:07We don't have many spaces that are just us, that were built for us.
02:11It gives us a space to celebrate who we are and our individuality.
02:17I can walk around and whatever I want, I can be as free as I possibly can.
02:22At this stage in my life, I would describe myself as just free.
02:25Just fucking free.
02:27That's how I would describe myself.
02:29Okay, last question, last question.
02:31Oh, perfect.
02:32Cool.
02:33Hopefully you can use those.
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