00:00It felt liberating. That's what it felt. You know, you don't understand how much you try to assimilate into a culture. And through assimilation, it's sort of like erasing you. Like your palate, who you are, is wrong to begin with. And you sort of have to put on something else in order to be acceptable.
00:25When we know, we know as black women that with all sizes, all shapes, all incarnations of hair, that we still can get the guy. As many triumphs as you think I have, I also have a lot of failures and flaws.
00:42But I think my biggest success is that even through the failures and flaws, I still get back up.
00:49I still understand that my strongest suit is my vulnerability, is my mess, are my contradictions.
00:56And that's the biggest message I want black women to know, that we don't always have to have our front bond, always have to be portrayed as strong, always on top of it.
01:07Who we are in a day-to-day, the mess, the doubt, the failure, the joy, the triumph, is good enough and powerful enough.
01:18We certainly turned out the election, you know. Women did in general, but I'm very, very happy about black women.
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