How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
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Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.
I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
I've always been interested in masking, layering, dressing up and beautifying yourself and what that meant to black women. I've always wanted to make things that I haven't seen before.
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