as black women, too often we have to pick a side: ratchet or bougie, relaxed or natural, nicki minaj or lauryn hill. we’re assigned into these categories before we even open our mouths so it’s very important to me to exist at different points on each of these spectrum. i want to twerk and turn up at the club on saturday and host book clubs at my house on sunday. i own the right to do that. and if i want to sew a weave into my natural hair then so be it. you don’t decide who i am. i do.
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