In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, The Birth Of A Nation star admits she used to curl her lips and press her lips together in attempts to minimize her Blackness.
How do you navigate the question “Does this look ____ ?” or “Does this make me look _____ ?” As I mentioned in a previous diary, I’m no slouch. Some of my ex-girlfriends bring me to near tears when I see them years later looking like they just stepped off the Ms. Ivy League Black […]
Here at HelloBeautiful, we are all about loving yourself for who you really are. So why don’t celebrities promote that also? There’s nothing like some self-confidence.
Black women, we love our curves. Don’t we? We love the fact that we have hips, a booty, how our silhouette is to envy. A young woman asked me recently to write a post about women who are overweight and how they should remain confident. Now, I tried to write a sincere piece about this […]
“I’d rather be loathed for who I am than loved for who I am not.”
