When People Show You Who

This Moment Right Here, Me Standing Up Here All Brown With My Boobs And My Thursday Night Of Network Television Full Of Women Of Color, Competitive Women, Strong Women, Women Who Own Their Bodies And Whose Lives Revolve Around Their Work Instead Of Their Men, Women Who Are Big Dogs, That Could Only Be Happening Right Now.

I'm A Black Woman Every Day, And I'm Not Confused About That. I'm Not Worried About That. I Don't Need To Have A Discussion With You About How I Feel As A Black Woman, Because I Don't Feel Disempowered As A Black Woman.

We All Think We’re Going To Be Great And We Feel A Little Bit Robbed When Our Expectations Aren’t Met. But Sometimes Our Expectations Sell Us Short. Sometimes The Expected Simply Pales In Comparison To The Unexpected. You Got To Wonder Why We Cling To Our Expectations, Because The Expected Is Just What Keeps Us Steady. Standing. Still. The Expected's Just The Beginning, The Unexpected Is What Changes Our Lives.

It Can Be Scary To Find Out You've Been Wrong About Something But We Can't Be Afraid To Change Our Minds, To Accept That Things Are Different, That They'll Never Be The Same, For Better Or For Worse. We Have To Be Willing To Give Up What We Used To Believe. The More We're Willing To Accept What Is And Not What We Thought, We'll Find Ourselves Exactly Where We Belong.

When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them. I Carry That With Me A Lot. It Has Served Me Well.