"Like The Women in my family, The Women in yours probably had the same formula in mind when they were growing us. You and I were born in the same month of the same year, groomed and molded by similar forces: warm hands, church, rules, hip-hop. Had you been given the chance to grow up, you would’ve probably discovered, like I did, those forces barely compare to the ones that shapeshift Black girls like us into less generous images."
darlene anita scott 