Taliah Waajid
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Why don't we look within ourselves and stop waiting for someone to validate us?
And tell us what to do.
Why don't we just do it?
We are so strong as a people.
I just wish we knew the power that we had.
It would just be amazing.
It would be really new, the power that we have.
And a lot of, I know you said that, you know, we're taught some things, certain things in our community that keep us down.
So who's teaching that?
We're teaching ourselves.
And a lot of it is, you know, coming from slavery.
You know, we say these little things that it just continues to the next generation and the next generation.
You know, hair, right, for one thing.
I still hear today, you know, people telling little children, oh, yeah, you got bad hair.
You know, where does that come from?
You know, there should be nothing bad, you know, about that.
Don't stay out in the sun too long.