We’re from beauty

Light skin, full lips, bangin’ smile

Long hair, permed hair, manicured toes and nails

Beautiful is the next Paris, Jessica, Lindsay

Beyonce’s hips, J. Lo’s behind, sexy as we know

Where I’m from, my beauty culminates from my roots, forget the follicles

My roots

My history

My people

I’m not suppressed by the ideal

I form my own judgement, my own style, my own beauty, beauty, beauty

I’m from beauty

My beauty’s from my roots

My African kings and queens

Kings and queens forced to shed blood and tears for a people who regarded them with the

Utmost hate

A hate still here, a hate still present

A hate I once felt for myself

It was inside myself that drove me away, away from my roots

My history

My people

Where I’m from

Beauty is your heritage, my heritage

No escape, no escaping, a ball and chain

A chain hat took my heritage and pushed it overboard to lighten those ships

The slave ship of oppression

I’m from “Embrace the beauty”

“Know who you are”

“Who you want to be”

“Who you want to be”

“Who you’re destined to be”

For I’m the forgotten African princess

Left to surive on unknown lands

Uncharted territories

Now that’s what I call beauty

I

Am

Beautiful

By Brittani Goodwin