When people build entire campaigns against you, they recognize your power even if YOU do not. Black womanhood has never been up for debate. It has ne
When people build entire campaigns against you, they recognize your power even if YOU do not.
Black womanhood has never been up for debate. It has never been something to prove, negotiate, or justify. The world may have tried to gaslight us, but let’s get something straight—no one has ever had the power to take away what is ours.
They knew exactly who we were when they forced us to nurse their babies, raising children who would grow up to oppress us.
They knew exactly who we were when they made us the backbone of their households, their fields, their economies—all while denying us humanity.
They knew exactly who we were when they used our bodies for gynecological experiments, slicing into us without anesthesia, claiming we didn’t feel pain.
They knew exactly who we were when they dragged us into forced sterilizations, deciding we were “unfit” to reproduce once our children would be our own and not free labor to build on violently stolen land.
They knew exactly who we were when they shoved us into menstrual huts, as if the power to create life made us untouchable.
They knew exactly who we were when they cut young girls with no anesthesia, mutilating them to control their bodies.
They knew exactly who we were when they raped us and bred our children into slavery, profiting off our pain and pretending we were less than human.
And yet, through it all, we remained whole. Not because “they” allowed it. Not because “they” accepted it.
But because Black womanhood was never in their hands to begin with. And we KNOW this.
No One Takes What They Never Had the Power to Own
They tried to redefine us, erase us, control us—but at no point in history did Black women need validation from those who hate us. We were, are, and always will be women. The first mothers. The life-bringers. The warriors. The ones who carry history on our backs and build futures with our bare hands.
We did not have to prove our womanhood to those who denied it.
We did not have to ask permission to exist.
We did not have to explain our bodies, our voices, our presence.
We were whole before the world tried to break us, and we remain whole now. No one takes Black womanhood. No one grants it. It simply is.
Affirmations for the Unbreakable Black Woman
🔥 My womanhood is not up for discussion. It never was. It never will be.
🔥 I am the blueprint, the foundation, and the future. Black women define, we do not beg.
🔥 They tried to break us, but we stood. They tried to erase us, but we remain.
🔥 I am not an experiment. I am not a vessel. I am not your laborer, your caretaker, your lesson in resilience. I am a Black woman, and that is sacred.
We Do Not Ask—We Own Ourselves
There is no conversation to be had about whether Black women are real women. That gaslighting ends here. It was always a lie, always a distraction, always a cowardly attempt to chip away at our power. But you cannot chip away at what is unshakable.
No one grants us what is already ours.
And if they don’t like that truth?
As Nikki Giovanni said, “If they don’t want you to dance, get up and move the table.”
We are the table. We are the storm. We are Black women—whole, undeniable, and beyond anyone’s reach.
***P.S. People who support ideologies built on misogyny will lose support. You say nothing when women and girls are attacked and we hear that loud and clear. Silence is an answer too.
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