I discovered by beauty and power when I started to be proud of my skin and culture. I grew up in France hating myself because of the way black women were marginalized. I used to hate my blackness as a teen. I really had to do some research and work on myself because I was so tired of pretending. I started to acknowledge my beauty as a black woman.
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