soph-okonedo:“When we were their age,we weren’t anybody’s standard of beauty. When I was your age, I
soph-okonedo:“When we were their age,we weren’t anybody’s standard of beauty. When I was your age, I didn’t love my skin color, I didn’t love my lips. I didn’t love my nose, I didn’t love my hair. I didn’t love anything. I didn’t love my body. Because no one was choosing me—my self-esteem was determined by somebody choosing me. I used to curl my lips, and I see pictures and I look insane, but it was me trying to minimize my blackness. It all boiled down to: I need some fool to choose me and then I can be okay with being brown.” Gabrielle Union, on learning to be comfortable with herself in “Harper’s Bazaar” Dec. 2016 -- source link