BLACK GIRL MAGIC:

AN ODE TO BLACK GIRLS

Billie Holiday, American musician

"Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?" Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States

"Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't." Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress

"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, between 2009 and 2010, black women earned 68 percent of all associate degrees awarded to black students, as well as 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees and 65 percent of all doctorates awarded to black students."

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"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." Maya Angelou, American poet

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love." Maya Angelou, American poet

"When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more." Florence Griffith Joyner, American track and field athlete

"Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men." Katherine Johnson, American physicist

"Always There Are The Children" how do we welcome the future not with the colonialism of the past for that is our problem not with the racism of the past for that is their problem not with the fears of our own status for history is lived not dictated we welcome the young of all groups as our own with the solid nourishment of food and warmth | - Nikki Giovanni, American poet

"We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us." Lauryn Hill, American singer-songwriter

"When the magic is real, you can feel, see and believe it." Farrah Evita, Web Developer, Actress, Model, Curator