An ode a day for May 2014 - day 14 - To being a black girl

Being a black girl is the best thing in the world
Being a black girl has crazy complications
There is nothing like hands on hiping
There is nothing like back bone slipping
What you know about shaking it to the east
What you know about shaking it to the west
What you know about being the one
Nobody loves the best
Being a black girl is double dutch
Being a black girl is to be afraid
Of boogie men and booty snatchers
Cheers to being a black girl
Cheers to being a proud black girl
Unless you are a black girl
You don't know how hard it is to be a black girl
Do you know what it is to be something so Sunday and sinful at the same time
Do you
Black girls know
Do you know what it is like to be looked upon as a sin
Ask a black girl in the middle of her jump rope song
...a one
...a two
...a three
Ask a black girl's mirror what she talks about
Ask a black girl's journal why she moans
Have you ever been pretty but...
Have you ever been would be cute except...
Being a black girl is talking to yourself
Being a black girl being your best cheerleader
...a one
...a two
...a three
Clap hands
Stomp feet
Slap knee
Being a black girl is all this quick wit
Being a black girl is knowing how to cuss muthafuckas out when they get too close
Being a black girl is knowing when is too close
Shout out to my black girls who will cut themselves free with a stick of gum and a nappy ponytail
Being a black girl is using what you have to get what you want
Being a black girl is seeing freedom at the tunnel
I see it
Don't you see it too
Being a black girl is crying
Being a black girl is laughing and resting and resisting and fighting too
Being a black girl is being ready to do what there is to do