- Let me guess.
It started with society saying a woman
is never good enough.
They start by saying she is too short,
too tall, too fat, to gaunt,
average boobs, straight hair, thick hair, too dark,
too white, too yellow, thin lips, big booty,
too young, too old, soft voice, loud voice, too ghetto.
Society, society, sees us women
as objects of objectification.
People say a woman should be as thin and beautiful
as goddesses on a COMSO magazine,
a sculpted and muscular goddess in a Picasso painting.
The ideal woman.
People say swallow some cosmetics
to make you become more acceptable.
Suck it in to look beautiful.
Hate your body because this isn't what you should look like.
Cut yourself just to eat yourself up inside.
It's okay to compete for the ideal look
to look beautiful outside.
This is not a Kardashian problem,
this is a societal problem.
Women are conditioned to be beautifully seen.
Women are conditioned to view their bodies
from which their worth can be seen,
and then they are pressured
from being a trend-setter, risk-taker, fire-starter,
to being misjudged, misinterpreted, misrepresented.
Make no mistake.
Women have the power to socially define
their beauty ideals.
Women have the power to redefine what beautiful is.
Now don't get me wrong,
there is absolutely nothing wrong
in wanting to have a sculpted, athletic body,
or wanting to be majestic as Naomi Campbell,
or Lupita Nyong'o, or Ashley Graham.
Here it from me.
You don't need Vogue to add you to the list of the top 100
most beautiful women in the world
so you can award yourself as beautiful
because you truly are.
Be your own beautiful, be your own sexy.
We weren't all created to look the same
because we all have our inner distinct beauty.
Just do it for you.
Beauty is like a dashing song.
You have to sing to it in your own taste,
and dance to it in your own rhythm.
So please be your own beautiful.
We need to get this straight.
Society needs to stop placing its life insurance
on women's physical appearance.
Society needs to quit packaging women
as a commodity in the beauty box.
I mean, think outside the box.
We need to have a reformed description
of what beauty really is
for she can be both beautiful and intelligent,
just as Maya Angelou would say,
"She is a phenomenally phenomenal woman
who can make bright decisions,"
and let me tell you,
I know great women are are exceptionally exceptional.
But guess what, this world is like a TV screen.
It expects us to tune in,
to look like who is on it,
but we can choose to switch the lens back
and idolize ourselves.
So, switch the lens back to you,
for you are beautiful and intelligent.
Remember, God doesn't make ugly inside or outside.
So don't make out a beast in your beautiful.