from the mouths of beauties: staceyann chin

"... i want to go down in history in a chapter marked "miscellaneous" because the writers could find no other way to categorize me  in this world where classification is key i want to erase the straight lines so i can be me!"

poet and spoken word artist extraordinaire, Staceyann Chin

from the mouths of beauties: watoto from the nile

"My daddy tells me I'm a queen

But you call women other things

It makes me mad

I can't pretend

Sir, don't call me out my name again"

snippet from the thorough (yet, still fully respectful) reading served a couple of weeks ago in Open Letter to Lil' Wayne by Watoto From the Nile. Mn!

from the mouths of beauties: anais nin

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

Anais Nin

from the mouths of beauties: dr. maya angelou

"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size

But when I start to tell them,

They think I'm telling lies.

I say,

It's in the reach of my arms

The span of my hips,

The stride of my step,

The curl of my lips.

I'm a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That's me." 

— Maya Angelou (Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women)

from the mouths of beauties: paulina

"Personally, I believe that every woman in the world is beautiful. Sometimes the distribution of her attributes is not immediately apparent; sometimes it’s a little uneven, but if she knew how to celebrate the things she was given, whether it’s a beautiful pair of eyes or legs, or intellect, or a sense of humor­– she could see how uniquely beautiful she was."

Paulina Porizkova