Patricia Smith What it's like to be a black girl?
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It is simply to be a girl! A girl is a girl no matter her roots: hispanic, asiatic, caucasian... The needs, the capabilities, the dreams are pretty similar. Of course there are individual differences but essentially it is the same.
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The first answer will be made by a girl. I promise.\n\nBut a negro is also OK.
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I actually just read an article written by a black woman about how she was tired of men assuming she was just some big-lipped, big-butt sex object.  Whenever guys payed her compliments (especially white males) it usually had something to do with how they were "into her chocolate love" or "wanted a black girl to boss them around in bed" or something else racist and degrading.  She wished people could just tell her something nice without pointing out that she was black.  How about we just compliment people for who they are and forget their skin-color-stereostypes?  There are millions of nice things that can be said of all women, and each woman is different -- they are all beatifully and wonderfully made; they are individuals.
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She would be black the black gene is more dominant.... I am currently pregnant with a mixed baby (black&#92;white)... my spouse and I have discussed this several times.\n\n\nSorry to say but society does not see her as a "mixed" girl they see her as a black girl.
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the skin color dosent matter its all about the girl
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Honey, I do know what it feels like. It's a little alienating and lonely but you have to remember that it's just a job and you don't have to take it home with you. You also may be the door opener for many other black men and women in the company. Never show fear or discomfort. Walk in with your head high and know that you got the job because you were best suited for the position and not because of your race!
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Yep, then I remember that I'm looking into a mirror. Interesting question, some of the greatest prejudices against black people exists amongst black people.
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She is an African American author and feminist.\n\nShe won a Puylitzer prize for The Color Purple.\n\nWalker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, United States.\n\nHer family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage.\n\nAfter high school, Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.\n\nShe graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Bronxville postal zone), New York. \n\nShe spent a summer as an exchange student in Uganda.\n\nShe was married to activist Mel Leventhal from 1967 to 1976.\n\nShe has a daughter, Rebecca Walker (also a prominent activist and writer).\n\nHer first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence. \n\nShe took a brief sabbatical from writing when she and Leventhal lived in Mississippi and worked in the U.S. civil rights movement.\n\nWalker's first work of fiction, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, was published in 1970.\n\nIn 1976, Walker's second novel, Meridian, was published. The novel dealt with activist workers in the South during the civil rights movement, and closely paralleled some of Walker's own experiences\n\nWalker became a political activist, in part due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College.   She spent several years in the 1960s working specifically as a civil rights activist, and continues to be an advocate for civil rights for all people.\n\nShe is active in environmental, feminist, and animal rights causes, and has campaigned against female genital mutilation.\n\nShe is also an advocate for the country of Cuba, and has spoken openly about ending the decades-long embargo against Cuba. Walker has visited Cuba on several occasions.\n\nWalker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred Spirits", published in Esquire magazine in August of 1985.\n\nThe Color Purple Walker not only won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983, but also the American Book Award.\n\nHer book "The Same River Twice" was an autobiography of sorts, discussing specific events in Walker's life, as well as the perspective of experiencing reaction to "The Color Purple" twice, once as a book and then as the movie was made.\n\nWalker has chronicled her struggle with Lyme disease.\n\nShe has also received a number of other awards for her body of work, including:\n\nThe Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts \nThe Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters \nThe Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship \nThe Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York \n\nI hope this helps.
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female: short, pinstriped jacket, white,crisply ironed shirt, black slacks, matching jacket.   (hair in a bun), pencil poised, slightly pissed off expression.\nMale: who cares?
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no, it's a high school girl thing that only white preppy girls do...sorry, but it's true...or black girls trying to be white...they will stop when they get to college because it's not cute at all.
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I have never been but I know there is a book that was published specifically for Black women travelers.  I think it is titled Go Girl. http://www.ugogurl.com/book_1.php\n\nCheck out this site: http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0501/solo_black_woman_travel_in_europe.shtml\n\nI think though, if you remember to be smart and to not go into it afraid you will be just fine and have a great time.\n\nWishing you all the best. :)
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I'm the only Black American on my job. I'm female. I get so much respect from my co-workers until it's not even funny! We all get along. There is no racial tension at all. No jokes about race. I just happen to be working with some of the most maturest professionals that I have ever had the opportunity of working with in my entire life. They consider me a DIVA! Plus Working with all men is a plus! I prefer working with just men because women can be so catty. They do the click thing and I'm not about it. I'm not saying that I can't get along with women. It's just that if you're the only woman on the job, and you've got a great bunch of men around you. You pretty much can't beat it!
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Surely the real question should be 'what is it in you that finds black people intimidating?'  and then 'why is that?'
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I went to prom with a black girl. It's natural to be more attracted to the kinds of faces with which you are familiar, so I can't say that I am as attracted to black girls as I am to white girls. But I've known a few whom I found very attractive.\n\nOh yeah, and my sister married a black man.\n\n(P.S. Did you know you can click on the [Add Details] button to ask answerers for clarification?)
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I can't speak for all black women, but I know I do.\n\nIt's nice, firm and round ( not flat and flabby) and to top it off, a slim waist and flat stomach.\n\nPeople try to downplay the beauty of black women, but deep down, they're insecure.\n\nI'll never be ashamed of how I look.
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Adriana Lima... to be in her body... live like a star for day...wake up very early for photoshoot with notible photographers...experience a runway fashion show...dressing up in glamourous designer outfits...getting hair and make-up done... dining with other celebrities... partying VIP style...
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I'd rather be called black