PSYCHOLOGY|CULTURE|RACE

Black Females Feel Deeply Too — One Sentence Packed A Punch That Knocked Me Cold

My family and culture were trying to protect me but ended up burying and almost killing the parts of me I now love most

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For the past few days, I have been thinking about this:

“write about what it’s like to find yourself within the invisible confines of sentences.”

It’s from a prompt that Diana C. shared in the publication Know Thyself, Heal Thyself to which Misty Rae choose to write a story.

“Well, I only need one sentence. It’s short. It’s sweet. It sounds beautifully humble on its face. And it ruined my life for over 40 years. There’s always someone better.”

The Sentence That Ruined My Life

I could identify with her words that were said to me in other ways by multiple people in my family and community:

“Don’t think you’re too good for…