How momma raised her girls
Buck up girl
Make peace with your sister
Ain't no man
Gonna to take care of you
All you got is each other
Chin up girl
If he playing
You know to learn
What he does
And beat him at his own game
Never settle for
Anything less
Than what a man
Can get
If he can do it
You can do it
Baby girl
Never let anyone tell you
What you should do
As a woman
Unclog your own **** sink
Change your own **** tyre
Pay your own **** bills
And buy your own **** rings
Want a nice dress
Go work
Want those shoes
Walk the miles
That earn them
And I have.
Sure I didn't always
Stand on my own feet
But I got my sisters and my girls
coz all we got is each other*
And sure as hell
Us girls never
Tore each other down
But build each other up
Never competing for a man
If he can't choose
On his own
That's how we kept the peace
That's how we grew strong
And there's love in the ghetto
And some girls
With a back bone
And their game face on.
"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be ****** beings in the way that boys are."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie