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 donβt 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."