You be the nice teacher.”Īnd this is not only how you lift a child’s spirit, it’s how you show them a better world is possible. “So guess what, when you become the teacher, you don’t be mean. And you gonna grow up and you gonna be everything that you can be. Black is beautiful, and if don’t nobody ever tell you. When you go to school tomorrow, you gonna be like ‘oh look at my hair, oh look at my shoes'…Baby girl you are beautiful. How many people got two dimples? You got two dimples! Look at them pretty white teeth!” “You have this beautiful chocolate skin…you got these dimples. “You are so pretty,” mom repeats over and over again, trying to deprogram the negative self-talk.
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