Come love, and let this journey of
o
u
r
love
take
flight so even the
gods
could envy us.
black women
Earth’s Daughter
How can you not love
the melanin the gods of Earth have
blessed me with? Even the sun was
jealous it couldn’t pierce through me.
Untitled Ninety-six
Careful what you say
in the mist of the wind. Air
travels, like gossip.
Untitled Ninety-one
I showed you too much affection
like an over watered plant
and with it
your love
withered.
— Day Sibley, Untitled Ninety-one
A Woman’s Mirror
A blessing it would be if women could
love one another instead of competing
against each other.
— Day Sibley, A Woman’s Mirror
A Woman’s Worth
The greatest sin the world forbids a woman to do, is love herself.
See, she is the wife before she is an individual. The mother who
cares for herself last. Someone’s sister or aunt. She never belongs
to herself. God forbid she does.
— Day Sibley, A Woman’s Worth
Untitled Ninety
If you keep burying your feelings
deep in the ocean
the current of the tide will spit it
back out.
— Day Sibley
I’m a womanist first
and a feminist second.
— Bee Polard
If you are friends with a person
who is racist, sexist, an abuser, etc
and you don’t act because that’s ya friend.
You are violent.
About Boss Nails…
So a while back I was watching the premiere of the new television series called “Boss Nails” a Miami nail shop owned by Dana Cody, a twenty-something-year-old black woman trying to further her business to the top. I love seeing a woman I share a commonality with to me it is very inspiring seeing someone young like me doing it big. However, there is something I found troubling in one of the scenes that I just can’t wrap my mind around.
As I was watching it was revealed that Dana is married to George Tiechner, who is the seventy-seven-year-old father of Aviva Drescher, haven’t heard of her? Does the Real Housewives of New York ring any bell? Dana talked about the issue of people immediately perceiving her relationship to her husband like she’s his whore and do you know what this fool said? “You’re my whore you are my everything” I’m dead serious!
First off, you shouldn’t think of your wife as a whore even in a light-hearted sense, you just shouldn’t. It’s bad enough that there’s an overwhelming stereotype of a black woman being seen by a white man that she automatically a hooker, and do you know what Dana did? She laughs it off! Needless to say, no partner of mine would talk to me like that Dana, don’t tolerate foolishness like that especially if that is not your character.
xo,
To’Wednesday Sibley
