When First Lady Michelle Obama took to the podium at Dr. Maya Angelou's memorial service, she spoke of how Dr. Angelou inspired and affirmed her as a black woman growing up in America.
All that Black girl love in First Lady Michelle Obama's eulogy for Dr. Angelou just gave me life ETERNAL
FLOTUS is talking Blackness and Black womanhood on a national stage.
I love Michelle Obama, I swear to brown baby Jesus with the perfect fro, I love her. I appreciate her and I am proud of her.
First Lady, Michelle Obama, shutting the service down. What a celebration of beautiful strong black women. SO INSPIRED!
I love how authentically Black Michelle Obama is. She's not going through the motions and some of these White folks can't stand it.
1. When she reminded us that though the world may try to convince us otherwise, the way we were made is good enough.
2. When she spoke of how Dr. Angelou reminded us that black women are beautiful.
3. When she told us that she grew up with the same struggles brought on by the pressure to achieve an unattainable standard of beauty, just like us.
4. When she told us that she, too, knows what it feels like to have her status as a woman challenged because of who she is.
5. When she told us that we don't have to apologize for who or what we are.
6. When she illustrated how affirming and contagious one black woman's confidence can be.
7. When she reminded us again that who we are is okay.
8. And again, for good measure.
9. And again, because we can never, ever hear it too much.
#BLESSED.
