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, and whose childhood home was a breeding ground for black culture. If there was anything Aretha Franklin was, it was an American. She was an integral part of the frayed fabric of United States history and she was certainly going to enforce her rights as such.Advertisement
My body is a large one. It’s made of big bones and long limbs. My flesh is a thick velvet dark cocoa-colored mass of skin that stretches and swivels with every step I take. It’s a physique that leaves no room for maybes. Someone was definitely just here, and it was me. When I get out of bed, the indents are deep, creased with almost two hundred pounds of woman, jaded insecurity, emboldened love and agonizing pain. It’s hard for me to cower on the sidelines.
She was like me in the way she wore her heart on her sleeve, like a bulletproof insignia. Her pride didn’t just come from dominating the charts but from the fact that she could soldier on with all of the broken pieces of her heart. I recognized her eyes in interviews, the weight that came with an America that treated her skin, no matter her magic and fandom, like a sufferance. She begged us to take the load off of the black woman and give it to her instead.
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