For Colored Girls That Have *NOT* Had Enuf Rainbows (a listicle)

1. First, get rid of that nigga. Be them white, black, brown, or yella. 50 ways to leave a fuck boi. Because that is what he is now if he is an accomplice to your limited number of rainbows. He’s that or some monster. If the latter, you may have to kill him. But try not to — if you can.
2. Then, suss out those family members and people around you that had shit to say about you or have been doing shit, implying shit, eroding your shit. Go ahead and tell them the truth about who they’ve been fuckin with. Scream it. Then, cut em loose. If you need something from them in the future, TAKE IT. They owe you. They know it.
3. MOVE. Change states, cities, apartments, rooms, jobs, whatever. Let them find your body (living!) somewhere else.
4. Get right with God. Not the god of They or Them with his flowing hair and bloody hands, but the one in You. Go inside and find your true heart. Love it.
5. Find some fun. Any fun. Love standing around listening to YouTube while you push your kid in the baby swing? Giggle. Love dancing? Drop it low. Love bubble baths? Great, masturbate. It’s your own damn pussy. Use it. Make it do what it do.
6. When they come to you saying you’ve changed, saying you’re selfish, saying you made them feel bad, look them in the eyes so they know the threat is real and say “better you than me.” Mean it.
7. Walk away (living!) from their stupid open mouths.
8. Never think all the way through your past pain again. Let that go the way you scrapped off your social scabs. Take all those old yous in your arms and let them meet the new You. She’ll take care of y’all just fine.
9. Say to yourself: “I am nobody’s simple Queen. I am the Omega of me. I don’t rule people. I rule myself.” Then, rule yourself, paying no mind to what is behind you.
10. There are flowers buzzing honey bees and bright warm springs ahead let the sun shine on your hair your bare skin deep in your nose it’s mine it’s yours.
11. Tell all the other colored girls about what freedom brings and how (holy how!) to get it.
12. Make a list, if it helps.

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