Excerpt from ‘Past Lives, Still Living’
By Jolivette Anderson

STOP whispering words of inferiority into little black girls ears
Making her think she is wrong for conceiving thoughts of
‘I can be anything and everything I want and need to be’
Don’t tell her she is too big to be beautiful
Don’t tell her she is too big to be ‘super bad’
Tell her LOVE is a four letter word
To be whispered in her ear by her Daddy
So that he be
The rock she builds her emotional home upon
The standard for which all other men
Are measured

From the book ‘Past Lives, Still Living: Traveling the Pathways to Freedom by Jolivette Anderson © 1999 She Prophecy Entertainment LLC.