Because my skin has melanin to it, I know I'm beautiful,

Because I'm of African descent, I know I'm beautiful,

Because I'm an educated black woman, I know I'm beautiful,

Because I'm all natural, with my poof and curly roots, I know I'm beautiful,

Because I'm a strong-minded woman, with a broad tone of voice and I know I am blunt and have a tell-it-like-it-is attitude, I know I'm beautiful,

Because my name is French, I know I'm beautiful,

Because my name is respectable and means beyond praise, I know I'm beautiful,

Because I'm kind, outspoken, optimistic, outgoing, and hold myself to a certain standard, I know I'm beautiful,

Because I love myself more than anybody and anything in this world, and I know my worth, I know I'm beautiful,

Being beautiful is how you present yourself, how you live your life the way you want to, not by how someone else tells you.

Being beautiful is how you want to look, how you want to dress, how you want to wear your hair, not what society tells you.

Being beautiful is your attitude towards different situations.

Being beautiful is all in what you think is beautiful.

Being beautiful is how you want your style to be.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder so whatever your definition of beauty is, then that's what is.

I hear beautiful women all the time call themselves ugly and I say to them "girl you popping!" because I do not want to see them down themselves because of what others have to say.

In my twenty years of living, I learned, over time, that the word beautiful has different meanings and the most important meaning is your own.

So, to all the women in the world, young, grown, Black, White, Indian, Native American, Latino, Asian, and etc, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL and POPPING!!!!