Just finished reading "When Chickenheads Come home to Roost,"by Joan Morgan which is a creative work of Genius! My favorite chapter was entitled Chicken Head Envy which addresses the jealously that strong, independent, educated and classy women have against chicken heads, also known as the sapphires from the hood that love to mess with the local dope boys, and use their bodies to get ahead. Classy females conversely do it the hard way by getting an education, accumulating loans and struggling in a white mans world with the joy of being able to say that they did it on their own, independently! This book goes so much more indebt than what I am leading on and I am really not doing the book any justice but I will make references to it in some of the blog post to come...GENIUS! GENIUS! GENIUS!!!
"Cuz us smart, good hearted, independent girls, we’re the best. We’re out there handling our business and conquering the world and we manage to be there for them too…We got their backs. We’re the ones they call in the middle of the night. We’re like their best friends. The only thing we ask for is for them to be their best. And then its the weak girls who they choose who do the things we wouldn’t dream of-" - Joan Morgan
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