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woman, especially a black woman, should have to do anything to keep anything;
His height, his sturdiness, behind her was what she needed. It was what every woman needed… a man to carry the weight when it got too heavy. Too many black queens were forced to play the role of king because of the absence of the men in
their lives.
it’s the rocks with the most flaws that turn into the finest diamonds.”
A woman couldn’t change a man. He had to change himself. For the right woman, he would.
“A man that have you cooking food he doesn’t provide is not a man,”
A man without a woman was half of a man, emotionally stunted, and overcompensating in every area of his life to make up for what he lacked in companionship. A king could not reign without a queen to keep him strong. If man was the walls of a house, holding everything up, bearing the weight of all that inhabited it, his woman was the foundation. You could tear down walls, but a foundation was rock solid.
