Self-Care for Black Women Quotes

“Embrace your mistakes and resist the need to judge yourself; allow yourself to try something new and fail as you learn; and ask for help with a task without dictating its execution. It will be hard”
― Oludara Adeeyo, Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul

“To resist being the TBG, start by forgiving yourself for the times you behaved in a way that betrayed your true identity.”
― Oludara Adeeyo, Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul

“We adjust our tone so we don’t offend others by possibly coming off as aggressive. We withhold words because we fear that if we say something, we will be vilified. We hold the weight of speaking for all Black women with our voices, when we just want to speak for ourselves. Whew. Girl.”
― Oludara Adeeyo, Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul

“We are conditioned to be superconscious of how we speak. With hypervisibility as a Black woman comes hyperawareness. Of how you sound, how you look, how you eat, how you walk, how you breathe. It’s exhausting.”
― Oludara Adeeyo, Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul