[Applause]
I’m a spider eyes from I’m currently
living in London and usually I before
there are seven months now I’ve been
writing for I so no I I suppose I’ve
always ready I just never really knew
what to call it as for me I think spoken
wire that allows us to to share our
views of a more accessible platform
whether you want to talk about your
political agenda or how much you hate
your eggs especially the place to do
that allows these have conversations
with people that I wouldn’t usually get
to have and present it in a way that is
it’s different it’s it’s it’s more it’s
easier to digest this next piece that
I’m going is this first things are going
to do I wrote two years ago and what I
hate and love about it is how much it
still applies to me but the beauty of I
is that you’re able to to focus on your
flaws for a moment in front of people
and flip it full circle this one’s good
as stink I’ve never really been that
confident I use my words behind my floor
as my last possible the dense out of my
self-esteem my smile to let you know
what you said didn’t get to me when it
gets to me I’m 25 and the woman in the
magazine is still bugger me on a good
day I’m a size 10 mum always a 14 in
jeans because trying to fit this waist
into a pair of Topshop jeans really
misses and liest in so I taught myself I
like to go with the backup and stole
things there I use my jokes to hide my
problems are my problems to hide my
insecurities but they always seem to
sneak out when I write poetry you see I
try so hard to look like Amber Rose but
no ever try to look like me
maybe when there are way as much as my
self esteem maybe one day Mary’s hands
in the love around my stomach maybe one
fingering who lift me to a place where I
feel comfortable maybe one day be able
to the scales look I am done with you I
put on some weight on the Christmas and
haven’t been able to look at myself
properly in the mirror since it’s all
well and good my mom telling me she
doesn’t see a difference for the skill
same difference away side counting
calories but my app won’t tell me how
many calories Ramon is mac and cheese
and that’s the stuff that bothers me we
decide to take my clothes off in front
of my friends I wish I could feel
confident without a bottle of gin I wish
I could just accept the skin I’m in but
I’m constantly bombarded with images
that tell me I am NOT good enough that I
need a 32-inch weave without my eyebrows
need to be on fleek or that puzzle
should take about a week it’s funny
because I can recite the whole
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill I will to
you but none of it is to expect in all I
can hear is Nikki and Drake screaming
over the rhythm telling me how I should
look in order to fit into public opinion
does we Michael do and how it fits in a
bikini when I have been England but I
guess it’s good self-esteem
it’s an esteem of myself which I create
and no I don’t want to be a size eight
but I would like to reach a happier
place or maybe this time to realize that
these thighs hold weight I’m having your
generation on these hips and empowerment
on these lips maybe it’s time to accept
but these legs will never fit into a
European size 10 and his body will buff
out any time is totally supposed to fit
him and maybe this time to love just
expect but learn to love the skin I am
in
[Applause]
my boys I’ve always written about my own
personal and experiences I don’t know if
I can even begin to write about somebody
else’s or something that is in real
watering to me growing up I’ve never
really seen anybody that looks like me
on TV or in the cinema screens and when
you do it’s never enough a positive
image and I think the idea of
representation especially in media is
very important for the kids growing up I
don’t know if I’ve ever fully digested
that none of know people that I aspire
to or none of the people that inspired
my friends or other people that are
really poignant people in my life they
look like me they don’t like my mouth
they don’t like my now and they look
like women that I cherished and women
that I was proud of and women that that
motivated me so I wrote this next piece
probably in I would like to say in
response to that but probably more
accurately maybe to to battle that as
well this is called black girl magic
it’s easy to say know your Worth where
you’re worth has been so consistently
defined but you want to transcribe the
texture of your hair that roll it in
your hip or the way you cut your eyes
when people say she’s angry and you just
be angry it not something with any
stereotypes I am NOT an angry black
woman I’m a black woman and sometimes I
get angry but apparently that’s not okay
constantly being judged by my tone but
not actually what I say I mean we’re all
entitled to our opinions right but I’m
saying it was too loud in fact could you
just tone it down there are other people
around I have a telephone voice as
someone I used to disguise the black
on my skin because if I make my tone a
little bit softer
make my picture a little bit higher
maybe the sky some of the melanin I’m
drowning in I am loud and that’s just
because I’m trying to be heard and yes I
do try and have the last word because
you didn’t listen to the birth it’s like
we’re not allowed to be passionate or
speak with conviction it’s like we’re
not allowed to be strong we’re not
entitled to an opinion we don’t even own
our own Beauty big lips ain’t inner less
Kylie Jenner has it in a fact that make
the one guy less is Kim Kardashian black
remember in human zoos up until 1958
less the kinds of context that could
have easily been your mother standing
behind that fence being fed food by
white dudes that will never understand
the gravity behind these legs or the
weight these shoulders have held some
guests you will see me get angry if you
ever tell me that I am pretty for a
black girl while I was ill I be angry
history is taught nothing good has ever
come from this skin we are fantasize and
feta sized because everybody wants to
take a dip in some melanin but when we
get when will we get the respect we
deserve see we’re good enough for your
music videos but we need to be seen and
not heard so this is finite Erykah
Badu’s my Lauryn Hill was my Maya
Angelou’s my floette tree sisters my
Harriet Tubman’s my son de ribes my
black woman who would try on lighter but
like the dust they rise this is for my
black girls that know that they’re not
their hair or any other part of their
Anatomy this is my cracker Kings whose
dreams might not be portable but left an
imprint of our reality Sarah Reed rest
in peace as a black woman in the UK
found dead while in police custody
but in have enough testosterone to
incite already black girls you are magic
black girls you wrong black ghosts and
this time we start believing that
instead of just creating these hashtags
[Applause]
I think I used writing to exercise fight
a lot of demons are probably not the
only person that does it and it’s this
whole line tearing families to come on
stage and talk about some things that we
we might discuss usually and for three
minutes you you have to intake what I’m
saying to you and it’s tear your face in
front of us and we have to digest did
and whether it’s personal or or bigger
than me it is hearing and we have to
face it and we we have to talk about it
for example men are four times more
likely to to die by suicide
that’s all times that is our brothers
our uncle’s our dads our friends and it
is a hard thing to talk about but it is
obviously something that needs to be
discussed this a lot between i’ma give
you today I I wrote at first I think it
was more of a reaction to another
behaviour I was seeing in all different
types of math men I was coming into
contact with but happy at work or in the
poetry scene or just anywhere like and
it seemed like a pattern man what I
think at first tried to wasn’t run it
turns into an apology this is good are
you okay I’ve only ever had
conversations with your ego occasionally
you let me talk to your self-esteem but
keep him locked up on account of just
how fragile you can be you a part man
part every word that has ever broken you
pop hostel housing dreams that flew but
couldn’t afford to you are your father’s
absence you hold the heat from the anger
of every time you were told big boys
don’t cry and now you’re infertile dry
see nothing ever grows about water to
give it life you speak to be heard not
to listen you are a walking country
claims we won’t but set for your own
vision of spirit that you worship True
Religions what you fail to realize is
your truth is missing but I suppose if
you think all your strength that lies in
your fists you do anything to cut them
off when a rope holds more weight then
your words do or a bullet is the nearest
to feeling how old you have come across
I am sorry for failing to realize this
world is trying to break YouTube’s so
they put you on a pedestal then kicked
it from under you and 76 percent of all
suicides are men what does that really
mean
when killer will be killed this become
so deep-rooted in your identity that you
will turn on yourself when fights and
flights take place at the same time it
seems almost impossible to ask for help
so you man up
but here’s where perception is vital
because Manning up of the looks like and
downs are low in arms that kind of
suicidal so I will ask you and you’re
either at every given opportunity if
you’re ok because who knows how many
lives those 3 words can say
[Applause]
I’m a spider eyes from I’m currently
living in London and usually I before
there are seven months now I’ve been
writing for I so no I I suppose I’ve
always ready I just never really knew
what to call it as for me I think spoken
wire that allows us to to share our
views of a more accessible platform
whether you want to talk about your
political agenda or how much you hate
your eggs especially the place to do
that allows these have conversations
with people that I wouldn’t usually get
to have and present it in a way that is
it’s different it’s it’s it’s more it’s
easier to digest this next piece that
I’m going is this first things are going
to do I wrote two years ago and what I
hate and love about it is how much it
still applies to me but the beauty of I
is that you’re able to to focus on your
flaws for a moment in front of people
and flip it full circle this one’s good
as stink I’ve never really been that
confident I use my words behind my floor
as my last possible the dense out of my
self-esteem my smile to let you know
what you said didn’t get to me when it
gets to me I’m 25 and the woman in the
magazine is still bugger me on a good
day I’m a size 10 mum always a 14 in
jeans because trying to fit this waist
into a pair of Topshop jeans really
misses and liest in so I taught myself I
like to go with the backup and stole
things there I use my jokes to hide my
problems are my problems to hide my
insecurities but they always seem to
sneak out when I write poetry you see I
try so hard to look like Amber Rose but
no ever try to look like me
maybe when there are way as much as my
self esteem maybe one day Mary’s hands
in the love around my stomach maybe one
fingering who lift me to a place where I
feel comfortable maybe one day be able
to the scales look I am done with you I
put on some weight on the Christmas and
haven’t been able to look at myself
properly in the mirror since it’s all
well and good my mom telling me she
doesn’t see a difference for the skill
same difference away side counting
calories but my app won’t tell me how
many calories Ramon is mac and cheese
and that’s the stuff that bothers me we
decide to take my clothes off in front
of my friends I wish I could feel
confident without a bottle of gin I wish
I could just accept the skin I’m in but
I’m constantly bombarded with images
that tell me I am NOT good enough that I
need a 32-inch weave without my eyebrows
need to be on fleek or that puzzle
should take about a week it’s funny
because I can recite the whole
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill I will to
you but none of it is to expect in all I
can hear is Nikki and Drake screaming
over the rhythm telling me how I should
look in order to fit into public opinion
does we Michael do and how it fits in a
bikini when I have been England but I
guess it’s good self-esteem
it’s an esteem of myself which I create
and no I don’t want to be a size eight
but I would like to reach a happier
place or maybe this time to realize that
these thighs hold weight I’m having your
generation on these hips and empowerment
on these lips maybe it’s time to accept
but these legs will never fit into a
European size 10 and his body will buff
out any time is totally supposed to fit
him and maybe this time to love just
expect but learn to love the skin I am
in
[Applause]
my boys I’ve always written about my own
personal and experiences I don’t know if
I can even begin to write about somebody
else’s or something that is in real
watering to me growing up I’ve never
really seen anybody that looks like me
on TV or in the cinema screens and when
you do it’s never enough a positive
image and I think the idea of
representation especially in media is
very important for the kids growing up I
don’t know if I’ve ever fully digested
that none of know people that I aspire
to or none of the people that inspired
my friends or other people that are
really poignant people in my life they
look like me they don’t like my mouth
they don’t like my now and they look
like women that I cherished and women
that I was proud of and women that that
motivated me so I wrote this next piece
probably in I would like to say in
response to that but probably more
accurately maybe to to battle that as
well this is called black girl magic
it’s easy to say know your Worth where
you’re worth has been so consistently
defined but you want to transcribe the
texture of your hair that roll it in
your hip or the way you cut your eyes
when people say she’s angry and you just
be angry it not something with any
stereotypes I am NOT an angry black
woman I’m a black woman and sometimes I
get angry but apparently that’s not okay
constantly being judged by my tone but
not actually what I say I mean we’re all
entitled to our opinions right but I’m
saying it was too loud in fact could you
just tone it down there are other people
around I have a telephone voice as
someone I used to disguise the black
on my skin because if I make my tone a
little bit softer
make my picture a little bit higher
maybe the sky some of the melanin I’m
drowning in I am loud and that’s just
because I’m trying to be heard and yes I
do try and have the last word because
you didn’t listen to the birth it’s like
we’re not allowed to be passionate or
speak with conviction it’s like we’re
not allowed to be strong we’re not
entitled to an opinion we don’t even own
our own Beauty big lips ain’t inner less
Kylie Jenner has it in a fact that make
the one guy less is Kim Kardashian black
remember in human zoos up until 1958
less the kinds of context that could
have easily been your mother standing
behind that fence being fed food by
white dudes that will never understand
the gravity behind these legs or the
weight these shoulders have held some
guests you will see me get angry if you
ever tell me that I am pretty for a
black girl while I was ill I be angry
history is taught nothing good has ever
come from this skin we are fantasize and
feta sized because everybody wants to
take a dip in some melanin but when we
get when will we get the respect we
deserve see we’re good enough for your
music videos but we need to be seen and
not heard so this is finite Erykah
Badu’s my Lauryn Hill was my Maya
Angelou’s my floette tree sisters my
Harriet Tubman’s my son de ribes my
black woman who would try on lighter but
like the dust they rise this is for my
black girls that know that they’re not
their hair or any other part of their
Anatomy this is my cracker Kings whose
dreams might not be portable but left an
imprint of our reality Sarah Reed rest
in peace as a black woman in the UK
found dead while in police custody
but in have enough testosterone to
incite already black girls you are magic
black girls you wrong black ghosts and
this time we start believing that
instead of just creating these hashtags
[Applause]
I think I used writing to exercise fight
a lot of demons are probably not the
only person that does it and it’s this
whole line tearing families to come on
stage and talk about some things that we
we might discuss usually and for three
minutes you you have to intake what I’m
saying to you and it’s tear your face in
front of us and we have to digest did
and whether it’s personal or or bigger
than me it is hearing and we have to
face it and we we have to talk about it
for example men are four times more
likely to to die by suicide
that’s all times that is our brothers
our uncle’s our dads our friends and it
is a hard thing to talk about but it is
obviously something that needs to be
discussed this a lot between i’ma give
you today I I wrote at first I think it
was more of a reaction to another
behaviour I was seeing in all different
types of math men I was coming into
contact with but happy at work or in the
poetry scene or just anywhere like and
it seemed like a pattern man what I
think at first tried to wasn’t run it
turns into an apology this is good are
you okay I’ve only ever had
conversations with your ego occasionally
you let me talk to your self-esteem but
keep him locked up on account of just
how fragile you can be you a part man
part every word that has ever broken you
pop hostel housing dreams that flew but
couldn’t afford to you are your father’s
absence you hold the heat from the anger
of every time you were told big boys
don’t cry and now you’re infertile dry
see nothing ever grows about water to
give it life you speak to be heard not
to listen you are a walking country
claims we won’t but set for your own
vision of spirit that you worship True
Religions what you fail to realize is
your truth is missing but I suppose if
you think all your strength that lies in
your fists you do anything to cut them
off when a rope holds more weight then
your words do or a bullet is the nearest
to feeling how old you have come across
I am sorry for failing to realize this
world is trying to break YouTube’s so
they put you on a pedestal then kicked
it from under you and 76 percent of all
suicides are men what does that really
mean
when killer will be killed this become
so deep-rooted in your identity that you
will turn on yourself when fights and
flights take place at the same time it
seems almost impossible to ask for help
so you man up
but here’s where perception is vital
because Manning up of the looks like and
downs are low in arms that kind of
suicidal so I will ask you and you’re
either at every given opportunity if
you’re ok because who knows how many
lives those 3 words can say
[Applause]
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