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You can’t allow other people to dictate how you feel about yourself. Katt Williams said it best: I can’t mess up your self-confidence because that’s how you feel about you. Nobody can mess up how Zendaya feels about Zendaya.
Feminism is about believing in the power of a woman as much as you believe in the power of anyone else, and believing in our strengths and the things we can do, and knowing we’re just as powerful, competent and strong as anybody else.
You get the best and the worst of both worlds. I know there were a lot of times when you try to figure out where you fit in. I just realized that it worked to my advantage because I just got along with a lot of people. But to literally be two races, it’s really hard to see color because I’m the gray area. I had to learn about both sides of myself and be really proud of and educated in both. I think that’s why I’m comfortable with myself and can speak on certain issues because I’ve taken the time, or my parents have taken the time, to teach me who I am.
It’s so hard for women to be happy for each other, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you’ve found true SELF happiness.
“First of all, braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time, and that’s another part of the frustration. We’ve been using that as a protective style, as a hairstyle. That’s been in our culture and our community for a very long time. So it’s not this new, fresh, fun thing. Another problem is it became new and fresh and fun, because it was on someone else other than a black woman. You know what I mean? So that is the frustration. That’s where the culture appropriation element comes into play.”
carefree black girls → zendaya
Zendaya photographed for iHeartRadio (2016)
Honestly, I’m just waiting for The Incredibles 2. I’ve waited too long.
[Olivia Pope] makes you want to wear long, white gloves for no reason, you know? And, like, be in a trench coat and just stomp down a long hallway.
“When you feel like stepping down never forget who’s looking up to you.”
There’s no person who you can tell me is the most beautiful person in the world, because that’s an opinion. I’ve been raised to think there are a million different kinds of beauty, because everyone has it — whether they choose to see it or not.
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I’m a tomboy at heart, too.
