Woman Thou Art GREAT
"Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve
greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them." -William
Shakespeare You are GREAT! No matter what aspersions have been
cast upon you by either yourself or by others, you were born for
GREATNESS. Greatness is within you Woman. It is true. Deep
within every woman alive is the seed of the awareness of her
queenhood. In her soul every woman knows that she is infinitely
more than the prime cuts of meat that popular culture attempts
to dissect females into. I know this because I live this. As a
child I was never accepted. I was called ugly, useless, "black"
& stupid. I was the offspring of a domestically violent
household. My mother eventually escaped with my siblings and I
to live on welfare and government cheese in Detroit City. By 15
my virginity was stolen from me by a 24 year old child rapist.
By 16 I was drinking and trying to forget myself. By 17 I was
suicidal. By the age of 18 wounded by a difficult childhood and
troubled teenaged years, I got pregnant with the first of my 3
children. I was a mess...yet there was GREATNESS within that
mess. GREATNESS is within you too. In order to be useful to you,
I had to go through a process. This process was very painful. In
this process I might have perished. It continues. This process
is more commonly known as "life." My demise, however, though
supported by this world, was not sanctioned by the Universe. By
God I am still here. You could have died before reaching and
reading these words, yet you are still here. We are here! We
have arrived in this moment for a reason and with a divine
Purpose. When you learn... Teach When you get... Give -Maya
Angelou, Our Grandmothers When I was just a little brown baby
girl hiding and cringing in the closet listening to my mama
being beaten, GREATNESS was within me. When I was just a skinny
little 15 year old Black girl in Detroit City being physically
threatened, emotionally annihilated and spiritually devastated,
GREATNESS was within me. I was a Queen, but I did not know it
yet. When I wallowed in despair weeping as a young adult in the
wake of self-destruction and negativity, GREATNESS was within me
but I did not know it yet. When I cried alone as a poverty
stricken unwed teenaged mother, GREATNESS was within me but I
did not know it yet. As I bore the weight of being a divorced
single parent of three children thumbing through my food-stamps,
GREATNESS was within me but I did not know it yet. While lying
up under benighted males in search of love and validation as a
lost woman, GREATNESS was within me but I did not know it yet.
As I walked across the stage to collect my BA then my MA
degrees, thinking that they were legitimizing me, true GREATNESS
was within me, I thought I knew but I did not know true
GREATNESS yet. God knew it though. My Purpose is to proclaim the
Creator's gift of GREATNESS within YOU as I reveal it within
myself. No one, no, nor no one million ones dare deny me God, I
go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand. -Maya Angelou, Our
Grandmothers I have suffered. You have suffered. Women have
suffered uniquely in patriarchal society. With women of color,
the double whammy of simultaneous sexism and racism can be
particularly devastating. Let us consider the resultant
GREATNESS of women who have gone through great trials and
lessons. Everyone who has achieved any substantive modicum of
greatness has suffered in one way or another. Our pain makes
human. Overcoming our suffering through perseverance, grace,
wisdom and determination exemplifies triumph over adversity.
This is how we tap into the inexhaustible Source. Our suffering
becomes our strength. This strength is our gift from the Creator
to the rest of the world. ... All my life I have always known I
was born to greatness. -OPRAH WINFREY It's time to reclaim your
rightful inheritance. Ascend the throne beloved daughter of the
most high God. Your prison is an illusion. Your smallness is a
lie. God sent you here directly from Heaven. Woman thou art
loosed. Woman thou art beautiful. Woman thou art loved. Woman
thou art powerful. Woman thou art safe. Woman thou art
successful. Woman thou art free... Woman thou art GREAT!