Be your own role model

Be your own role model

Our land has been blessed with such beautiful souls who have made waves in a low tide I’m talking about the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou and Miriam Makeba just to mention a few. We love them and look up to them simply because we idolize them and say they are our role models, what is it about these women that we love? What is it that they possess that you don’t? After all they are ordinary women who were determined to make a change in society and give hope to other women.

As ordinary as you may be but best believe sister you can leave a mark and make a huge difference in society be a household name, trust me you can do it only if you put your mind to it push yourself to do more aim higher! If you can look up to someone and trust in them so much that you actually start calling them your role model than why carry on punishing yourself because you can believe in yourself as much as you believe in other people. Be your own role model starting from today achieve what people said would be impossible to achieve. There’s nothing more rewarding than reaping the fruits of your own labour hard work does pay off, let’s not be sisters who want to be spoon-fed or wait for men to do it for them.

I know sometimes it may be hard we face storms but we can overcome anything if our role models can make it why can’t we make it? Being your own role model doesn’t mean change yourself so that people can be more fond of you or more accepting, but it simply means accept yourself, carry yourself in a manner that comes across as being confident, fierce and loving. Have your own unique personality but in order to have that you need to know yourself inside out and not be tamed that’s how our role models made it! They all have something unique about them and they owned it, so why can’t we figure ourselves out? know who we are what we possess and just own it? Accept criticism from people it makes you stronger accept failure because when you get up you’ll know where to improve wear your scars because they make you fierce and confident, Woman of colour be your own role model!!   

why can't we women of colour embrace one another?

Why can’t we women of colour embrace one another?

Why is it so difficult to show a sister love? I’m not talking about your blood sister but your colour sister! What happened to the sisterhood? What happened to unity?

Hi women of colour and my soul brothers my name is Abulele Mtanase and I am a woman of colour who loves her chocolate brown skin I’m a 1^st year student at Walter Sisulu University and this blog is all about getting back the sisterhood, getting back the love for one another, embracing one another’s beauty and most importantly supporting each other and being powerful in our calling! This blog is for everyone not only a certain race or gender. It is so sad that today you can’t be successful and be a boss without being criticized physically by women! We don’t even know what the word sisterhood means anymore, we just bash each other and look down on one another. How will we be united and powerful in our calling if we can’t even support and just help groom a sister?

I don’t know where we lost it if you look at our mothers and aunts they had the sisterhood they lived it and breathed it! We don’t all we care about is our own statuses in society what we drive, what we wear, where we live and who we socialize with. It’s not wrong to worry and care about all that but love a sister how will our land be filled with fruits if we don’t sow the right seeds help a sister who is in need, there is nothing more powerful than a woman who embraces another woman’s beauty it’s just beautiful seeing a woman who is selfless and is there for other’s to lean on her. If the sisterhood is strong than we can be powerful in our calling we can achieve without being judged by other women we can do it all only if we keep the sisterhood going embracing the power that lies deep within us women!

Love yourself love your skin love your sister because in the end we all need each other let’s stop hating the success of other women and just embrace that women are making it for themselves it’s our time now let’s create a legacy as women of colour leave behind something which will benefit the next generation women of colour it’s your time now!