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Being Yourself with Kathryn Finney

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

The Value of Non-Conformity

I think America has non-conformity pride. We know we're very conformist, which is so weird to me. I come from a group of people who are entire lives told not to be ourselves. So there comes a point particularly in almost every black woman I know, we're just like, ah, screw it. I'm just going to be me. It seems magical, but we're just being ourselves because we're not going to fit in your box anyway.

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