Beyond Survival: It’s Time for Black Women and Girls to Lead the Future

 My words aren't for validation—they’re for liberation.

We, as Black women and girls, are standing at a pivotal point in time. A moment full of opportunity. A moment calling us to shape a future that reflects who we truly are. But no one outside of us can speak to this shift.

We are the standard-setters. The blueprint. The origin. And yet, we’ve spent generations pouring into everyone else—empowering the world—while deeply underestimating our own power. That stops now.

We’ve been trying to change society’s systems—political, communal, cultural—through reason, through voice, through logic. But let’s be honest: it hasn’t worked. Not because we aren’t powerful, but because we’ve been playing within rules designed to keep us small.

It’s time to go beyond the illusion. Beyond what’s “reasonable.”
Beyond what’s been handed to us.
It’s time to go within.
To remember who we are.
To become solution-focused, future-oriented, and self-preserving.

We are not powerless. We are the power.
When something moves, it’s because we moved it.
When culture shifts, it’s because we sparked it.
When creation happens, it’s because we birthed it.

If we keep thinking in terms of "right now," we’ll keep getting left behind.
Our advantage is in the future—in our ability to see it, shape it, and build it ourselves.
We’re not waiting on saviors.
We are the saviors.
Not because we need saving, but because we were designed to solve.

It’s time to alchemize the frustration.
Transmute pain into power.
Turn the overlooked into opportunity.

I’m focused on real solutions for Black women and girls—because we are the solution.
We are the source.
We are the ones.

So let’s stop asking. Let’s stop waiting.
Let’s create, elevate, and reclaim.
The future is wide open.
The power has always been ours.