One day,
I will be like her.
No—
I will be me,
a force unrelenting,
the kind they’ll try to silence
but can’t,
the kind they’ll study
but never fully grasp,
a testament to the power
of speaking your name
and meaning it.

- Kaitlan C Farrior
#nikkigiovanni

One day,
I will refuse to whisper.
I will refuse to bow.
My voice will not bend to approval,
but break through walls,
crack open minds,
command space like Nikki,
her words a reckoning,
her existence a battle cry.

One day,
I will be untamed—
not molded to fit
a world too afraid of itself,
but raw,
unapologetically raw,
a storm that doesn’t ask
to be understood.
I will walk with the weight
of my ancestors in my spine,
the fire of their struggles
burning in my chest.