First and foremost, there is no such thing as talking white. Using this phrase perpetuates the stereotype that black people as a whole talk improperly • Collage of Nina Simone ℅ Victoria Villasana

Wish. Yours. Cool. All words I recite to myself, but not in the way my white friends exclaimed. I loved myself and yet there was a part of me I wanted to hide. A part of me I didn’t quite embrace.