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This is why we do our squats, girls! Last years body (left) vs. me today (right). I still have a long way to go, but I’m beyond happy that I got into weighlifting and living a clean and healthy lifestyle!

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jojje94

Notification trolling.

HOLY

I’m helping

secretsofaginger

Actual Disney Princess: Lupita Nyong’o

starshipcaptainjojo

STOP BEING SO PRETTY I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

mamachonnes

ashleighchubbybunny

Michaela DePrince

THIS IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT!

yourbigsisnissi

black ballerina excellence

glitter-and-metal

So gorgeous and elegant

vladimir-ilyich-coolyanov

Why is this important? i see a girl doing ballet, stop outlining difference, its important we just admire the skills, and afore mentioned ellegance

mamachonnes

First of all shut the fuck up and have several seats

and heres why in Michaela’s own words what she had to go through beig BLACK and still goes through

When she was around 8 and rehearsing for The Nutcracker, just a few days before the performance she was told, “I’m sorry, you can’t do it. America’s not ready for a black girl ballerina.”

For Michaela, “to say this to an 8-year-old is just devastating. It was terrible.”

When she was 9, a teacher told her mother: “I don’t like to put money into black dancers because they grow up and end up having big boobs and big hips.”

The dancer looked down at her petite figure and protested, “I don’t have boobs. I don’t get it.”

Instead of getting her down, “It makes me more determined,” she said. “Because I’ve been through so much, I know now that I can make it and I can help other kids who have been in really bad situations realize that they can make it too.”

This is why it is important, for little Black girls to see a black ballerina made it despite being discriminated against because of her skin color!!!