There's COMPETITION among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of THINGS and still be from the same culture. What I'm SAYING is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black WOMAN. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home.
Read MoreYou can't go WRONG with major LIFE and death stories when it comes to a COMPETITION, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
Read MorePlagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a POEM PUBLISHED in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a GIRL who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in ALABAMA. It took months for PEOPLE to put together that this had happened.
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