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This is especially crucial for Black people, who have and continue to use the trappings of fashion to signal success, self-worth and pride.

For if we are too proud, too puffed up with self-worth, especially now, when we’re encircled by the sea’s embrace, in future time we’ll look like total fools.

If you’re someone who knows your self-worth and you know that your role doesn’t define you, you’re not going to bend over backward.

All these women have done all week is snark at one another and talk behind each others’ backs, and now Laurie wants to tether her sense of self-worth to them?

If I’m being honest, much of my self-worth and identity came from that position I treasured so much.”