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The Colored Girl Beautiful - E. Azalia Hackley
E. Azalia Hackley
The Colored Girl Beautiful
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4057664581150
Table of Contents
Foreword.
The Future.
The Colored Child Beautiful.
Law of Attraction—Vibrations.
Love.
Personal Appearance.
Deep Breathing.
Originality.
Youth and Maturity.
Self Control.
Her Relationship With Men.
The Religion of the Colored Girl Beautiful.
The School of the Colored Girl Beautiful.
The Home of the Colored Girl Beautiful.
The Colored Working Girl Beautiful.
The Colored Woman Beautiful.
The Colored Wife Beautiful.
The Colored Mother Beautiful.
Foreword.
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This volume has been compiled from talks given to girls in colored boarding schools. The first talk was given at the Tuskegee Institute at the request of the Dean of the Girls' Department.
It was an impromptu talk after an hour's notice. Just before the Dean closed the door to leave me alone with the girls, I repeated my question, What shall I talk about?
The reply was, Tell them anything you think they should know. They will believe an experienced woman like you who travels and knows the world and life.
As I looked at the sea of faces, wanting to know,
and as I thought of all they had to learn, the vastness of all of it almost overpowered me. May I sit down, girls? Now, what shall we talk about that is interesting to every one of you?
Would you like to talk about Love—real Love?
Yes, yes,
came the answer. Would you like to talk about Beauty—real Beauty?
Yes! Yes!
they answered and the chairs were pulled forward. For forty minutes we had a heart to heart talk. The dean and teachers had perhaps told the girls the same words, but the message seemed to come more directly to them from one who had daily contact with the great, busy world.
The talks were very informal and personal and as the girls asked questions the thought came to me to jot down the points, that similar talks might be given to the girls in other schools. Then came the request, You come so seldom, can you print the talks?
Much of the talks could not be printed because many of the questions and answers were personal.
If I had a daughter I would desire that she should know these things and more, that she might be a beacon light to her home and to the race. As I have not been blessed with a daughter, I send these thoughts to the daughters of other colored women, hoping that among them there is some new thought worthy of a racial Amen.
E. AZALIA HACKLEY.
Chicago, Ill., August, 1916.
The Future.
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The beautiful part about the colored race in America, is the future. As a mixed race we are undeveloped. We may become whatever we WILL to become.
This race is a growing people. The future is veiled but it may reveal some strange things to the world. What opportunities there are for leadership! If there were only some ways to squelch
the fakers and arouse the dreamers!
If each would only think out a different plan for race advancement, there would always be followers. Some would be attracted in one way and others reached in another way, and so carry lines of thought.
The gardener is aiming towards better vegetation. Scrubs and dwarfs are sacrificed totally to produce a more perfect plant.
The horse breeder, any animal breeder, the bird fancier, all aim to get a better breed of stock in each generation.
The cry of the hour is A better breed of babies.
As it takes several generations to breed a prize winner, it is time for the colored race to look into these things and prepare for the future colored child, handicapped as it will be. Nature needs assistance in this.
Attractiveness in appearance is a strong factor in success. A pleasing, even, charming personal appearance may be cultivated.
The mind—the gray matter—either fills the body with life or beauty, or it destroys life and beauty, according to the concentration of thought, and resulting habits.
If one were to ask, Can a leopard change its spots,
the reply must always be, No.
But if one were to ask if the Negro could change his appearance, through himself, his own will power, the answer would be, Yes,
because the Negro has a thinking brain. He may become as attractive as he wills to become.
As his taste and ideas of beauty conform to the accepted, so will he grow like these ideals and standards.
The Colored Child Beautiful.
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Every baby is beautiful to its mother. Every colored baby is generally, only cunning or cute to many of the white race who have their own ideal of baby beauty, which depends mainly upon a white skin.
Beauty is a matter of personal opinion. To a savage African, a baby with a black skin and flat nose is the ideal.
To a Chinese, a plump, yellow, slant eyed baby satisfies.
To the Esquimaux, the round faced, small eyed, black haired little one is the admired type.
A child should be taught to love and be proud of its race and to know the good points of the race.
Colored babies are born with rare physical gifts. First: They are born with the most beautiful eyes in the world. Unlike foreign children who come to this country, they seldom have sore eyes. I have visited about six hundred colored schools and have yet to see a sore eyed colored child.
The obligation of a gift is the preservation and cultivation of this gift. Little colored children should be taught to keep their eyes open and bright with intelligence and clear with good health, because the eyes are the windows of the soul. Their eyes should look straight into the eyes of others with their souls shining through. Their eyes must be kind eyes, listening eyes, observant eyes, thoughtful eyes, and remembering eyes.
Second: Colored people are credited with having the finest teeth in the world. The obligation of this gift is cleanliness and preservation of this attractive gift. A colored child