My Body Affirmations By Audience at Mother Tongue Monologues 2012 My body, my journey, My journey of growth, utilizing voice, self-love, community-love,

transformation, love of justice and action, and continued connection to my ancestors and my country. All this and more manifested in this physical space which also holds my spiritual soul. My body, my journey which includes who I choose to join with on my many journeys and who I choose to allow to connect to this body and spirit. "My body, My own... is beautifully brown, plump and round, and definitely my home, because it is my very own!" My body my choice, my body my voice not to be silenced but to be amplified with truth, love and freedom. My Body, My Game to Name My body is my machine. My Body, My Freedom My Body, My Place To Do and Not Do Whatever I Want With It! My body, my priority. My first love is a love for me. I seek to be whole and to be healthy. My body is me. My Body, My Instrument My Body, My Story...to create, write, and share in my own words and damn sure, on my own terms. My Body, My life source My Body, My Altarso deserving of worship My Body, MY BODY!!! My Body, Just that, MINE My Body, My Right to Protect and Defend Myself My body, My Sanctuary My Body. My r/evolution(s) My Body, My Journey My Body, My Gratitude My Body, My Choice

My Body, My Rights My body, my STORY! My Body, My Space My Body, My Treasure My Body, My Spirit, My Soul My Body, My Rights My Body, My Voice My Body, My Refusal to be Immobilized My body is the road map to my own liberation... In this lifetime, my body is a part of a continuum of unknown and known Black women who lived at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation. These women prayed for, meditated for, fought for, died for peace, love, justice, and equality for all. I literally and metaphorically stand on their shoulders knowing that I have a responsibility to take it to the next level for my known and unknown (blood and spirit) descendants. My body, my vehicle to give voice, to agitate, to rail against all the systems of oppression that end in "ism", and those that don't; systems spawned by colonization, imperialist, neocolonial and transnational exploitation and the every day, in my backyard, in my face micro-aggressions that everyone seems to be so danm ok about. My Body, My Cause My Body, My Flaws My Body, My Choice My Body, My Temple. DIVINE My Body, My Love My Body, My Soul My Body, My Heart My Body, My Home My Body, My Boundaries My Body, My Vessel

My Body, My, Nectar, My Fruit My Body, My Revolution My Body, My Bravery My Body, My Life My Body, My Rights My Body, My Power My Body, My Pleasure My Body, My Fuckin! My Body, My MIND! My Body, My Wisdom My Body, My Freedom My Body, Mine My Body, Belongs to me My Body, My Femininity My Body, My Voice My Body, My Dignity My Body, My Life My Body, My Love My Body, My Freedom My Body, My Decision My Body, My Tia My Body, My Mind, Self & Education are things which can never be taken from me My Body, Not Yours My Body, Is my Power My Body, My Divinity My Body, My Footprint My Body, My Autonomy My Body, My Gender My Body, My Womanhood My Body, My Instrument My Body, My Vision My Body, My Decolonized Mind My Body, My Independence My Body, My Soft, Warm, Hard, Powerful