“Black Women Are The Mules Of The Earth”
This is a quote from Zora Neale Hurston who spoke through the heroine Janie Crawford in her 1937 book “Their Eyes are watching God”
There is a gross misconception in the world that Black women are supposed to be everything for everyone. We are expected to be rocks that hold it down, powerful voices of truth, and patient educators even in the face of endless adversity. While #BlackGirlMagic is real and Black women are incredible, some people seem to think Black women are here on Earth to endlessly do work for other people.
As black women we are overworked, under-valued, and still expected to carry the burdens of everybody else, both within and outside of our communities.
The eyes in the painting capture the effect of this label on the black female psyche in the modern world, they ask you to think how these label effects the concept of self.
