Maya Angelou may have snapped to this one… 

Poet Leslé Honoré is giving Meghan Markle her flowers! The Blaxicanpoet and activist penned an original piece for Meghan Markle titled “Royal.”  Honoré shared she was inspired to write it while watching Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Markle on Sunday night.

She shared the poem on her Instagram on International Women’s Day.  The words hit hot spots on racism, colorism, misogyny, white supremacy, and through it all, Black women still rise. #wewin

It’s a much-needed message and affirmation that resonates with all women of color.  

“My daughter and I watched it, and we were screaming and hollering and throwing stuff and pressing pause,” Honoré told the Chicago Tribune. “I was writing as we were watching. It is live-tweeting with poetry, every new salacious thing I was like, ‘Oooh, gotta include this.’ My poems are always a purging of my own emotions, a protest to what anybody might say.”

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Brown girl…

Honoré is a Chicago poet. She recently self-published her first collection of essays and poems titled, Fist & Fire. Her next book will be a children’s book called Brown Girl, Brown Girl.

The book is inspired by a poem she wrote about Vice President Kamala Harris. The poem, shared on her Instagram page, went viral in January. 

Read that entire poem below: 

Brown girl brown girl
What do you see
I see a Vice President
That looks like me
Brown girl brown girl
What do you do
I fought I hoped
I spoke what was true
Brown girl brown girl
What do you know
That there are strong women
Who want me to grow
Brown girl brown girl
What do you feel
That #blackgirlmagic
Will help us all heal
Brown girl brown girl
What do you see
A world that sees my skin
before it sees me
Brown girl brown girl
Whatcha gonna do
March, fight and create
Till I make this world new
Brown girl brown girl
How are you so strong
‘Cause I got Queens in my blood
To help push me along