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Professionally, I don't think my looks have anything to do with where I'm at. I worked hard to get here, and while it doesn't hurt to look nice, I think connections/the schools I went to/my BRAIN had a LOT more to do with it.
Personally I have experienced this to some degree- people always think that because of how I look that I will 'act' a certain way. Now that I have gone natural it's very different, but especially when I was relaxed or had braids this was the case. The fact that I'm a nice, funny person with unconventional likes and dislikes in almost everything is something that people just don't see at first. I don't stress it- I hang out with people who get me and other folks can just KIM.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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