Women instinctively read the danger written upon the city. 

You think you're so smart.

On Beyoncé's "Hold Up."

We are pleased. 

Prince Rogers Nelson was the blueprint for a certain kind of Black femmeness. In the interstitial spaces of my life, he has kept me company. 

I felt, at once, embarrassed to be laid off, sad about the ending of something great in my life, bitter about what was happening, and completely bewildered as to what I was supposed to do next.