" Children of color enter into prepubescent life with the painful awareness that no matter how many changes our bodies are going through, there’s nothing about puberty that can meet standards set by white-centric, unreasonable standards of beauty. Nor is there any part of adolescent development that can counter the anti-Blackness, the stereotypes, the hypersexualization, and other issues facing marginalized communities. "

― Mikki Kendall , Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot