Kai Davis - "Ain't I a Woman"

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  • čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
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Komentáře • 537

  • @evtheblooper2454
    @evtheblooper2454 Před 8 lety +788

    "Lemme tell you bout this fuck shit" I'm listening

  • @Thobza_Mhlongo
    @Thobza_Mhlongo Před 7 lety +634

    "Too black to be a woman, and not man enough to be black" that line snatched my soul

  • @lilbihxxx1234
    @lilbihxxx1234 Před 8 lety +2706

    “So...I'm black" **crowd starts cheering** 😂😂😂

    • @iAzaria
      @iAzaria Před 7 lety +106

      XxxlilmizzzxxX Me when I walk in to my school full of white girls xD aha

    • @me-cp7he
      @me-cp7he Před 6 lety +52

      XxxlilmizzzxxX that "no way" "that's what I said " got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ShesChinaLi
      @ShesChinaLi Před 6 lety +5

      💁🏾‍♀️👸🏾

    • @titilayoanoma7842
      @titilayoanoma7842 Před 5 lety +7

      @chrislever12 how

    • @laleebean7424
      @laleebean7424 Před 5 lety +1

      chrislever12 no it’s not-

  • @RedMan24OO
    @RedMan24OO Před 8 lety +568

    "Soo, I'm black." *crowd goes fucking nuts*

  • @milehin333
    @milehin333 Před 8 lety +595

    "Too Black to be a Woman, and not Man enough to be Black"
    To be a black woman, that line got me thinking

  • @BabvBlues
    @BabvBlues Před 8 lety +697

    I love Kai so much

    • @kaimonington
      @kaimonington Před 8 lety +3

      +Howsenselessdeath Howpreciouslife

    • @havenhorton12
      @havenhorton12 Před 8 lety +1

      OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

    • @cloudboybebop
      @cloudboybebop Před 8 lety

      Me too!I also followed the link in your video to find her!Been obsessed with her since!

    • @kaimonington
      @kaimonington Před 8 lety

      Madelyn DeGraffenreid I'm right here you know

    • @cloudboybebop
      @cloudboybebop Před 8 lety

      +Kai Hammond Haha.But seriously,I am in love with your poetry.
      It's amazing,inspiring,and just over all awesome.
      Sorry for talkin about you like you're not there,didn't see your comments until after I typed that.
      Love all around!😙

  • @sadetucker2094
    @sadetucker2094 Před 8 lety +848

    Her mind is beautiful....😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @ZiggyKrueger
      @ZiggyKrueger Před 8 lety +1

      +Sade Tucker She's an idiot

    • @JordanT979
      @JordanT979 Před 8 lety +7

      +THEWALRUSBALL Oh wow so are you

    • @ZiggyKrueger
      @ZiggyKrueger Před 8 lety +1

      Jordan Teliaferro Hahaha!! Witty

    • @MissNayNay
      @MissNayNay Před 7 lety +18

      Isn't it? :^) I hope she'll write a book one day.

    • @star468star468
      @star468star468 Před 6 lety

      lol you gotta do better than that nowadays.... that was weak.

  • @woas_hellzone
    @woas_hellzone Před 7 lety +95

    "Ain't this my middle finger?"
    You're my new favorite human

  • @maddie.bolland.7
    @maddie.bolland.7 Před 7 lety +181

    She is so enthralling to listen to! I didn't even recognize the six minutes going by, I was too busy listening to her! Beautiful, hilarious woman!!

    • @PutBoxOnMe
      @PutBoxOnMe Před 6 lety

      Maddie Bolland I didn’t notice that it was six minutes until I read your comment 😂

  • @belafricanagrl9389
    @belafricanagrl9389 Před 8 lety +373

    "Ain't I Liberia?" Thank you for recognizing us sis.

  • @monsterlovefreak3
    @monsterlovefreak3 Před 8 lety +289

    Her mind is beautiful and so is she.....

  • @lovea.7352
    @lovea.7352 Před 7 lety +136

    "Wear my lips, ass and hair like a costume" favorite line, cause it's so true

    • @kleeamd8274
      @kleeamd8274 Před 4 lety +1

      Like black women don't dye their hair blonde, straighten their hair, bleach their skin. GMAFB

    • @keekeeheehee3773
      @keekeeheehee3773 Před 3 lety +5

      kleeamd82 we don’t wanna be y’all ... y’all forget y’all don’t have culture

    • @P.Mon432
      @P.Mon432 Před 3 lety +4

      @@kleeamd8274 for years we were told we weren’t beautiful being manipulated into thinking that and being forced to change the way we look to fit in imprinting that message into our children to make things easy and then passing it down now that black women are final accepting themselves and their culture is amazing then for a white women to go and take that away and wear us like a costume it’s infuriating I get that people now see our beauty it’s nice but you can appreciate without appropriating

    • @kleeamd8274
      @kleeamd8274 Před 3 lety

      @@keekeeheehee3773 yeah.......ok. my family is Italian-american, Italians don't have their own culture??
      Irish-Americans don't have their own culture? German-Americans don't have their own culture? French-Americans don't have their own culture?
      How ironic that you sound more ignorant than the people you accuse of ignorance

    • @kleeamd8274
      @kleeamd8274 Před 3 lety

      @@P.Mon432 nobody's wearing you like a costume..... such bs. Everywhere in the world, people are influenced by and have admired other people's nationalities, cultures and styles. Ever since the beginning of time, explorers who travelled to other lands and countries brought back with them some of the traditions, fashions, foods, lifestyles etc.
      Especially in America, the great melting pot, where everyone's culture at some point rubs off on everyone else. Americans are also heavily influenced by pop culture and celebrities, celebrities whose beauty is idoloizedand made to be the societal standard whether they are black or white, and the public wants to dress, act and be like them.
      So save it with the SJW BS . Culture, traditions, fashions of every nationality have been shared, copied, borrowed and admired over time since the dawn of time.
      The eyeliner women everywhere today wear was borrowed from Egyptian Queen Cleopatra - if you're not Egyptian, will you continue wearing eyeliner?
      Corsets and braziers were borrowed from the French - should women who are not of French lineage stop wearing bras and lingerie?
      Italian explorer Marco Polo brought back pasta from China - should we, who arent Chinese, stop eating spaghetti? Should we stop eating Chinese food? Should non-Italians stop eating pizza?
      In Ancient Greece, curly hair was the epitome of beauty, so much so, that wigs were made popular in 17th century Europe by King Louis XIV of France, where everyone all went absolutely mad for wigs that gave them big, dramatically voluminous hair.
      Modern bathrobes are derived from Japanese kimonos - should
      non-Japanese stop wearing them?
      The examples go on and on. Where is the line drawn?
      The exchange of ideas, styles, and traditions is one of the tenets and joys of a modern, multicultural society. Throughout human history, when groups have come together, they have imitated each other. Typically, this is seen as progressive. Of course "culture appropriation" can be negative, if it's done mockingly. But the way you describe it seems likes it being done out of admiration. Most people
      consider imitation a form of flattery. It's virtually impossible for different groups to live together and yet primly refrain from imitating what’s good or interesting about one another. Shared commonality and adoration is what brings about unity. It was the shared enjoyment, between blacks & whites, of rhythm & blues music that helped to end segregation, as black & whites congregated together at these venues.
      Also, last time I checked, blacks didn't have big asses and full lips on lock. I've seen plenty of white ladies with naturally big asses and full lips and plenty of black women with pancake asses and thin lips. It all comes down to genetics, body type and where on the body fat accumulates.

  • @lunab.7858
    @lunab.7858 Před 6 lety +26

    Kai Davis is everything and more. Protect her at all costs.

  • @zosialee7000
    @zosialee7000 Před 4 lety +19

    If this girl doesnt become a comedian idk why. She is amazing

  • @jennyjoseph778
    @jennyjoseph778 Před 7 lety +12

    Ain't this Haiti? I almost cried, girl. Thanks for including my country in this beautiful performance

  • @GoodVibes-xv7hx
    @GoodVibes-xv7hx Před 8 lety +50

    I have fell in love with her words, her thought process is something I wish I had

  • @bludelight
    @bludelight Před 7 lety +112

    I have a friend that keeps say that there is not one less protected and more disrespected than the black woman. I hate how correct she is.

    • @SleighJessi
      @SleighJessi Před 5 lety +7

      Jasmin Gentry Brother Malcolm said that in his Autobiography. It’s still true today, sadly

  • @Maybebabya
    @Maybebabya Před 8 lety +74

    Wish I could have had her back in that classroom. I know what that's like. Love her poetry. It's so real.

  • @Qui7422
    @Qui7422 Před 8 lety +91

    her mind is beautifully open

  • @uasorakamusuvise9107
    @uasorakamusuvise9107 Před 5 lety +5

    Damn...She's so powerful.She just made me see a whole different world.

  • @LeeMajikija
    @LeeMajikija Před 8 lety +13

    I been proud of procrastinating online ever since I came across a clip of Kai Davis about 2 or 3 years ago! She's FIRE!

  • @yahyahflawless4411
    @yahyahflawless4411 Před 7 lety +5

    When I tell you i cried real tears. This was absolutely beautiful, Amazing!

  • @quanna.j
    @quanna.j Před 7 lety +18

    Kia Davis,Porsha O, Crystal V. Are life

  • @cassied.6731
    @cassied.6731 Před 3 lety +8

    This teacher never read Kimberle Crenshaw, did he. She's so iconic, she invented the idea of intersectionality which was initially created around the idea that black women are intersectionally oppressed in ways that black men and white women aren't. Shes so so good.

  • @gilahfish3589
    @gilahfish3589 Před 6 lety +15

    i am so glad to hear this perspective - its been hard for me because i am a minority of sorts but for me feminism is a harder driving force, for me personally - i understand the need to be separated in the sense that there are separate needs but unity is important too - we can share in our similarities and learn from our differences

  • @kittyalana2583
    @kittyalana2583 Před 8 lety +74

    so in love with her

  • @AlmiMansaray
    @AlmiMansaray Před 8 lety +3

    Every word she says is so powerful. I need her poetry in my life.

  • @jovienrobinson
    @jovienrobinson Před 3 lety +1

    Whew, bringing this one back to the timeline

  • @ensonti.mykiaa
    @ensonti.mykiaa Před 5 lety +4

    Intersectionality is so important. I loved this

  • @marinadesiree2761
    @marinadesiree2761 Před 8 lety +57

    This deserves so much more than 2k views 👏

  • @radiahjames8636
    @radiahjames8636 Před 6 lety +2

    Kai is Awesome

  • @KFordVideos
    @KFordVideos Před 6 lety +1

    One of the best spoken words I've heard in a while.

  • @lebogangramasodi6823
    @lebogangramasodi6823 Před 8 lety +14

    Kai is so amazing!!

  • @leE6097
    @leE6097 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for this poem, played it over and over 4years ago and i play it again today as women and children are dying at the hands of men in my country(South Africa). It's been a never ending battling, black women aren't only fighting racism but for our safety too. Please, pray with us🙏🏽

  • @popstarcutie2011
    @popstarcutie2011 Před 4 lety +1

    Kai Davis has always challenge the true definition of what beauty is. Her brain is so beautifully wired, it's admirable.

  • @lakeshagadson357
    @lakeshagadson357 Před rokem

    kai is a poet i like to see more often

  • @jamessnow3264
    @jamessnow3264 Před 8 lety +316

    Why doesn't she have a CZcams channel?!

    • @naysha2271
      @naysha2271 Před 8 lety +4

      Try +Kai Hammond

    • @maritta846
      @maritta846 Před 7 lety

      PpZ v

    • @MissNayNay
      @MissNayNay Před 7 lety +46

      I know. I love this chick. She needs one with just her thoughts and poems on it. I guess she's too busy with her studies and life.

    • @mareahcathey7220
      @mareahcathey7220 Před 7 lety +8

      Proclaim unnecessary

    • @miyaamor5036
      @miyaamor5036 Před 7 lety +1

      Proclaim Hush plz

  • @igisingorsomething
    @igisingorsomething Před 5 lety

    I love how the beg. is just her talking, just her talking about her day. Its not even poetry, rhyming Cat Hat Bat, not a thousand words stuffed inside 2 mins- its just her presence. And i love it.

  • @Swebb12
    @Swebb12 Před 8 lety +39

    One of my favorite artist!

  • @mfjones3714
    @mfjones3714 Před 6 lety +2

    Love your points and views. Keep debating- even if you're the only trifecta to hold it down.

  • @mar00ned1ts
    @mar00ned1ts Před 4 lety +1

    She is a queen

  • @indolilyindomitablelily7306

    I have been called "black beauty" since I was 6. I know that I am a "I am a black beauty". And I am Proud To Be a WomanBlack is beautiful

  • @teesacquiredtaste
    @teesacquiredtaste Před 7 lety +2

    I love her , i swear

  • @emerald_digitalis3135
    @emerald_digitalis3135 Před 7 lety +2

    love her!!!

  • @lana20173
    @lana20173 Před rokem +1

    Omg I remeber being obsessed with this video when i was a kid and loved her❤️

  • @mariahromero9070
    @mariahromero9070 Před rokem

    This is one of my favorite poems. You have no idea how relevant this is for me...

  • @amaratcaos
    @amaratcaos Před 5 lety +2

    Damn! Lady, this poem is awesome.

  • @fanteinorman
    @fanteinorman Před 6 lety +4

    I identify with her and love her honesty.

  • @terriyoung7136
    @terriyoung7136 Před rokem

    Beautiful beautiful. I love her poem beautiful and intriguing!

  • @reginaldfairfield
    @reginaldfairfield Před 3 lety +1


    come on through, Kai!!!

  • @Hairflips_in_spanish
    @Hairflips_in_spanish Před 6 lety +2

    Omg you gave me chills! I would love to see you perform one day!

  • @thekenstagram
    @thekenstagram Před 6 lety +1

    I have goose bumps, I love it.

  • @habibaezzat9815
    @habibaezzat9815 Před 6 lety +1

    Gave me goosebumps

  • @itz_da_zo_goat4854
    @itz_da_zo_goat4854 Před 8 lety +2

    Kai is amazing

  • @sevynbones
    @sevynbones Před 8 lety +238

    Poem starts at 3:47. Although it's best to just watch the whole thing :)

  • @Lisa-bp6pt
    @Lisa-bp6pt Před 7 lety +2

    i really enjoy your poems.. your very smart, talented and have tunssss of humor..kudos to you!!

  • @TenaGordon
    @TenaGordon Před 8 lety +7

    i feel this so much

  • @SinisterKaosYT
    @SinisterKaosYT Před 8 lety +1

    Kai be fucking people up. For a while, I was a little worried she stopped.

  • @xaviernorthern3602
    @xaviernorthern3602 Před 8 lety +1

    Simply amazing. She went in, I Iike

  • @inmytime0fdying
    @inmytime0fdying Před 6 lety +2

    damn just hearing her speak is powerful

  • @olliemonae3662
    @olliemonae3662 Před 2 lety

    Have loved this poem since high school ❤️❤️❤️

  • @candymel3
    @candymel3 Před 2 lety

    Omg i accidentally but purposefully came across u i not only have chills but they've reached to my soul. U are powerful please don't b silenced.

  • @poop12422
    @poop12422 Před rokem

    OOOOFFFF. So powerful! 😭♥️

  • @tmyers951
    @tmyers951 Před 6 lety +3

    I fucking love her oh my lord

  • @jewelsimone
    @jewelsimone Před 5 lety +1

    still my favorite poem years later

  • @TheAshumms
    @TheAshumms Před 8 lety +1

    This was incredible

  • @maritabray188
    @maritabray188 Před 8 lety +18

    She's so fucking brilliant.

  • @antoniovicente7460
    @antoniovicente7460 Před 7 lety

    I love KAI , She is the truth

  • @Plutotherealplanet
    @Plutotherealplanet Před 6 lety

    God, I just found this girl, and I am already in love with all her Poems

  • @itskayla9735
    @itskayla9735 Před 4 lety +1

    Ugh she is so 😍😩😍

  • @brittney701
    @brittney701 Před 3 lety

    I think about this video at least once a week.

  • @Oyasavvi
    @Oyasavvi Před 8 lety +32

    Reminds me of Frederick Douglas suggesting the women's suffrage movement come after that for emancipation..both interesting and reasonable, so to speak, points of views. The whole debate going on in the comments is infuriating though

  • @katyaeveryday2936
    @katyaeveryday2936 Před 3 lety

    Nothing but snaps!!!

  • @soulspurpose8582
    @soulspurpose8582 Před 6 lety +1

    Love u Kai!!! Ase'👑

  • @Okaylindaa
    @Okaylindaa Před 7 lety +1

    I just love her!!!!

  • @oddryamaz4180
    @oddryamaz4180 Před 8 lety +1

    QUEEN!!!

  • @ZafariBae
    @ZafariBae Před 3 lety +1

    Kai Davis go hard

  • @tylerjoseph-dun2199
    @tylerjoseph-dun2199 Před 6 lety

    simply amazing

  • @shareef1085
    @shareef1085 Před 8 lety

    It's official..I'm obsessed with her!! 😍😍❤❤

  • @TyroneNorwood
    @TyroneNorwood Před 6 lety

    love Kai so much

  • @kyramckenzie7556
    @kyramckenzie7556 Před 6 lety +1

    I wake up with an apology already forming in my mouth this is what it means to be a contradiction❤️❤️❤️

  • @TigerPrawn_
    @TigerPrawn_ Před 4 měsíci

    Perfect example of intersectional identities playing out in our lives ❤

  • @jennifermaxwell8899
    @jennifermaxwell8899 Před 5 lety +3

    Ain't I Liberia ❤😩

  • @lyadmilo
    @lyadmilo Před 7 lety +2

    This is my fight song. Again, today of all days, thank you.

  • @Talvia920
    @Talvia920 Před 5 lety

    Kai I love ur poetry, u r so strong and I love how u speak ur peice.

  • @rubyhill3455
    @rubyhill3455 Před 7 lety +2

    Chills 😲👌🏽👍🏽

  • @breannajoseph2018
    @breannajoseph2018 Před 7 lety +5

    My soul left my body, then came back to me renewed

  • @destiny5315
    @destiny5315 Před 4 lety

    The beginning of the vid is a mood

  • @lyricalmind24simplyme86
    @lyricalmind24simplyme86 Před 8 lety +1

    I lovvvvveeeee her!!! ❤️

  • @phife6867
    @phife6867 Před 4 lety

    2020... and still ready to blast this on the loudest speaker from the highest building 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @dutchess2121
    @dutchess2121 Před 7 lety

    Loved how understated it was

  • @rockangelie5
    @rockangelie5 Před 7 lety

    amazing. I couldn't look away.

  • @sylvestermoalosi2815
    @sylvestermoalosi2815 Před 2 lety

    Allow me to say I honestly like the aggression near the end
    I love it

  • @abbydonahue4854
    @abbydonahue4854 Před 8 lety

    That was beautiful.

  • @nezabee6206
    @nezabee6206 Před 7 lety +1

    baby girl!! you just dropped all kinds of bars!!

  • @Xx1Lexxi1xX
    @Xx1Lexxi1xX Před 6 lety

    I love this so much. Like. Damn.

  • @Daisy-nd7iw
    @Daisy-nd7iw Před 6 lety

    She is so awesome

  • @lo373
    @lo373 Před 7 lety +1

    im so glad people are cheering over there since im over here and cant

  • @justdoit7796
    @justdoit7796 Před 7 lety

    made me cry....

  • @salientia
    @salientia Před 6 lety

    Beautiful mind and soul