[She lets out a noise.]

I think...I feel like we know that. But it's more about being recognized - being treated as equals. Seeing the work that we do is as good as white people's. That we're capable of beauty, too. That we can be beautiful, too.

[The number of times where that applied to her on a personal level when she was a kid and a teenager, she doesn't want to say. Every teenager goes through a phase where they think they're ugly.]