Georgia's Queen Precious Lee Delivers Self-Love Power Punch in Harper's Bazaar May Beauty Issue
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Harper’s Bazaar US May 2021 beauty issue cover star Precious Lee’s interview with Kaitlyn Greenidge delivers a power-packed Black beauty message: Abundance Is Precious Lee’s Divine Right. Precious shares covers and corresponding interviews with Adwoa Aboah, Hailey Bieber, Liu Wen and Rianne Van Rompaey.
Precious Lee is styled by Sydney Rose Thomas in fashion looks from Alaïa, Area Couture, Balenciaga, Eric Javits (turban), Fendi, Schiaparelli Haute Couture and more in images by Renell Medrano [IG].
AOC expects more public communication from Precious Lee on self-confidence and the glorious spirits of so many Black Americans. Each word spoken by this incredible young woman carries an undeniable inner-spirit power punch, one delivered with intense conviction and self-love.
In a time when women of color are aggressively claiming their own public images and self-identity, Precious Lee has massive goddess wings, gathering less secure spirits around her.
Yes, Precious speaks truth to power. But her physical and spiritual message — like that of poet Amanda Gorman — is honest, without plunging a metaphorical knife into other American women in general and white women specifically.
A daughter of the South [Atlanta] — we once again understand the power of decades of Black families in nourishing their children into adulthood. When Lee tells Greenidge:
Being from the South has contributed so much to how my family has culturally embraced beauty. I’m so grateful I have my face and my body and I look how I look. Big ups to my parents because I’m such a cute half-and-half version of them. I have such stunning women in my family. My mom is gorgeous. My sister is gorgeous. They are these glamazons walking around, just these really outwardly beautiful people who also have beautiful spirits.
Almost like an orator or preacher, Precious Lee holds readers and listeners in her own control, saying words that are aggressive and powerful, delivered not only from an intellectually-defiant place of being but also from a place of nurturing inner love and self-confidence. She soars and inspires with confirmation of a reality than any thinking American woman needs to understand:
I know people are not used to seeing confident, educated, happy, chunky African American girls, and I don’t care. They’re just going to have to get used to it.
Big love to Precious Lee from AOC. Read the entire interview at Harper’s Bazaar.
Whatever your skin color, Precious wil put a lilt in your step today — if like us, you want to see America’s true beauty flag unfurled and flying high in the world. This is our mission, and Precious is at the front of the parade of millions of committed Americans. ~ Anne
