She was always the kind of lady I aspired to be. She’s one of the reasons I don’t take sh*t at the post office, or on the phone with my phone company. I’m very much a “Can I speak with your manager?”, “This is unacceptable Godd*mnit!”, type of woman. I laugh as loud as I want, and when my tears fall from my eyes they come hard and fast. I never leave food on my plate. I eat it all and will most likely get seconds. My closet is full of show-stopping glitter pieces that probably don’t “flatter” my figure but they sure as hell make me feel like a natural woman. She gave me lessons on how to embrace black womanhood in all its glorious, full-bodied form. When I watched Aretha move mountains with her gospel I felt like she was giving me permission to move mountains too.Let us slide into your DMs.Sign up for theTeen Voguedaily emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out:Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Has Died at 76 The case can be seen as a legal test case for police departments dealing with video evidence of police brutality. In subsequent cases, like the Rodney King beating two years later, In his defense, it happened in the sixth grade, so we're guessing that he's learned some better breakup tactics since then. But we wouldn't be surprised if she still had that Post-It note...hey, it could be worth a lot of money these days, or at least a lot of Instagram likes.Twitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterRelated: “This cast. This ensemble. When I think of going to work every day and the passion and the intelligence, the resolve, the discipline that everybody showed, I also think of two questions that we all have received during the course of multiple publicity runs,” Chadwick recalled, ponderingthe film’s success