I'll forever be like "fuck Ukraine" when this government sends them $100 million, and each family in Maui gets $700.

Khadjou Sambe on Becoming Senegal's 🇸🇳 first professional female surfer.

By the age of 13, Khadjou Sambe had fallen in love with surfing. But surfing is a male-dominated sport in her home country of Senegal, and it’s rare to find women riding the waves. It’s even rarer to see Black women surfing, something Sambe quickly became aware of as she began progressing in the sport. Despite the odds, she kept going, fueled by a growing love of being in the water. Fast forward 11 years later and Sambe, now 24, has her sights set on competing in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, under the guidance of her coach, Rhonda Harper. After Harper recruited Sambe to compete in a surf competition in Sierra Leone in 2014, she invited her to California to train, and from there, the organization Black Girls Surf was born, helmed by Harper with the support of Sambe.

Silence your ego and your real power will produce itself