It has been said "a picture tells a thousand words." However, before those words are even constructed, that same picture evokes a thousand emotions. Pride, despair, love, hate, happiness, sadness and many other emotions all combine to generate the words every picture "tells". Immediately after viewing this picture, I felt a sense of pride. The same pride Iman (right) so effortlessly displays. Iman's role in this cover is of my particular interests; so poised, so graceful. She is displaying her true identity, being an African woman. So often we see the women of Africa shown in a terrible light. They are portrayed as uneducated, poverty-stricken, primitive individuals. We don't often see women of Africa in such a regal light. This cover takes our old ways of thinking and completely flips them around. With Alicia Keys (left), onlooking with a loving eye it is impossible not to feel a certain way about this picture. It almost looks as if Alicia is reassuring Iman that her part in this photo is to change our views of the women of Africa. That what Iman is doing is not in vain. Could this have been Vanity Fair's objective? If one picture such as this can be distributed worldwide by magazines such as Vanity Fair it can definitely affect its viewers and change our minds as well as out hearts.