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Baby Yeah | Anthony Veasna So
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America, so frequently, is excited about the stories of black people but not the black people themselves. Everything is a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, or a march where no one was beaten or killed. This is why the telling of our own stories has always been important. The idea of black folklore as community is still how we connect to our past, lock
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“If We Must Die,” in which he exhorted Blacks to “face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall,
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
They took us as we cried out with pleasure and then covered our mouths in shame.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
There You Are
There you are
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove
pouring the herbs into the pot
hawthorn, rose;
buying the tulips
& looking at them, holding
your heart in your hands at the table
saying please, please to nobody else
here in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
How beautiful, these things you
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Lupita Limón Corrales reads "A Car Crash is Not a Poem"
youtube.comMarie Howe’s New and Selected Poems “The Meadow:”
… Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking,
is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue,
and to know that tangled among them and
terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.