Black Connections (Bconx): 2010

The Lesson

I keep on dying again.

Veins collaps, opening like the

Small fists of sleeping

Children.

Memory of old tombs,

flesh Rotting and worms do

Not convince me against

The challenge. The years

And cold defeat live deep in

Lines along my face.

They dull my eyes, yet

I keep on dying,

Because I love to live.

~Maya Angelou

(rest in perfect peace Danroy Henry)

Cause & Effect

"We are usually taught:

1) Yt supremacy was the cause > Black inferiority is the effect

But

2) Black inferiority is the cause > white supremacy was the effect."

~Bro. Marcus Klien

Necessary Silence

"The liberator is he who from a necessary silence, from a necessary secrecy strikes the destroyer. That, not loudness, is the necessary beginning."
~Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons

Bamileke Saying

"The thorn will come out from where it went in."
~Bamileke proverb

the coming of Kali
it is the black God, kali,
a woman God and terrible
with her skulls and breasts.
i am one side of your skin,
she sings, softness is the other,
you know you know me well, she sings,
you know you know me well.

running kali off is hard.
she is persistent with her
black terrible self. she
knows places in my bones
i never sing about but
she knows i know them well.
she knows.
she knows.
~Lucille Clifton