The Lesson



















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

The Coming of Kali



















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