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Speak the truth to the people Talk sense to the people Free them with honesty Free the people with Love and Courage for their Being Spare them the fantasy Fantasy enslaves A slave is enslaved Can be enslaved by unwisdom Can be re-enslaved while in flight from the enemy Can be enslaved by his brother whom he loves His brother whom he trusts whom he loves His brother whom he trusts His brother with the loud voice And the unwisdom Speak the truth to the people It is not necessary to green the heart Only to identify the enemy It is not necessary to blow the mind Only to free the mind To identify the enemy is to free the mind A free mind has no need to scream A free mind is ready for other things To BUILD black schools To BUILD black children To BUILD black minds To BUILD black love To BUILD black impregnability To BUILD a strong black nation To BUILD Speak the truth to the people Spare them the opium of devil-hate They need no trips on honky-chants. Move them instead to a BLACK ONENESS. A black strength which will defend its own Needing no cacophony of screams for activation A black strength which will attack the laws exposes the lies, disassembles the structure and ravages the very foundation of evil. Speak the truth to the people To identify the enemy is to free the mind Free the mind of the people Speak to the mind of the people Speak Truth
When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral ... Curiosity seekers ... coming to see if I am really Dead ... or just trying to make Trouble ...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night I saw my mate leap screaming to the sea and I/with these hands/cupped the lifebreath from my issue in the canebrake I lost Nat's swinging body in a rain of tears and heard my son scream all the way from Anzio for Peace he never knew....I learned Da Nang and Pork Chop Hill in anguish Now my nostrils know the gas and these trigger tire/d fingers seek the softness in my warrior's beard I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible Look on me and be renewed
Who can be born black and not sing the wonder of it the joy the challenge And/to come together in a coming togetherness vibrating with the fires of pure knowing reeling with power ringing with the sound above sound above sound to explode/in the majesty of our oneness our comingtogether in a comingtogetherness
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when you took your laughter and departed are you aware that with you went the sun all light and what few stars there were? where have you gone with your confident walk your crooked smile the rent money in one pocket and my heart in another . . .
and the old women gathered and sang His praises standing resolutely together like supply sergeants who have seen everything and are still Regular Army: It was fierce and not melodic and although we ran the sound of it stayed in our ears . . .
Black man running Thru the ageless sun and shadow History repeated past all logic Who is it bides the time and why? And for how long?