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Famous Black Love Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Black Love poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous black love poems. These examples illustrate what a famous black love poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

Speak the Truth to the People

...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...Read more of this...

by Evans, Mari

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