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Famous Black Person Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Black Person 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 person poems. These examples illustrate what a famous black person poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Whitman, Walt

...elf! 
Let it take steps after eunuchs, and after consumptive and genteel persons! 
Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say! which is trodden
 under
 heel, after all?) 
Let the reflections of the things of the world be studied in mirrors! let the things
 themselves
 still continue unstudied! 
Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself!
Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself! 
(What real happiness have you had one single...Read more of this...

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