Best Black African Amer Poems

Frightend children under the baobab
Of elders discourse playing
At the deep edge of rites
Of passages
With no Atlantic dream.

There is a beauty here
Before the other world began
Forgetting...

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The 44th President “one who is blessed” in Swahili,
Happens to love his wife’s Shrimp Linguini.
His desk, in the senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy!
Renegade...

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This wake, I owed it to you, my defining moment :
for the raw melding, of life imprisonement
and death behind the bars. The sin had
	
seeped slowly...

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YOU CAN WITH GODS HANDS
 YOU HAVE A GOLD
THAN UNLOAD
DON'T FOLD
DO IT FROM YOUR SOUL
AND DON'T GET DECUSS
STAY FOCUS...

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Ralph Ellison is my Father,
For I am Invisible,
I am real, 
And I tire of people telling me different,
I am very real,
And yet Invisible,
I am the...

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I am a *****.

Young,gifted, and black.

I have been to the golden gates of heaven and felt the blazing heat of the doors to hell.

Then made...

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What do you know about a nightmare coming true and a dream being just a dream?

What do you know about things looking one way, but...

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Brown skin							 
Skin brown							 
Always an insult						
Always a put down

Low expectations
No chance for a win
Cast down and locked up
Because of the color of my skin

I...

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The Jaguar has
exquisite spotted
markings...
He roars,
flies,
jet swims,
No wonder
a prestigious
car is
named for
him...
But he
has no
presitge...
but,
extinction...

Same old
reasons...
He's 
really
remarkable...

I hear
his 
cries
for 
help?...

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Articulation.
Does color have a language?
What is talking black?...

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As soon as Odey arrived,
The villagers greeted in roar
Like the verdicts of Lions.
He was lifted high and 
Gongs gave their salutations,
For Odey, the great salt...

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“I Come From A People”
Written by Kim Tipton Scott

I come from a people...

Forced to labor from sun up
‘till after it had gone down
and from the...

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East St. Louis, IL
City of Champs

A city with untapped potential and mountains of hope,
A people with great dreams, reaching forward
Looking for ways to manage and...

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Only through adversity can GREATNESS be achieved.
"If there's no struggle, there's no progress",
this is what Frederick Douglass believed.

To tap into our inner stength & push...

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Is Hip-Hop Dead?
If People, by Our lyrics
can be led
With the light on ghetto
life, We shed
About how hard We have
it, as a kid
When Momma struggles
to keep...

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