Lyric Black African American Poems

It doesn’t do any good to mind your own business,
if you’re black, you’re going to get knocked down.
Makes no difference if a hundred people beg...

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Don't let other people define your worth...
And don't give anyone power over your self-respect and self-esteem...
You are enough... You are special... 

R&B / Rap mix...

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I wish so much,
For the both of us,
To be safe, to be warm:
Away from harm,
And engulfed,
In each others' arms -...

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Oh! Black Americans,  
Africa is your motherland 
And most Africans love you 
Not because you are called African Americans 
And lost your African mother tongues
And...

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What's my name
(Muhammad Ali) 
By Michelle Morris
11/04/2021

I chose my own name and became a legend;
I refused to play your game and you tried to break...

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Leave me alone
Leave me alone
I am waiting to go home
Everyone's true colors have been shown
Everyone's level, I've outgrown
Now you get paid to be a clone
White...

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You are powerful, I see it in your walk, puissance;
proud and strong as the mighty oak.
Your words speak with the strength of our people;
your shoulders...

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Be quiet quiet quiet 
Shush shush shush
We’ve spoken too much
We haven’t listened enough

Black men and women
It’s not easy to be brave
Oppression and inequality 
make you...

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It was unnerving
a  growling demon of
deprivation, 
an
enemy that lurks
in shadows, but 
the eyes don't lie
silver spoons
do tarnish
with lack of use

they're tucked
away from public eye
shamed...

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I Can’t Breathe
 
My Country, I ask of thee,
why do you still hate me?
America the Beautiful,
why, why, am I scorned and reviled,
your unwanted dark child?
 
With your...

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The Minnesota sky

He's lying on the ground...
no mercy to be found...
He begs and pleads and says
that he can't breathe

The world keeps looking on...
human dignity is...

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Most police officers 
are genuinely good, decent people. 
I know that. Deep down, we all know that.
Unfortunately, though, the bad apples 
among them have tainted
their...

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I CAN'T BREATHE,
MY HEART IS BLEEDING,
THAT IS WHY AM SHOUTING,
WHEN I SEE A HUMAN TAKE OUT LIFE OF ANOTHER,
THAT'S WHY AM FARTING BECAUSE I CAN'T...

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I should be jealous (Country lyrics/Crossover)
I should be jealous
of he (him)
he kisses her so sweetly

I should be jealous
of her
she loves
him
so deeply

so, i'm gonna,
take myself
on, down
to...

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Hook: (like a church  hymn)
hum, hum  
hum, hum  
oh! hum, hum  
you were my cup 
of joy 
my cool drink of...

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