Uplifting Black Love Poems

Dear Sister,
On this day, 
in a world that doesn't love us,
Doesn't appreciate us,
But always seems to need us,
To pick up the slack, 
To carry their...

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I will stop reminiscing over the 1700s when the 2000s stop mirroring the same values
plantations upgraded to prisons, chains to handcuff, masters to head leaders...

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Somebody to love me

Someone to love me when I’m old
When my hair turns grey 
Tell me I’m still beautiful 

Someone to love me at my...

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To be a thing that no one wants 
is to live a life of woe
Those backward looks, anger mistook
impede our worldly flow

All shades, all hues,...

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What if you were an inhabitant of a world
Where there's no hate, greed, jealousy, envy, and pride;
And one is not enraged by the prosperity of...

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A self-whispered battle cry
An uplifting quote for another try
With a burdened mind behind a straight face
I have a sense of self like I’m in a...

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Who am I,
Am I the birds that’s in the sky? Or the grass beneath my feet.
Am I the lizard that crawls, or the flower that...

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In the first year after we first met 
There was something was there. That spark
In each other’s hearts. The value exchanged
During the time we spent...

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To my sisters who will never realize how much I love them,
Who I hope will never have to know the world hates them-
Because their skin...

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To my sisters who will never realize how much I love them,
Who I hope will never have to know the world hates them-
Because their skin...

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I am black and I say to kindred flames...
Never assert nor cry "things are the same".

It is the height of dishonor to our fathers,
Our hidden...

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Black LOVE

             My head rested
on the pillow of her smooth skin.
She opened the...

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