Lyric Prejudice Poems

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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You don’t know my true colours
You don’t know anything about me
You don’t know my identity

You don’t know all my answers
You don’t know why my laughter
You...

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Convictions 
susan Q. miller © 2011
Song Lyrics

Maybe our convictions are convictions after all,
They lock us in a prison in our minds. 
They keep us from...

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Mama, mama they don’t like me for the color of my skin;
Oh, daddy why won’t they play with me;
What’s wrong wit me; 

Older brother Ronnie...

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for the mothers and children of Gaza  

Frail envelope of flesh,
lying cold on the surgeon’s table
with anguished eyes
like your mother’s eyes
and a heartbeat weak,...

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This poem is dedicated to Cassidy Megan, the founder of Purple Day.

Canadianie, take my lavender ribbon:
I will stretch it to you, my dear, from Russian...

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Paper rustle of your lips 
is not needed to her really,
You're a knight, but your heart weeps,
You were brave, why are you thrilling?

You would strip...

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"No talk stink!" Hawaiians say
"Speak just like its Judgment Day"
"No talk stink!" the angels say,
"Speak the words you use to pray!"

For better or for worse
Choose...

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I look at no other 
other than in the mirror at myself 
I dont have a full blood brother
or sister no one too close to...

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She stands all alone in a court full of men
An innocent woman condemned
The charges are great, she's resigned to her fate
She knows she will die...

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Thoughts unspoken,  feelings remain hidden,
Concealing all emotions,  she walks ahead
All rainbows and sunshine. 
Unravelling her will take hell lot of time. 
She portrays...

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They came as birds
no nests to live in
without food to eat
everything to worry about

Now they are sharks
with glass bottles as nests
storage bans to control
and nothing...

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Yellow Man
 Red man
 Blackman
 Yellow man
 Red Man
Black man  
White man
 Whole wide world is filled with disillusions 
poverty in the streets over...

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When I saw him enter,
an illiterate, I surmised
(one you may despise)

But he spoke some words
about the drug he wanted…

He changed my mind.
Pharm argued no further.

We...

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(Verse 1)

Lost in life
They're checking out the way you seek
The talk is all over town
Worrying about the fruit you bear
It's gonna be so bittersweet

But I...

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