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    I AM (A BLACK WOMAN)

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    I am a Black Woman

    the newborn universe suckled at my teat

    oh

    you didn't know?

    why then on clear nights do the constellations

    appear so vibrant and sweet

    I am sleek

    I am well defined

    I was a consort of the spirits

    before recorded Hue-Man time

    I am fine

    no need to gape at my beautiful behind

    every time

    I strut I remind

    artists that I am a portrait sublime

     

    I AM A BLACK WOMAN

    SINCE THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED TIME

    I HAVE FILLED MEN OF ALL RACES

    WITH WONDER AND SURPRISE

    SHIELD YOUR EYES

    AS MY BEAUTIFUL BLACKNESS

    ECLIPSES THE SUNRISE

     

    I am a Black Woman

    The Mother of the First Land

    come closer baby

    feel my hands

    the calluses and bruises

    I change the diaper of Neptune

    when Venus refuses

    I determined my Black Man's glorious fate

    and asked for no reward

    I was raped

    as my King was lead away in shackles and chains

    and still I remain

    a queen

    the quintessence

    the essence

    of the Dream

     

    I AM A BLACK WOMAN

    SINCE THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED TIME

    I HAVE FILLED MEN OF ALL RACES

    WITH WONDER AND SURPRISE

    SHIELD YOUR EYES

    AS MY BEAUTIFUL BLACKNESS

    ECLIPSES THE SUNRISE

     

    I am a Black Woman

    I Sojourned for the Truth

    I am Coretta Scott King

    Myrlie Evers

    and Betty Shabazz

    I didn't attend child birth classes

    or practice lamaze

    I had my babies right out there

    in the cotton and cane fields

    come closer baby

    look at my beautiful yield

    I am the backbone of my Mother Earth

    I am so priceless

    I am beyond worth

    and still I scrubbed white women's floors

    performed their mundane chores

    healed their white babies sores

    was forced to give in

    when

    they could not take their white men's sexual abuse anymore

    and still

    I

    like an aged wine

    am robust

    sensual

    pleasing to the palate

    and so DAMN fine

     

    I AM A BLACK WOMAN

    SINCE THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED TIME

    I HAVE FILLED MEN OF ALL RACES

    WITH WONDER AND SURPRISE

    SHIELD YOUR EYES

    AS MY BEAUTIFUL BLACKNESS

    ECLIPSES THE SUNRISE

     

    I am a Black Woman

    I don't have an attitude

    I AM attitude

    not trying to boast

    or be rude

    but I am the Creator's most perfect gift

    with the fluttering of an eyelash

    I can heal

    or create a rift

    I can shift

    from a ghetto princess

    to a White House Queen

    no need for me to dare

    I AM THE DREAM

    hell

    I am sexy even when I breathe

    I don't hope

    I achieve

    I give my man reason to believe

    and Lord knows

    when the sons I sire

    violently expire

    I grieve

    but,

    I pick myself up

    and start the new day fresh

    for, I am a Black Woman

    I AM THE BEST

     

    I AM A BLACK WOMAN

    SINCE THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED TIME

    I HAVE FILLED MEN OF ALL RACES

    WITH WONDER AND SURPRISE

    SHIELD YOUR EYES

    AS MY BEAUTIFUL BLACKNESS

    ECLIPSES THE SUNRISE

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    • 26 January 2011
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