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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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