Your Black is not charcoal like they say,
Your Black is not darkness like they say,
Your Black is not backward.
Your Black is African, Caribbean; Guinean-Guyanese if you please.
Chiefdoms and kings, warriors and queens:
Your Black is royalty.
Your Black is breathtaking, amazing, awe-striking.
Your Black is revolutionary
Like the Underground Railroad
Your Black is Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth and if anyone asks,
Tell them that’s the truth.
Your Black is Frederick Douglass and Marcus Garvey
Uproarious like Bernie Mac and Steve Harvey.
Your Black is courageous and strong
Your Black is visionary
Like Rosa Parks and MLK
Incendiary like Malcolm X.
Your Black is not ghetto like they say.
Your Black is brilliant and talented
Musical and creative.
Deep like the Blues,
Bold like Jazz,
Your Black’s got character and pizzazz!
It’s Langston Hughes in Harlem
And Josephine in Paris
Your Black is Essence and Ebony,
GQ like Tyler Perry
Your Black is rich and velvety and sweet like a melody,
Textured and curvaceous,
Vivacious, soulful and fabulous:
Your Black is Beautiful to me.
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- Ebony Miss
- Writing is the act of recounting, remembering, speaking up and pouring out as much or as little of the writer's soul as is desired. It's about teaching and molding minds and opening up the eyes...I can laugh cry and scream about the world through my words; I can be an activist bringing witness to what my eyes filter every day and I can take my imagination wherever it needs to go, wherever I want it to go and let it grow like a plant hit with just the right amount of sun-into an intricate work of art-my very own play on words-my very own-word art.
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Happy Black History Month!!! I read this around the same time last year at some CAA event. Wrote it for my little niece and nephew in case they should ever doubt themselves next to their peers:)As it happens it's also a nice reminder of the people we should honor during this time. One of my faves!!
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