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“The apocalypse sounds like this-- black men breaking in to steal back the thing once stole from them.”

Poetry Poem African Americans Blacks

Book:Brown: Poems

Source: Brown: Poems

“There are gods of fertility, corn, childbirth, & police brutality--this last is offered praise & sacrifice near weekly & still cannot be sated”

Death Poetry Poem Police African Americans Blacks Police Brutality Michael Brown

Book:Brown: Poems

Source: Brown: Poems

“A finger is a gun-- a wallet is a gun, skin a shiny pistol, a demon, a barrel already ready-- hands up don't shoot--”

Poetry Poem African Americans Blacks Police Brutality Guns Michael Brown

Book:Brown: Poems

Source: Brown: Poems

“Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.”

Race Racism African Americans Blacks Slurs Epithets Rachel Dolezal

Book:The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

“Did Dolezal really fool those black folks around her? I have a strange feeling she didn't, that many simply humored her. You have to do this with white people, from time to time.”

Race African Americans Blacks Race Relations Whites Rachel Dolezal Humoring

Book:The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

“I was ten when Mike Smiley, half-Indian, skinny, brown-skinned, brought the word jigaboo to school like lunch, or the flu, fed him by his adopted white father who said that's what we called them then. By noon it was done--everyone had a name for what had been bothering them, some thing utterly human as hate.”

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Book:Brown: Poems

Source: Brown: Poems

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