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“give Grief a name Then fold it origami Place it kindly in a home suitable for royal things”

Poetry Grief Sadness Poem

Author:Mahogany L. Browne

“America! you will learn freedom feels like butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds picked by my sturdy hands”

Poetry Work Freedom Poem African Americans Blacks

Author:Mahogany L. Browne

“Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America”

America Death Poetry Poem African Americans Blacks

Book:Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

“Equality will cost you your luxurious life If a Black woman can’t vote If a brown baby can’t be fed If we all don’t have the same opportunity America promised”

Poetry Opportunity Poem Equality Voting African Americans Blacks Food Security

Author:Mahogany L. Browne

“To be WOKE is to understand that equality and justice for some is not equality and justice at all. We must stay alert. We must ask hard questions. We must stand for what is right--even when it is difficult and scary.”

Justice Bravery Equality Questions Woke Alertness Wokeness Standing Up

Book:Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

“What does it mean to be woke? In the simplest sense, it means to be aware. It means to see your surroundings and challenge how we strengthen our relationships with the government, the community, and nature. To be WOKE is to fight for your civil rights and to fight for the rights of your neighbors.”

Relationships Rights Awareness Civil Rights Woke Wokeness

Book:Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

“give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world.”

Poetry Single Parent Black Girl Magic Slam Poetry Redbone

Book:Chrome Valley: Poems

Source: Chrome Valley: Poems

“today, i am a black woman in a body of coal i am always burning and no one knows my name i am a nameless fury, i am a blues scratched from the throat of ms. nina—i am always angry i am always a bumble hive of hello i love like this too loudly, my neighbors think i am an unforgiving bitter sometimes, i think my neighbors are right most times i think my neighbors are nosey”

Poetry Women Poem Anger Black Women African Americans Blacks Neighbors Nina Simone

Author:Mahogany L. Browne

“My mouth harbors love like a well Except most days the well feels dry No one told me how to replenish I’ve been taught to fear large bodies of water' — Crowned”

Crowned Boaat Mahogany L Browne

Author:Mahogany L. Browne

“When you live where we live You say what it is & if you can't say what it is Or if it hurt too much, Or maybe it's too confusing You just say "whatever" That way you ain't no lie”

Feelings Hurt Whatever

Book:Chlorine Sky

Source: Chlorine Sky

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