@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:14

Black Voices Matter

article image placeholderA Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde | Poetry Foundation
We were never meant to survive and when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again. We are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed

Share Black voices #blackvoicesmatter #blacklivesmatter #georgefloyd https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275/a-litany-for-survival

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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 1:32
And the poem that he wrote was in 1951. So it's almost 70 years old and just kind of tells you how old a lot of things are and how things have not changed and how things need to change. And in the poem, you'll actually hear a reference to a play that Lorraine Hansberry made famous after the poem was written. But it's a poem named Harlem. It's also been named Montage of a Dream Deferred. But it's Harlem, and it's by Langston Hughes
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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:06

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise #GeorgeFloyd

Shame I rise up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean leaping and wide I bear in the tide leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise into a Daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I am the dream and the hope of the slave I rise, I rise, I rise
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@Wordsmith
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:49

#lucille clifton # won’t you celebrate with me

Hi. I think this is a wonderful way of showing our solidarity with millions of voices out there. I'd like to share a poem by Lucille Clifton. Won't you celebrate with me? Won't you celebrate with me? What I have shaped into a kind of life. I had no moral born in Babylon, both nonwhite and woman. What did I see to be except myself? I made it up here on this bridge between Star Shine and clay
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