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Understanding the Revolution
“We must begin to understand that a revolution entails not only the willingness to lay our lives on the firing line and get killed. In some ways, this is an easy commitment to make. To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment… Continue reading
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Why Poets Are Poor
I am NOT your Sonia Sanchez, your Langston Hughes, your James Baldwin or Maya Angelou. In fact, my name may never find itself uttered among the world greats. And I’m fine with that. No, I LOVE that. Not ALL poets are poor, but I think the best ones are. They are the people who still… Continue reading
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Cousin
She walks but she sleeps… she sleeps her way down 35th street, Chicago’s State Streets. The project life booming lights camera action, whistles blowing the street life calling undressing her body with its eyes for she blooms into this new body just as suddenly as the sky rises she rises into womanhood……. since that first… Continue reading
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