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The beauty about being black Is that I have tears and scars and anxiety and violations and incarcerations and fear and joy and love and music and resilience and hope and triumph and defeat and defiance and perseverance and intelligence and diligence and adaptability and understanding All woven through my being, my skin My essence That could not be stripped away In 400 years. I am a living embodiment of all these emotions Passed down from my ancestors to my grandparents to my parents to Me. Black people cannot be brought down Because we are the backbone of a nation. We are the lifeblood of its people. We possess a magic that no other people Can attain because we attained it Through suffering and more suffering And more suffering after that when we thought we couldn't possibly suffer any longer. We survive and will continue to survive Because that is our creed, our way of life We possess a rare entity Unattainable to anyone else It's strictly ours. It's one of the few things we have been able to preserve- Magic.
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May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017 at 11:22 AM UTC
Black Magic
The beauty about being black Is that I have tears and scars and anxiety and violations and incarcerations and fear and joy and love and music and resilience and hope and triumph and defeat and defiance and perseverance and intelligence and diligence and adaptability and understanding All woven through my being, my skin My essence That could not be stripped away In 400 years. I am a living embodiment of all these emotions Passed down from my ancestors to my grandparents to my parents to Me. Black people cannot be brought down Because we are the backbone of a nation. We are the lifeblood of its people. We possess a magic that no other people Can attain because we attained it Through suffering and more suffering And more suffering after that when we thought we couldn't possibly suffer any longer. We survive and will continue to survive Because that is our creed, our way of life We possess a rare entity Unattainable to anyone else It's strictly ours. It's one of the few things we have been able to preserve- Magic.
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19/F/American
May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017 at 11:22 AM UTC
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