When you have known only Blackness your whole lifeAs I haveWhen it has been written on your birth certificateCelebrated in your homeTaught in your classrooms—That long historyMarred by half a millennia ofTurmoil and trauma
black feminist writer & editor
When you have known only Blackness your whole lifeAs I haveWhen it has been written on your birth certificateCelebrated in your homeTaught in your classrooms—That long historyMarred by half a millennia ofTurmoil and trauma
