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LilHorchata

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

1 poem·Since October 2017
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Propitious

October 25, 2017
You black, 
you won’t do it 
You a drug addict, 
you can’t do it
You a thug,
you’re trapped here
You’re not going anywhere
 
No
 
I’m African American
I refused to be stereotyped 
my Ancestors taught me better
and They taught me to strive 
that I am better than the status quo
 
That I will rise despite what you say
 
Black is Beautiful 
 
Black is Powerful
 
Black is Intelligent 
 
You will not tell me what I am
you will not tell me where I won't go
you will not, I won't let you. 
 
Black is Beautiful 
 
Black is Powerful
 
Black is Intelligent 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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