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Omar Penny

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

5 poems·Since April 2013

Hi, I'm Omar. I am black poet who tries to sever ties with the labels that the outside world has placed upon me. I do this by distancing myself from everything that makes me what they want me to be and surrounding myself with what I want to be. "I am the stone that the builder refused." - The Boondocks themesong