14 Quotes by D.B. Mays

Black Lives Matter, Too"Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean this fist, but it does mean resistWhen oppression and injustice are not up for discussionInsurrections and protections when wrongs aren’t corrected. It means black is equal, inherits the same rights,Liberties, protections, and the pursuit of happiness as whites

We are a beautiful people. Even the way we face and overcome challenges is beautiful. Our beauty deserves to be elevated and celebrated.

We still tiptoe around having an honest discussion about what it really means to exist while Black in this country. All lives can’t matter if Black lives don’t matter. Demanding equality and equity isn’t radicalism. This is realism. We make these demands because the Constitution isn’t an accurate reflection of Black life in this country. If liberty escapes few, it escapes all.

Elegy to Black Panther"Yibambe, Mfalme, yibambe on your crossing to the ancestral landWhere we imagine the Infinity Gauntlet sitting safely upon your taloned hand.Rest in power, Mfalme, sleep peacefully, for your earthly battles are won;The King of Wakanda forever, our most esteemed, Native son.

Blood-Stained"Six minutes, no medics, I gasped as ragged breaths escaped my lungs.“Hold on, Bre, hold on,” my love pleaded, but I was already gone.I drowned in my own life’s blood as I heard my love weep for me.Lord, wake us from this nightmare – we want to go back to sleep.

Black DiamondsBlack gemstones pillaged from Mother Earth and mined from Kemet, Crystallized into rare gems under centuries of pressure. Yet, clarity remains pure under the brutal heat of history And the alluvial mining along the coastlines of black beaches. Whitewashing while extracting Nubian gems from sable sands,Twelve million carats separated from the soil of black lands.

The Run"It’s the middle of the day, I know some are home,and they see and hear the wrong that’s going on.A Black man is being hunted on their street,That’s why no one calls in help for me.I hear the shots, three times I’m struck.I try and try, but I can’t get up.My head is lifted toward the sky, No pain, I’m riding the runner’s high.

Stunning"Melanin rich and honeyed, butter brown syrupy‘Da blacker the berry, the sweeter the sweetGirl, all hues of the ebony rainbow shineOur rind so rare, age like fine wineLips plump like cherries ready to be picked.Dey spend all kind of money tryin’ to look like ‘dis

We have to teach, tell, and show Black girls that they are beautiful ... that there is no standard of beauty, only defining it. And we, Black girls, define beauty, too. Our hair, shade, shape, and features are beautiful. We set trends, and the world follows.