America! you will learn freedom feels like butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds picked by my sturdy hands

today, i am a black woman in a body of coali am always burning and no one knows my namei am a nameless fury, i am a blues scratched fromthe throat of ms. nina—i am always angryi am always a bumble hive of helloi love like this too loudly, my neighborsthink i am an unforgiving bitter sometimes, i think my neighbors are right most times i think my neighbors are nosey

Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America

Equality will cost you your luxurious life If a Black woman can’t vote If a brown baby can’t be fed If we all don’t have the same opportunity America promised