have you everhearda black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.it is the splitting of atoms.it is billionsofvoices screaming their children’s namesthroughher death wail.–– trayvon martin ii

first.anti.blackness: black is non.second.fetish: black non ness is. fascination. taboo. obsession. necessaryconsumption.third.exotic: the act of making black non ness acceptable. touchable.valuable.fourth.anti.blackness: black is non.— the box circle

always docile.always stud.always inept.always killing.always ugly.always dumb.always drugs.always loathing.always tragic.always lurking.always animal.always respectable. politics.always high white.always fetish black.always unpowered.always hyperbolic.always fear.always on fire.always impotent.always destruction.always spectacle.always shatter.always exacted into the perfect porn star.to bring the world to orgasm.— emotional porn (the black image industry)

you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.your skin is not burden.there is no mark against you.your being is a holy beauty.you.are a holy beauty.— ether

black women breathe flowers, too.just becausewe are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret)does nor meanwe do not swelter with wild tenderness.we soft swim.we petal.we scent limbs.love.we just have been too long a garden for sharp and deadly teeth.so wehavegrown ourselfvesintogreenhouses.

african american women are easy. inferior.africans are dirty. jungle people.african americans are lazy. indolent.african people are too black. ugly.african americans think they are better than us.africans think they are better us.–– listen to the sound of us | we are breaking our mothers heart | the ancestorsweep at how much we look like the hate that came to eat us