Black Girl Affirmation
Black girls with their black lips
and their black hips it's just astonishing
How we're born with something you
pay to put inside of you
these hips are natural boo
You asked how I got these curves , not by squats
look at my mama
My friends ask me why I never wear tights , I say just to sease the drama
Thighs thick like aunt Jemima's pancake mix
Waist skinny like the jeans i'm not allowed to wear because
even my guardian knows that the Galaxy lies in my hips
But these hips aren't where the curves begin
See ,my afro rounds it all off nicely
Pact in , blue magic slathered down the scalp
You asked how I got this divine dome of curls
I SAY , I don't follow trends
While the rest of my friends where getting perms
I asked for a slight snip of my split ends
I wear yellow in the summertime because It helps my melanin pop .
I sit in white classrooms and learn white history
like black bodies didn't drop to make all of this shit happen
ain't no laughing. in the pews listen to the hymns that the walls sing
we sing because were happy and dare a mother fucker to interrupt
i am a angry black woman ,
don't fight with my fist but shit gets popping when i grab that pen and paper
My hair is my identity
Thick strands durrive from my scalp like the branches of that old oak tree
behind grandmas house
Got Stevie wonder on my chest
And not knowing who he is WILL GET YOU PUNCHED IN THE THROAT
PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY HERITAGE NIGGA
Don't touch my hair while I'm in the check out line in Kroger
because I will turn around with the fury of my father's right hand and
Write
Another poem to add to my collection of poems
About how badly I wanna slap the privilege out of the
bodies of ignorant white men and women who ask me how I get my hair so curly
Or how my skin is so bronze
I wear a black power fist in my hair to remind you of how much power
a black fist still has and forever will have
Isn't it beautiful
So magnificent how a woman , carved out of Mahogany wood could produce life
and at the same time protect herself even from men with shse same color skin as her