Morehouse College - Torch Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Roses Roses and who said roses ainht made for me ain't l the fariesit of fair that sends any man beyond the eternal peak ain't I luscious, authentic a-n-cl beautiful lying bare. brown, erect a-n-d eyeful ainhl my breast sheer symbols of innate eminence aih't my vaginal passage the ebitome of mother nature, bearing warriors ain't it from my womb that Hannibal Dubois Muhammad Douglas Malnom Martin emerged ain't I a true cosmopolitan queen of the Nile poeless of the globe mother of all celestial things and who said roses ain't made for me '14:! -'

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peem it isneciessary to make a beginning. it'is necessary to dust the bboks we'have not read. to clean the gun we will not buy to feed the baby we'have'not made. . it' is necessary . to make a beginning and then ' begin. Black Woman Light floods sincere black skin blending nile blue in loveB halo light of day that flows in blackness Ranting goodness of first water breathing tunes of ebony in a glimmering love-filled flame The Blackness of Alice Coltrane ' blind beats. reflecting in silvery black loire then chimes. tinkiing. a mellow cord Lulling in loving black awakeness a heavenly star that sparkles in regal black Inia noontide. blue rose of splendor An Ethiopian Jewel sparkling black black orchid meilowing in silken water A bia'ck and precious storm

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