When Dialogue Gets Loud

Once I was a small black girl

Bound to eat from the fruits

Of a scared black mother

Once I was a scared black girl

Bound to be inferior

To another race

Once I was a victim

Bound to be misused

And abused

Once I was nothing

But another faceless brown body

One that was bound to fit all the stereotypes

But yet all at once

When dialogue got loud

I developed the confidence

To say that

"I am Black

And I am proud"

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