The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2 by Mahogany L. Browne

Wrong Is Not My Name: 'I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name / My name is my own my own my own' - June Jordan

Whitney Greenaway / Carnival Fire of '63.

Ajanae Dawkins / Pulling Teeth and Answers Before Dying.

Simone Savannah / beautiful black queen.

Destiny Hemphill / shadowboxin, session one.Natalie Rose Richardson / What do I tell the white boy who asks me of my heritage.Morgan Parker / Magical Negro #80: BrooklynĪll the Events That Happen to You: 'You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.' - Maya Angelou.Hotep Says #BlackLivesMatter and He'd Kill a Dyke Birdsong / All The Things That Have Not Happened Between Us We have nothing to lose but our chains.' - Assata Shakur We must love each other and support each other. Ewing / what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knifeĭuty to Fight: 'It is our duty to fight for our freedom. Britteney Black Rose Kapri / for Colored boys who considered gangbanging when being Black was too much.Morgan Parker / Magical Negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th Episode of 'The Jeffersons'.Syreeta McFadden / Of Thee, Magical Negroes, I Sing.Xandria Phillips / Sara Baartman and I Negotiate Visibility.Rio Cortez / The End of Eating Everything.Crystal Valentine / A Brief History of Coconut Oil.Lauren Whitehead / Outside My Harlem Window.Sharpening My Oyster Knife: 'I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.' - Zora Neale Hurston Or: Pirate Jenny Shit Talks With Her Employer Syreeta McFadden / Question and Answer.Eboi Hogan / Cardi B Tells Me About Myself.Kemi Alabi / At H&M, When Another Black Girl Asks If I Work Here.Roya Marsh / Ode to Fetty Wap (written after strip club).Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.' - Pat Parker I'm Black: 'The first thing you do is to forget that I'm Black. Morgan Parker / Magical Negro #217: Diana Ross Finishing a Rib in Alabama, 1990s.Alysia Nicole Harris / White Godiva Melts in a Mouthful of Blood: Prayer for My Unborn Daughter.Elizabeth Acevedo / You Mean You Don't Weep at the Nail Salon?.Nikki Wallschlaeger / This Body Keeps the Keys.Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Homage to My Breasts (After Lucille Clifton).Rio Cortez / Self Portrait in a Tanning Bed.

Collector of Me: 'I shall become a collector of me / And put meat on my soul' - Sonia Sanchez

The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2 by Mahogany L. Browne