(1982) Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s” •
— Read on www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1982-audre-lorde-learning-60s/

i go down the rabbit road 
to visit my friends

i 
 go 
      down 
                 rabbit
                             road

every day makes it harder 
to support this machine; understand?
every day makes it harder
to go to school; understand?
every day makes it harder
to BREATHE; get me?
hear me clearly 
every day makes it harder 
to live

“Women were in the forefront of the movement for national liberation in Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast prior to 1957. The early efforts of Nkrumah sought the full participation of women in the initial phases of organizing with the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and the Committee on Youth Organization (CYO).”

https://www.pambazuka.org/gender-minorities/pan-africanism-women%E2%80%99s-emancipation-and-meaning-socialist-development

i don’t need you
to feel at home
in this body
i need me to fill 
a home in this
body is like
my only home
i ever knew
changed so 
much grew
into the 
power of 
LUV 

the blackpoets kept me alive!
when you told me i should strive
the blackpoets kept me alive!
when you told us to be quiet
the blackpoets kept we alive!
when war turned day into night
the blackpoets told us to fight!

ought ought ought ought to do
bought bought bought bought a flu
sought sought sought sought a crew
drought drought drought drought 
of youth!

you don’t want the boy
to know how much 
you want the boy 
to know so. 
don’t tell him
much.  
you want the boy 
to know how much
you want the boy 
to know
so.