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Wanda Coleman
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“Oh, Mama, when I lose you I'll lose my only true witness!”
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“Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.”
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“the fault dear fellow blacks / is not in our astrology charts / but in our society / that we are run under.”
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“I almost shot you back there, you know that? when are / you people gonna learn, huh? you talk too much, that / makes me damn mad when you talk too much. i was ready / to put lead into your brain, you know that? shit makes / me damn mad, rather take you to the morgue.”
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“listen, the blast is coming / a wingless dove / sent round the world / by endless greed.”
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“little thing is brought in / nourishes from my breasts / i smile / i hold him / i know what tomorrow / is all about.”
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“there be a devil in the house / it steal money and put it in the vein / it come tip-toe thru the door / i hear him try to catch him / but he too slick / locks don't keep him out ...”
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“take one tiger / remove from jungle / file down teeth and claws / zoo / tranquilize, feed, observe / for indeterminate period of time / when finished / return to jungle.”
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“i've repeated my never spent agony / ... / so i'm writing it again / one more time in black and white with hope that / someone out there will at last / get it straight.”
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“a man makes the clothes / ... / no matter what she does / a man never has to hit a woman / drinking and smoking aren't / necessarily manly things to / do ... / it takes courage to outwit danger / luck to outwit nature / few woman speak the language of men.”
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“the assistant librarian was an old white woman / with wattles hanging to her brittle neck ... / her gray eyes policed me thru the stacks like dobermans / she watched me come and go, take books and bring books / she monitored the titles and after a while decided / she'd misjudged her little colored girl ...”
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“life was a spiral staircase on which / we stumbled up and down simultaneously ...”
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“usta be young usta be gifted — still black.”
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“you suffer calculated amnesia, you / forget those who remind you of what you really are.”
Wanda Coleman, U.S. poet
(1946 - 2013)