‘Someone almost walked away wid alla my stuff’ by Nztozake Shange
https://unchastemannequin.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/someone-almost-walked-off-wid-alla-my-stuff/
Justice For Black Girls
(In the Spirit of the 4th annual Justice for Black Girls Conference at Spelman College)
Justice 4 Black girls who have always loved.
Justice 4 Black girls who always loved Black girls for who they are and not what they can do.
Justice 4 Black girls who are only loved for what people can take and poorly copy.
Justice 4 the Black girls who are used as a projecting rod and don’t know how to not internalize the haters.
Justice for Black girls who are mocked and then poorly copied.
Justice 4 the Black girls who are chewed up and spit out, left to harden dry out and Blacken on the concrete sidewalk.
Justice 4 the Black girls trapped in pointless arguments.
Justice 4 the smart Black girls being forced to live in a profoundly stupid society that tries to make it seem like they are the dumb ones.
Justice for the Black girls who go online to find respite and instead find hate, mockery, half-truths and false narratives.
Justice for the Black girls with pure intentions and hearts so big they find the space to save other people while she herself is not safe.
Justice 4 Black girls fighting wars in their own homes, their lands, everywhere they are supposed to feel safe.
Justice for the Black girls silenced and shunned by oppression, drowning in a culture that wants them dead.
Justice 4 the Black girls who can’t clapback because it will ruin whatever she’s got going on.
Justice for back-stabbing Black girls.
Justice for Black girls who never got to be Black girls.