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occasionally pensive: let a man feel like a man (a poem)

daniellemertina:

They tell me that to keep a man I need to let him feel like a man, but I didn’t know that I, black woman, who they say is whimsical and ugly and downtrodden, can birth a black man into his manhood

my power - my smile, my pregnant silence, my seductive praise, my body an open canvas for him to…

*FRANTIC APPLAUSE*

3 months ago
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    *FRANTIC APPLAUSE*
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  6. chokolatesoul said: YES! I get so TIRED of the black men being so weak that they tell me to become weaker to make them feel better about their inadequacies.They resent me (black woman) for trying to help them actualize their possibilities. We are a broken people.
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