Candace Smith talks about resilience.
A Word on Resilience
Category: Blog
Troubled Past
They beat my body. Tore it up like rabid dogs. Their wide palms crumbled then crashed against the wide nose on my face. Boots tripped along my ribs in time. This aint nothin' new. It happened in camps and cotton fields. Today they march on us in classrooms and on street corners any given morn. I [...]
For confused folk who think appropriation is wokeness / when knowing the rainbow is not enuf
For friends who still get it wrong
History
Light poetry on my history.
“Let America be America Again.”
A poem by Langston Hughes.
A Resolution
My only New Year's resolution.
Fly.
A celebration of my black beauty for those who don't understand it.
