Young Black Man
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#9 Young Black Man
I am a young black man
Confused and trapped in a whiteman's world
Day and night I shed lonely tears
Contemplating my life through the years
The politicians and Government officials
Never cared about young black men
They got me secluded on the corner
All I see is rot and corruption
There can not be better days
All of my dreams come to fruition
Because I am a young black man
They got me trapped revealing my primitive side
I am a young black poet
My words are never misunderstood
But always over looked
I am a strong young black man
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me.
Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my
goals, my own; get used to me.
-- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.--
Billie Holiday
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to
succeed. -- Booker T. Washington
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-- Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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