Title: 7 Powerful Poems About Injustice & Racial Discrimination | Hive Life
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7 Powerful Poems About Injustice & Racial Discrimination
You’re Not Black – Amy Saunders
I, Too (1926) – Langston Hughes
Immigrant Blues – Li-Young Lee
Home – Warsan Shire
Caged Bird (1983) – Maya Angelou
After Zuko (2019) – Dave Harris
Rosa (1998) – Rita Dove
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Content: It’s an old story from the previous century
about my father and me. The same old story from yesterday morning
about me and my son. It’s called “Survival Strategies
and the Melancholy of Racial Assimilation.” It’s called “Psychological Paradigms of Displaced Persons,”
called “The Child Who’d Rather Play than Study.” Practice until you feel
the language inside you, says the man. But what does he know about inside and outside,
my father who was spared nothing
in spite of the languages he used? And me, confused about the flesh and the soul,
who asked once into a telephone,
Am I inside you? You’re always inside me, a woman answered,
at peace with the body’s finitude,
at peace with the soul’s disregard
of space and time. Am I inside you? I asked once
lying between her legs, confused
about the body and the heart.