'beautiful black woman' BlackGirlMagic

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It's like a shadow. Falling beside me, but not on me. Or in me. "You're not mixed?" They ask with a questioning smile on their face.
A young girl from the Southside Where cats shoot dice In the sky Gwendolyn cools the air Smog separates the city These rich folks don’t come round ‘here The city of the violet Heart of the violence
  Lemme tell y'all a story About how the rhythm of a young girls heart beat trembled at her feet.
In honor of the month that is hushed on school speakers Torn out of the history books Dumbed down with empty proclamations of peace And ignored like white privilege in a country club
All I wanted to do was write   But in a world of hate I could barely get a sentence out   My aesthetics betrayed me
All I wanted to do was write   But in a world of hate I could barely get a sentence out   My aesthetics betrayed me
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