ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
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ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
Can take a week of left over scraps
and make a gourmet meal
Can cuss a man out, then make love to him
that night and make him feel like a king.
Can wear a burgundy french roll, 3 inch heels
and a split up her thigh to work and
make it look professional
Can wear the hell out of spandex
Can raise a doctor, a world class athlete
and an A+ student in an environment
deemed by society as dysfunctional,
broken underprivileged And disenfranchised.
Can heat a whole house in the winter
without help from the gas company.
Can go from the boardroom to the block
and "keep it real" in both places.
Can slap the taste out of your mouth.
Can put a Black man and his non-Black date
on pins and needles just
by walking into the room.
Can live below poverty level
and yet set fashion trends
Can fight two struggles everyday
and make it look easy
Can make a child happy on Christmas day
even if he didn't get a thing
Can be admired and fantasized
about by men of other races
Can be 75 years old and look 45.
Can make other women want
to pay plastic surgeons top
$$$ for physical features
she was already born with.
can be the mother of civilization.
