This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist. - June Jordan

And when these concepts of race and class and gender absolutely collapse is whenever you try to use them as automatic concepts of connection.

The expression of hatred for your enemies is sometimes the only way to end self-hatred.

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
GENOCIDE TO STOP
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION AND REACTION
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC
OUT THE WINDOWS
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY
NOBODY COLD
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED
JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE