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Subject: BLACK NATIONALISM Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM FOR BLACK HEARTS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For malcolm's eyes, when they broke Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks A POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men; Negroes; American Blacks AFRIKAN REVOLUTION, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afrikan people all over the world %suffering from white domination Last Line: Work & study %struggle & victory Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism APOLOGY (TO THE PANTHERS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I became a woman Last Line: I grieve my whiteful days Subject(s): Repentance; Black Nationalism; Penitence BLACK ART, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poems are bullshit unless they are Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK ART, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poems are bullshit unless they are Last Line: And let all black people speak this poem %silently %or loud Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism BRING THEM HOME, by ANEB KGOSITSILE Poem Source First Line: 350 thousand gone Last Line: Father, brother, son, prisoners of war - %bring them home Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism CITIZEN CAIN, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great northwest, always, my grandfather warned me Last Line: Roi, baby, you blew the whole thing Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism FIVE BLACK MEN, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Douglass, du bois, garvey, king, and malcolm x Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940); King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968); Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Reform And Reformers; Writing And Wri IT'S NATION TIME, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Time to get / together Last Line: It's nation / time! Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks IT'S NATION TIME, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time to get %together Last Line: It's nation %time! Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A closed window looks down Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A closed window looks down Last Line: Return, destroy, and create. What will be %the sacred words Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEADBELLY GIVES AN AUTOGRAPH, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pat your foot / and turn the corner. Nat turner, dying wood Last Line: Burned to death / in south carolina Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949); Negroes; American Blacks LEADBELLY GIVES AN AUTOGRAPH, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pat your foot %and turn the corner. Nat turner, dying wood Last Line: Burned to death %in south carolina Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism LEROY, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know my mother when she sat Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks LEROY, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know my mother when she sat Last Line: Useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave %the bitter bullshit rotten white parts %alon Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism MARCUS GARVEY, by JR. DOUGHTRY LONG Poem Source First Line: When garvey, round and full like the buddha shook Last Line: Garvey, garvey %you must have known %that sleep is the brother of death Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940) MARTIN LUTHER KING, by IME IKIDDEH Poem Source First Line: Marcus %malcoln %martin %you grandchildren of uncle tom Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940); King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968); Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) NUMBERS, LETTERS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're not home, where Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks NUMBERS, LETTERS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're not home, where Last Line: Today is the history we must learn %to desire. There is no guilt in love Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism OLD LIBERIA IS NOT THE PLACE FOR ME, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye colonizationists Last Line: In old america! Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Colonialism; Liberia; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR BLACK HEARTS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For malcolm's eyes, when they broke Last Line: We fail, and white men call us faggots till the end of %the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) POEM FOR HALFWHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you, listening to me, who are you Last Line: You might be surprised right out the window, whistling dixie on the way in Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR HALFWHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you, listening to me, who are you Last Line: You might be suprised right out the window, whistling dixie on the way in Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Last Line: Will the machinegunners please step forward? Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harlem is vicious / modernism Last Line: Are so familiar Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harlem is vicious %modernism Last Line: In joy, that our lives %are so familiar Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism SOS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calling black people Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks SOS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calling black people Last Line: Calling all black people, come in, black people, come on in Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Black Nationalism THE WORLD IS FULL OF REMARKABLE THINGS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick night / easy warmth Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks W.W., by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back home the black women are all beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks W.W., by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back home the black women are all beautiful Last Line: Miss muffett in a runaway ugly machine. I mean. Like that Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism WESTERN FRONT, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My intentions are colors, I'm filled with Last Line: Not, for definite, no cats we know Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism WORLD IS FULL OF REMARKABLE THINGS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick night %easy warmth Last Line: Her eyes slide %into dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism |
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