These hands have never picked cotton

and the atrocities performed on my people I have not forgotten


When it is above 80 degrees

I drink water from any damn fountain I please


I don't bow my head and shuffle my feet just get along

I speak truth to power whenever it is wrong


Never afraid to look any adversary in the eye

because at this stage of life it's live free or die


Preparing to hand the torch of freedom over to our youth

with my last breath I will whisper to them the unspoken truth


My poetry plants prophetic seeds in hopes one day they will grow

and as written proof that-I Am Not Your Negro

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*Inspired by the trailer for the film entitled; "I Am Not Your Negro"