Get Mama’s Gun

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“They sat there
dressed in African garb & dark sunglasses
listening to the brothas play
taking notes
We didn’t realize who they were until their next recording had been released:
The Beatles Play Soulmusic”

. - Haki Madhubuti

“He was cool
Super-cool
Ultrablack
A tan/purple
Had a beautiful shade
He had a double natural
that would put the sisters to shame
His dashikis were tailor made & his beads were imported sea shells
He was triple-hip
His tikis were hand-carved
Out of ivory
And came express from the motherland
He would greet you in Swahili and say goodbye in Yoruba
Mannnn he was so cool & intelligent
Cool-Cool, ultra cool, icebox cool, so cool his wine didn’t have to be cooled
He was air condition cool
Cool-Cool was so cool he made me cool
Cool-Cool so cool we nicknamed him refrigerator
Cool-Cool so cool he didn’t know
After Detroit, Newark, Oakland, and Chicago
We had to remind Cool-cool
that
to be black
is to be
very hot”

-Don L. Lee, 1969

Owerri, Nigeria

“Black woman will define herself, naturally.
Will talk/walk/live & love her images.
Her beauty will be… the only way there is to be”

- Don L Lee

“We struggle with hopes that she doesn’t have to
And that her every dream may be pursued, uninterrupted
Cuz she’s everything that’s ever mattered
And everything that ever will matter”

Ode to my Mother

I wish
I knew words like this
Back when life was more pain
Back to five
in the yard
While she cooked water and pig
With the salt of her tears
- Zula Saata,