There’s no silencing

The noise in your

Head when

The volume control is broken

And the...

Let your imagination captivate you

Let it build your spirit

You have that fire

Be the one who ...

Respect me gal
You hear me
Say yes sir master
The language of the slaves' captivity
All I hea...

So many focused on helladays
What about our ancestors
Who fought for our heaven
In remembrance...

No Mantality

Your baby mama stays in the hood

She's on section 8

You riding on 28s" ...

Lost motivation you knew when it happened Gave up on hope n I got no reaction I'm up in my head...

Out of the

bog it

rose.

Slowly

it grew,

expanded.

Complexity

increasing.

It started

On a wet rainy night

In the midst of the storm

I wasn't sure if I could cope with t...

We developed a bond that seemed unbreakable

We had the two of us, most important

Our love stood...

When you louse up,

You louse up my day,

When people louse up my day,

I have to distance myself...

It is clear

I am here

I am the beginning

My will shall turn

My strength, I have earned

Throu...

Wit da heat of da night, breeds da weak between her thighs, she longs for moans to end da silence...

Let me say I’m sorry, no I’m not the one who committed your rape or abuse, but let me be your apo...

Moving in silence killing em wit success, they want me to be loud violent and ignorant, wrong nin...

An uncontrollable missile of the mind,

Willl give full self-satisfaction to its rage.

Yet,

A S...

May we continue to embrace and show the love for our children. Teach them the true value of moral...

Continue to surge

Believe that you can

Have strength and courage

That is the master plan

Yo...

YOUR A BURDEN, A POISION I WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND.

CURSED IN THE WAY YOU STOP AND STARE DIRECTLY I...

When a man has a habit of calling you crazy

And

States, "You need to go get your straitjacket"

Just live your life

Take things one step at a time

Obstacles do not have to deter you

Contin...

If I was a cell phone, I would commit suicide by lethal draining, avoid all chargers and electric...

The Achievement Gap Blues

Hey, people, have you heard?

there’s a blues in the schoo...

Trust and Believe

I don't need no frenemies

I don't care to have no enemies

No jealousies

No ...

True Hustlers Maintain a Low Profile

Wise Up with their Conduct

Join a True Society of Serious ...

Girl, it is just us two

Together, we build our foundation

We care for one another

And make a...

Life's a running mile so we chase it on a road leading nowhere

sometimes protected,.. Most tim...

A baby's firstbreath

arrived gasping for new air

Sterile clinical room

Little lungs holl...

bandaged remedy
sought after therapy
come and sit next to me
a red sofa with magazine fold...

The Mayhem man my favorite

tv show

watch all his commercials I believe

he advertises sta...

Remember the day you up and left

I nearly cried my self to death

then I met someone else

she m...

Deleting the memory of what it was to spare me the disappointment of what it is; is how I feel wh...

My mind understands that which my heart is unable to comprehend. I refuse to lose, which makes it...

Misdirected energy, focused on da obsolete, a strong attraction to sumtn so weak, misguided m...

An unmatched beauty is her intellect, focus and ambition the skills she possess, determined to be...

Born blind but in time love grows into 20/2 vision. Along with being grown comes grown decisions;...

Distance maintained, although indifference remains
No change or gusts of wind, to erase what onc...

A few months ago I was very stressed and overwhelmed with everything and I wanted to give up.

Put your heart into everything

In order to prosper

Promote the positive

Go forward and conqu...

All I wanted from one person is a big hug to warm up my heart and I can’t even get that

my hea...

No Turning Back

by S. Kristopher Byrd

Life and boxing are much the same

Both take co...

She made me want to believe again
Redeem myself from the hell within
Always losing but need...

The faith that they gave us
Groomed and maintained us
Tortured and maimed us
Made us who w...

Unsheathe the glaring dagger to plunge into my soul
A steel I’ll feel more ever that’s real an...

At my weakest point, it occurred to me that my unfortunate circumstance was not by chance. It was...

I toss and turn every night, sumtn in my heart and mind just don’t sit tight, I know I ain’t do a...

The opposition hates to hear of positive change so it listens carefullyfor negative remains.

It can be done

Apply yourself accordingly

You have the knowledge

Utilize it wisely

Take cen...

Have you heard of or read of one of the leaders of the Black Panthers of the 6os his name is H Ra...

She was an Aries, a ram, the goat, greatest of all time when it came to love, her words were suga...

Trump is President

Bed-sty got rich white residents

I’d say more but I’m hesitant

Cuz th...

Why

arrogance?

Some, believe

themselves

superior, better

than others.

Why?

M...

After careful consideration I decided to bite my tongue but the damage was done. My heart and min...

Done an about face with Facebook

Am a quitter when it comes to Twitter

MySpace has become their...

Just be there

The kids need your presence

Be their guide and shield

In order for them to mak...

So you wanna go to the

honey nest

budget the money

try your best

In the end gotta giv...

There are people we all

know them

friends family

they pop up on the

scene

no one sought thei...

A tribute to the less fortunate

sun out those of ordinance

those holding bowls in the stree...

You were the one who decided to enter this game

It was your selfishness that sparked thi...

There’s an old saying, that if God made anything prettier than you then he kept it for his damn s...

When we were down-and-out

We wondered

How to make the sad situation relocate?

You and I

Both ...

Moving smart

I regained my heart

It feels like the work of unique art

Positioning my agitation...

We have a tendency to misread

We learn and earn the guidance to true principle and we succeed

When I maintained a stable mind

My standards were bougie

I was too damn choosy

And

Doing just...

These sins of mine havetaken a toll on my heart. Catchin' up with the part of me that cares. A bu...

Do not waste your life away

Do something, be somebody

Think large and take charge

Let no one...

Thank you God for my make for the me the me they see thank you for adi tracksuit, masqueraders, t...

Am I not the right me 2 see my choices through? Who, if not me can do what I do? Right or wrong I...

His concerns as a jealous lover outweighed those of a loving father. A common oversight in the ey...

If making love is an artform, then our canvas should be filled with so many colors that God himse...

I send healing

I do not wish you pain
It is not who I am
It is not my fault
Although I took...

You lost her and I flossed her

expensive things you bought her

priceless things I taught her

She sadly drowns in tears

Because of how you treated her

You were nothing but a manipulator

Feeling as if my world has turned upside down
inside out

in a matter of 48 hrs

unable to s...

the down beat
is you
the up beat
is you
you are my heart
i love you
emensely
te...

Keep me grounded

my world you rounded..

Well in my heart like a beat you've pounded..

Smell.. ...

Believe it or not...

You still make me nervous

Strangely, that’s how I know your worth ...

Conscious consideration of the gifts I've been granted

You should have come wrapped in grandeu...

Excuse me beautiful,

I’m just trying to get through to you

Hoping to inch closer, because I...

My words are not perfect with you

My tone often muffles

My fluency sometimes flawed

Voic...

If I could, I would

Get closer to her in a heartbeat

If she only knew or understood

If o...

It was never real

You all were never true

There was never a me

connected to you

F...

Dazed and amazed

Close attention paid, with an eyebrow raised

Trying not to be noticed star...

Wait…

What’s my role again?

On a roll again

Out of control again

Listen!...

Here w...

He saw everything he expected a worthy queen to contain

She was positively indescribable, beau...

What is a king without a queen?

A movement without any progression

No light at the end of t...

you made me cry

on a certain day

you cut my chord

of another way

laid the burden

b...

Deal well with trying criticism with the touch of your spirituality

Foolishness will set your mo...

Holding back my tears and finding myself kicking holes in the walls and punching the closest thin...

Dear Black Men living in America, we ask these things from you. To make it easier to profile ca...