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Good News About the Earth by Lucille Clifton
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“later
my life will accuse me
of various treasons

not black enough
too black
eyes closed when they should have been open
eyes open when they should have been closed”
― Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

tags: african-americans, awareness, blacks, excess, obliviousness, poem, poetry, race, treason

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“white ways are
the way of death
come into the
Black
and live”
― Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

tags: african-americans, blacks, death, life, poem, poems, poetry, race-relations, whites

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