Anybody ever hear of a poem entitled "Like Me" about being black. It is fairly unknown but I really need it!
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I don't know if this is the same one, but it's a good one anyways.  The title is Black Beauty.\n\nBlack Beauty just like me...\nYou carry yourself with such divinity\nSo as not to care that others can see your supreme femininity\nWith skin so deep brown complexioned\nAnd eyes of a light brown confection\nWith lips of a strawberry hue\nAnd hair made of curls oscillating in a unique groove\n\nWith curves so round and sublime\nThat a sculptor could never construct in the abyss of time\nWith a voice so appeasing and crystal clear...\nThat one could forever wish for that hum in their ear\nWIth a knowledge base so profound\nThat what your mind lurks can nowhere else be found\n\nBlack beauty just like me...\nMaybe in time the world will learn to embrace your perplexity\nBut for now you will remain a Somalian deity\nConsuming the eyes of those who glance your way with utter passion\nYou bring to this world a certain enigma\nAs you display to the world your lesson...\nThat life can be hard, but you stay strong and keep to your essential duty\nKeep family, culture, religion and love\nBecause you're a magnanimous black beauty just like me.\n\nby Ilhaan Qassim
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take on personas and interview everyone.  there is a book, "black like me" where a white guy colored himself black, shaved his head, etc. and just walked around as a black guy.  kind of interesting.  or just use every different race friend you can beg borrow or buy, to go around and ask the same questions of the population.
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Go to google.com, Type in\n lyrics to "Why Am I Me"\nIf you don't get an answer then try (i think it is) Lyrics.com\nGood luck
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I believe there is someone for everyone as a person, why do you find it necessary to say, I'M Black. I don't say when I put pen to paper or talk I'M WHITE. Either your a lovely person and thats all that counts, or you're not. Think of being a lovely person then others will think the same. Hope you get what you want have a lovely life.
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You know I looked up your questions and I see you are very prejudice.  Well, you talk about blacks this and illegal immigrants.  Well everyone is created equal.  What makes you think you are better than anyone else?  You should take all this racism and divert it to putting time into learning about God.  Because if you know something about blacks, you know that we love God.  We don't have any devil worshipers that are black, maybe one in a million.  You can say you're saved all you want, but if you have all this hate for people who aren't white, you are not saved.  You brung up all these negative things about Martin Luther King, who cares?  President Bush did drugs.  We don't care if he changed his name or if he copied some books.  He stood up for us blacks and if it wasn't for him, we would still be slaves.  Let's say this man rescued you from a burning building, would you care if he changed his name or did prison time?  You don't worry about something like that when someone is trying to help people.  God is the only person who can judge someone.  I love being black.  I grew up in a small town that is 95 percent whites.  I have never ran across anyone who treated me or my family any different.  I love everyone.  No one is better than me and I am not better than anyone else.  There will always be prejudice people out there and noone can change that.  I will pray for you.  Our cultures are different, our names are different, our clothes are different, our music is different, and our language is different.  Face it every race is different.  We are on this earth together and we're not going anywhere.  Everywhere you look you will see Indians, blacks, Asians and other races.  America has all different races and cultures.  Embrace them, don't hate them.  What good is hating other races going to do?  What good is talking about them going to do?  Why do whites try to keep blacks down?  Black people had to work hard for what we have.  We don't have rich ancestors and we don't own many buildings and businesses.  Remember, the same time your ancestors were building there homes and businesses, my ancestors were working in them.  Cleaning them, taking care of their children, cooking, and doing every other thing that was at their disposal.  So for that, I love Martin Luther King or Michael(whatever his name was, I don't really care).  Because of him, I am not forced to clean up after you or anyone else from the white race.  And please don't call me uneducated, because I am working on my second degree and I finished at the top of my class.  I don't know, maybe you are not prejudice but it sure seems like it.\nOf course you are going to say you aren't.  Let a black man run for president then all the racist folk would come out and boycott and you would probably be the first in line.  Let your child bring home a black date and see how you respond.  I will pray for you.
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Way Cool Question!\n\n"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is an excellent poem by Langston Hughes to explain using TP CAST T!\n\n>>\nI've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the\nflow of human blood in human veins.\n>>\n\nTPCASTT is a way of analyzing a poem.\nSee the link below for how it works.\n\nT-Title - what does title mean *before* you read the poem.\nP-Paraphrase - put the poem in your own words.\nC-Connotation - what meanings are implied?\nA-Attitude - what is tone or attitude of speaker & poet?\nS-Shift - poem shifts, changes, develops\nT-Title - after reading, does title have other meanings?\nT-Theme - what *might* the poet be saying here?\n\nSo this is all about "critical thinking" -- teachers do not care about what YOU think about a poem. The purpose is to teach YOU to think and analyze.\n\nCheck out the link  for the essay on "Rivers" to get some ideas on how to use TP CAST T for the poem.
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holy crap this is strong!\nlast line is the best. \nclearly you are writing with FEELING and I love that.\ntitle it and send it in some time to a contest.\n\nI simply feel the power in this thing!\nit had me look away in sorrow because i know someone that was bullied to death. IF it helps, you need to talk about you feelings. get help. It doesnt have to be face to face, maybe talk to someone on the phone or by email. But yeah.\n\nI also think that you could have ended at the line " I swear I saw blood" and that the other stuff could be a poem all by itself. OR you could have two separate poems that are meant to be read together like " poem1 and poem2".\n\nthis is amazing.Just write with feeling.See, doenst writing with feeling feel better?
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"Harlem" by Langston Hughes, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", by William Wordsworth
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Malcolm X. The exact quote is, "We are Africans, and we happen to be in America. We are not Americans." Click the link below to read the entire speech.\n\nGood luck on your project.
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I know that this is not what you were looking for but maybe it could help you with your essay?\nhttp://www.finchpark.com/arts/poems/poems.htm
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The name of the poem is (My Garden—"His Garden") by Charles Haddon Spurgeon\n\nhttp://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons42.txt
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I've always liked this poem...\n\nOne night I had a dream--\nI dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord \nand across the sky flashed scenes from my life. \nFor each scene I noticed two sets of footprints, \none belonged to me and the other to the Lord. \nWhen the last scene of my life flashed before me,\nI looked back at the footprints in the sand.\nI noticed that many times along the path of my life,\nthere was only one set of footprints.\nI also noticed that it happened at the very lowest\nand saddest times in my life. \nThis really bothered me and I questioned the Lord about it. \n"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,\nyou would walk with me all the way,\nbut I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life\nthere is only one set of footprints. \n"I don't understand why in times when I needed you most,\nyou should leave me." \nThe Lord replied, "My precious, precious child,\nI love you and I would never, never leave you\nduring your times of trial and suffering. \n"When you saw only one set of footprints,\nit was then that I carried you."\n\nMary Stevens
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Check out my site below.  I published a unit on black history through the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
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Try hotghettomess.com.  That's where you will find blacks.
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I wanted to help so badly, but I can't find it. I searched for about 30 minutes. I Found a great site though. It tranlates poems into English. I will tell you if I find it.  P.S. when I originally searched the poem and went to the site a poem came up but it was blurry and it was in the Greece catagory.\n\nGood Luck,\n          Chelsea\n\n\n\nI updated my comment so that I could give you the English translation to singlesockcollectors poem: here it is\n\n\n\nLeaf turns brown fall, you have just flown away yourself, branch patronizes, you want to separate yourself.  This life source, that\nformerly nourished you, Asserted, embellished, nevertheless is not dried up!  \n\nAs a burning love, in violent pushed, This velvets nectar knew to stuff you.  This tree, that has you it does?  You in has you it too given?  Of a too perfect love would have you it flooded?  \n\nThe life that climbs in him, and cannot flow itself, NEEDS this puit, where she can s’épancher itself.  The vigor of the summer,\nwhere you puisas the joy OF A delighted happiness, the abandons without you.  \n\nSmall leaf turns brown, where go you to put yourself?  Will rejoin you foam it and his cold dew?  Do not go you to take mourning, in the frozen earth, With of other feuillées, that already are\nwithered.  \n\nDauphine 30/08/2004\n\nCheck the site
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I'm black and I say we are people too. Yes there are some black people that commit crimes, but there are people like that in other races too. I feel trully honored to be a young black woman in the world today. I'm proud about my race and heritage. But the one thing I can not stand, about some people of my own race is that the ones that don't use their education call the ones that do use theirs, acting white. I don't see how wanting to better yourself and secure your future is acting white. I mean I think more education anyone has should make them better off in the world. Because you can get great jobs and be able to take care of your family. So that is one of the things that I don't like about my own race. Another thing I can't stand is the fact that some people of my race seek out reasons and ways things are racist. I say if you go looking for it you will always get smacked in the face with it. I think a few of those people are being even more racist, because you are searching for reasons for someone to hate on you. I say everyone in the black community and myself included should just go and live life, if you are held back in one area find another arena to get involved in. But don't give up at all. Just keep striving forward more than ever before. But thats just how I see things.
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R U IN MY SCHOOL ??\nTRY GEETA-KAVITA.COM\nIT'S GOT POEMS FROM GOOD POETS \n\nAND IF U FIND ONE PLS.TELL ME I DIDN'T FIND ANY OF CLASS 5 LEVEL :(