Living Black History by Manning Marable

Author:Manning Marable
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Sonia Sanchez, one of the most widely-read black nationalist poets of the period, was a Nation of Islam member for several years. Her Malcolm was less overtly the paragon of black masculinity than the tragic symbol of loss for what might have been, an unhealed wound that “floods the womb until I drown”:do not speak to me of martyrdom

of men who die to be remembered

on some parish day.

I don’t believe in dying

though I too shall die

and violets like castanets

will echo me.

yet this man

this dreamer,

thick-lipped with words

will never speak again

and in each winter

when the cold air cracks

with frost, I’ll breathe

his breath and mourn

my gun-filled nights.

he was the sun that tagged

the western sky and

melted tiger-scholars

while they searched for stripes.

He said, “fuck you white

man. we have been

curled too long. nothing

is sacred now, not your

white face nor any

land that separates

until some voices

squat with spasms.”

do not speak to me of living.

life is obscene with crowds

of white on black.

death is my pulse.

what might have been

is not for him

or me

but what could have been

floods the womb until I drown.

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