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Black Poetry Post #29 - Chriscinthia Blount

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DevotionReader Series: 30 Ways of Looking at Black Poetry

“Let a race of men now rise and take control” – Theme for Week #4, April 22 thru April 29

The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa - Chriscinthia Blount

Umoja (Oneness)
Oneness
yields the strength
to overcome all obstacles.
 
Kujichagulia (Self Determination)
If we allow ourselves
to be defined,
and therefore created,
we become dolls on strings
being pulled in every direction
but our own.
 
Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility)
Individuals
can build
but only families
maintain.
 
Ujamma (Cooperative Economics)
If we put only half
of our time, money, and energy
toward creating
our own wealth,
we could have built
a nation by now.
 
Nia (Purpose)
The purpose
of every human life
is to teach,
through one’s own method,
the power of love.
 
Kuumba (Creativity)
Give birth
to things beautiful
and beneficial
for only they
are everlasting
treasures.
 
Imani (Faith)
Only in the hearts
of believers
do miracles
manifest.

Devotionreader.com 30 Days of Looking at Black Poetry -- Day:  One O Black and Unknown Bards   Two Listen Children    Three For the Record    Four Ballad of Birmingham  Five    Six The Idea of Ancestry   Seven I Want to Write   Eight A Grandfather Poem    Nine Sweet Sound   Ten My Brother is Homemade   Eleven Those Winter Sundays   Twelve SOS   Thirteen Resurrections    Fourteen Jessie Mitchell's Mother   Fifteen April Rain Song    Sixteen I've Got A Home in that Rock    Seventeen Earth Screaming   Eighteen Returning Spring   Nineteen Newark, for Now [68]   Twenty Dawn   Twenty-One Fir   Twenty-Two Comin Strong   Twenty-Three From a Black Feminists Conference Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet   Twenty-Four My Africa   Twenty-Five Strong Men   Twenty-Six Today's News   Twenty-Seven My Guilt   Twenty-Eight Forward, Always Forward    Twenty-Nine The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa   Thirty What Harriet Said

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