you see, my whole life is tied up to unhappiness it’s father cooking breakfast and me getting fat as a hog or having no food at all and father proving his incompetence again i wish i knew how it would feel to be freeit’s having a job they won’t let you work or no work at all castrating me (yes it happens to women too)it’s a sex object if you’re pretty and no love or love and no sex if you’re fat get back fat black woman be a mother grandmother strong thing but not woman gameswoman romantic woman love needer man seeker dick eater sweat getter fuck needing love seeking womanit’s a hole in your shoe and buying lil sis a dress and her saying you shouldn’t when you know all too well that you shouldn’tbut smiles are only something we give to properly dressed social workers not each other only smiles of i know your game sister which isn’t really a smilejoy is finding a pregnant roach and squashing it not finding someone to hold let go get off get back don’t turn me on you black dog how dare you care about me you ain’t go no good sense cause i ain’t shit you must be lower than that to careit’s a filthy house with yesterday’s watermelon and monday’s tears cause true ladies don’t know how to cleanit’s intellectual devastation of everybody to avoid emotional commitment “yeah honey i would’ve married him but he didn’t have no degree”it’s knock-kneed mini skirted wig wearing died blond mamma’s scar born dead my scorn your whore rough heeeled broken nailed powdered face me whose whole life is tied up to unhappiness cause it’s the only for real thing i know ― Nikki Giovanni

you see, my whole life is tied up to unhappiness it’s father cooking breakfast and me getting fat as a hog or having no food at all and father proving his incompetence again i wish i knew how it would feel to be freeit’s having a job they won’t let you work or no work at all castrating me (yes it happens to women too)it’s a sex object if you’re pretty and no love or love and no sex if you’re fat get back fat black woman be a mother grandmother strong thing but not woman gameswoman romantic woman love needer man seeker dick eater sweat getter fuck needing love seeking womanit’s a hole in your shoe and buying lil sis a dress and her saying you shouldn’t when you know all too well that you shouldn’tbut smiles are only something we give to properly dressed social workers not each other only smiles of i know your game sister which isn’t really a smilejoy is finding a pregnant roach and squashing it not finding someone to hold let go get off get back don’t turn me on you black dog how dare you care about me you ain’t go no good sense cause i ain’t shit you must be lower than that to careit’s a filthy house with yesterday’s watermelon and monday’s tears cause true ladies don’t know how to cleanit’s intellectual devastation of everybody to avoid emotional commitment “yeah honey i would’ve married him but he didn’t have no degree”it’s knock-kneed mini skirted wig wearing died blond mamma’s scar born dead my scorn your whore rough heeeled broken nailed powdered face me whose whole life is tied up to unhappiness cause it’s the only for real thing i know
― Nikki Giovanni

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