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a four year college filling loan papers out a mean crossover or the wide receiver route keep fiends outta rehab, stay supplied in the drought choices are few, youth mentality is swayed so easy to fall victim to a system tailored made amerikkkan dream is airbrushed, pitching perfect portrays got us all in a race, we chasing better days but we’re stuck in a maze, guinea pigs on a wheel running in circles, getting served a raw deal no appeal, government ain’t concerned how we feel social injustices are run of the mill still we got to get through and make moves leaving nothing to chance show and prove how we do, you know we gotta advance to each his due season, unwavering faith has no doubt but all this waiting has me wondering... what we gotta do to make it out? my impatience for patience made me persistent prisoner locked in solitude, me, i get no frequent visitors had to break free like convicts turned ministers if past predicts future, forever labeled sinister hard lessons of life get you off the right track and you gotta double up to get what you had back my shit is intact, this all fact, this ain’t an act it’s how i react to all the chat, damn, why the attacks? it’s hard enough trying to make it through the day hypocritical judges talking all that naysay half a penny for your thoughts, be the fuck up on your way still my virtue shines through “and have a nice day…” and everyday i’m fighting life’s championship bout it’s a battle to the finish, end it with a knockout plant seeds, in due time your harvest will sprout my dreams stout, i got clout, tell me... what we gotta do to make it out? which would you prefer, sir, the pretty lie or ugly truth? is it hard to face the facts when you’re staring at the proof? picture me position you in a place with no power held captive, bought and sold, the property of a coward hard living, hard labor from easy catch, easy prey we regress to progress, got to find another way ahead we got to stay, priority obligation it’s the only way to achieve the dreams of a nation can amerikkka be a country fully united? history, you can’t rewrite it, omit it, or try to hide it stakes high in the states, racial tension keeps us divided young, black, gifted and woman, the basis of what my plight is and you ask what my height is? i’m high… sky is the limit, but you try to prevent it got the food chain bent with it, now i’m swimming with the trout the world’s ills make me wanna scream and shout, damn what we gotta do to make it out? Yes, My Retarded Ass Signed Up
An ass backwards acronym Serve my country? So tell me what happened then Back when I was fieldhand Slaving in the hot sun From dusk 'til dawn Until I got the job done Stole my family and shipped me off to foreign lands Unknowing of when I would see Motherland again Then Abe declared the E.P. So tell me Have I really been free since 1863? Supposedly And I still ain't seen 40 acres And a mule or no reparations I get segregation, degradation And white's against integration Discrimination ain't new to me I appreciate Mrs. Parks That's why I sit in the front bus seats Jim Crow tried to hold me down Black activists of the 60's Helped to make my silence turn sound I'm spellbound Sold my soul to the government I got the M.G.I. bill Not here for the honor of it Patriotism went out the door If that's the case soldier Then what the hell are you here for? I wrote this while I was in a training class at Basic Training in Fort Jackson, SC. One of my drill sergeants was reading over my shoulder as I was brainstorming about what could come after the line, "Patriotism went out the door." The drill sergeant laughed at me then said, "If that's the case soldier then what the hell are you here for?" What he said made sense and it rhymed, so I decided to keep it. A poem from "Just My Thoughts: Mind, Body & Soul" by J.D. Laws, July 2006. accuse, abuse, use
deceit, mistreat, cheat and beat what happened to love? everyone’s watching
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Handwritten short review by legendary poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni for "Just My Thoughts: Mind, Body & Soul"
"It's not a #1 record but Just My Thoughts: Mind, Body & Soul catches the times of the heart and minds. Thank you so very much for sharing with me."
Poetically, Nikki Giovanni (excerpt) (side note: It's dated one day after my 22nd birthday! I cried and died when I saw that part!!) #Won'tHeDoIt! Yasss!!! 
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I'm delighted to grant permission. Good luck! Keep on keeping on. Poetically, Nikki Giovanni (her response to allow me to use her review for promotion) (side note: This is dated two days after her 67th birthday!) 
This is Nikki Giovanni's review for my still unreleased book of poetry, "R.I.S.E."
THIS is why I'm NOT stopping! Celebrated ICON, poet, memoirist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou acknowledged receiving my book with this kind card!
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