Copyright © 2014 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved.
I am a Black woman, born and raised
in the American South, but I have
often had to yell or give long lectures
about my circumstances and my
problems and about what has happened to me
or other folk like me
and yelling and lecturing is a bore and a waste of my time, in spite
of the fact that I have met many of my Black folk that I love
and many White folk that I love and who love me,
but I have never seen any mass movement of White folk who
marched in the streets to say that they loved or supported Black women and
I have never seen any mass movement of Black people
who marched in the streets to say that they loved or supported Black women, so
I figured that in spite of that loving handful of
men and women who do or did love me, that
remain in my life or my memory, that I better
depend on myself because Common Sense demands that since I
am a Black American woman I better not make too many assumptions
about who I can count on
besides myself.
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Hello Leslye Joy,
this is very profound workings here. I hope you will have a collection of your works documented for our future generations of African American, women writers .
Thanks Bj Barrow. I’ll be satisfied with my work being documented for future generations after documentation of the work that I have done over the last five or six generations!