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RoBin White-Morton, poet, author of several books including her newest release "Must I Justify My Blackness!", explains how she remembers the first time she was called nigger. She uses explicit words as depicted in her signature title piece "Blackness!" to illustrate this point.
In this poetic selection she goes on to powerfully and explosively express, "Legends Never Die!" These pieces have been birth to bring about consciousness and the reality that racism rides high from Corporate America to the grave. Therefore, her goal has been to plant a seed of consciousness and solidarity while focusing on Black excellence. Morton uses real life experiences to validate her works. Selections in Negro dialect such as "Stir Up de Gifts" and "Going Out In Style" concentrates on the true experience of the Negro now African America.
However, for a different point of view one might find Mortons religious beliefs to be very pronounced in coping with the ails of being Black in America. "Must I Justify My Blackness!" is clear, concise, cold cut, and to the point. Leaving the reader with the note that no matter how high you go in life you will always be...this nigger, that nigger, the nigger or a nigger. However, clearly stating in conclusion, "Must I Justify My Blackness!"
"I remember the first time I was called nigger...
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This is a very intense and enriched book of poetry. The pieces range from romance, to historic, to inspirational. Each piece makes you think about the way things are and are going to be. They also represent a unique object or emotion towards which you always remember. You should always be mindful of all your endeavors in life, and know that each thing that happens is for a reason and is a sign of strength. These are all high-quality pieces. Some would pronounce even excellent.
From the Desk of
Joshua Sebastian Stewart ,
"Riveting, and right on time. A necessity to the black community."
Willard Pugh
-The Color Purple, (Harpo)
"Ro'Bin's story of the first time she was called nigger is a universal part of the African-American experience in one form or another. This experience has molded and forged us as a people. Ro'Bin's story and poetry captures this experience, just as a grain of sand contains the universe."
- Ted Quant, Director, Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice,
Loyola University, New Orleans
Ro'Bin is African to the bone. She knows that blackness is the truth of truths, that it stands at the center of the human experience, It affirms life and all that lives, all that every lived. She and her poetry reveals that her blackness is an answer not a question. She ... her blackness.
- Morris F. X. Jeff, Jr
Fankofahene, Chief Ghana
Paramount Instructor of Fakofa Communiversity
Now I understand why your head is not bowed, Why you can shout and jump about and sing our praises out loud! For your words are a shining light on our heritage and it makes us all proud.
-Patricia McGuire-Hill
Actress, Educator
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