Black Girl Literacy, Pt. 3 Lyrics

Three

She is all about acrylic and anime

Bringing blessings

Banishing bad vibes

Belly full of bad jokes

And cheap wine

Always gathering

Always collaborating

Crafting comedy

Over brunch and beats

Contradicting conjurors of lies

That say Black girls are

Drama

Dramatic

Dragging each other

No

Exaggerated tales as

All fire

Fist fighting

Grabbing glasses of water to hurl and all

Hurt inside

No

Told to smile

Why?

As if man's mere presence is inspiration

Told her mere intonation is an insult

Told keep quiet

Kneel and kill your spirit

She resists

Fights to kneed the knowledge

That will lend to the lengthening of her life

She is learning to love the less in her

And the more

Finding magic in her melanin

Meditating on mothers of movements that

Net and knot themselves in her DNA

She negates the negative narratives

Oscillating outside and within

Her potent potential is

Unquantifiable

Realizing reality is shaped

By the world that she decides to create

She is sensitive and she is strong

Her sacredness will no longer be sacrificed

To save those who only seek to take

She can take off her crown

And throwdown

Thinks of her heart as a talisman

An uncut diamond used to being under a microscope

Unabashedly unique and unalterable

She is

She is ultraviolet light

Visions vast and piercing

A woman wide world wandering

A woman withholding nothing

Learning to expect all things

And x out anything

That doesn't yield her happiness

Black girls with a zest for life

Reaching past their dreams to

Grasp their destiny

Black girls are the light

All the rest are fireflies

Black girl

Black girl

You are

Everything