<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>to the Diaspora</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">you did not know you were Afrika</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you set out for Afrika<br>you did not know you were going.<br>Because<br>you did not know you were Afrika.<br>You did not know the Black continent<br>that had to be reached<br>was you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could not have told you then that some sun<br>would come,<br>somewhere over the road,<br>would come evoking the diamonds<br>of you, the Black continent--<br>somewhere over the road.<br>You would not have believed my mouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I told you, meeting you somewhere close<br>to the heat and youth of the road,<br>liking my loyalty, liking belief,<br>you smiled and you thanked me but very little believed me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is some sun. Some.<br>Now off into the places rough to reach.<br>Though dry, though drowsy, all unwillingly a-wobble,<br>into the dissonant and dangerous crescendo.<br>Your work, that was done, to be done to be done to be done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gwendolyn+Brooks">Gwendolyn Brooks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402232" data-title="To the Diaspora de Gwendolyn Brooks" data-description="you did not know you were Afrika When you set out for Afrika you did not know you were going. Because you did not know you were Afrika. You did not know the Black continent that had to be reached was you. I could not have told you then that some..."></div> </div> </div>

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