<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442382" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So Don't Take This Personal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of my life...<br>It was about 'they' and 'them'.<br>Very little was expressed about 'us' and 'we'.<br>Until a call for unity became popular.<br>That concept dried up quick.<br>Since nobody seemed to know how to do it! <br>It would all be so easy, <br>If we wanted to listen to each other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of my conflicts were born from ignorance.<br>Like not being Black enough.<br>Or speaking like an ill willed intellectual.<br>Wanting to be 'somebody's nigguh'.<br>Or in a crowd of nigguhs to be declared...<br>'Hey, my nigguh! '<br>Complete with street gestures.<br>In a thugged out prowl! <br>Ready for a tender ballin'.<br>Donated by some street queen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To express my knowledge, <br>About the 'sights' of togetherness.<br>You know...<br>The hand shakes and the grabbing of crotches.<br>Not each other's! <br>Not in public.<br>No labelled homo here.<br>Just donating a little spice... <br>To entice rumors.<br>And if you are a hetro...<br>A homo or two you will do.<br>Which makes all of this a lovefest! <br>And if the season is dull, <br>I'll spread a few home nesters myself.<br>There is room in the gutter for all of us! <br>And...<br>It is all about marketing! <br>So don't take this personal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=442382" data-title="So Don't Take This Personal de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Most of my life... It was about 'they' and 'them'. Very little was expressed about 'us' and 'we'. Until a call for unity became popular. That concept dried up quick. Since nobody seemed to know how to do it! It would all be so easy, If we wanted..."></div> </div> </div>

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