#listentowhatsnotbeingsaid

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You have the #fREADom to #readwhatyouwant to #read. #mypoemsarenotpoems That was a #haiku! Go back, #countthesyllables. It's #fivesevenfive. -Stevie #scribesandvibes • ・・・ #vibewise: if #artisactivism... when ye speak on #bannedbooks and the #freedomtoread, be sure to impart fascism and the racist beliefs that proceed. for nothing changes your life greater than the people you meet and #thebooksthatread, they'd rather keep your mind preoccupied on a nine-to-five or sports and entertainment. why you think they force feed the myth of #BLACKPEOPLEDONTREAD?! why is the letter of the law loosely interpreted when the defendants are pigment deficient at arraignments? why's the white male patriarchy in constant fear of the #BLACKLITERATI? @cicelythegreat said #ReadWoke then they enact the stop woke act. @editortracy said #blackoutthebestsellerlist and a 75 year old white male exclaimed "white writers face a form of racism" within an industry where white males comprise 75% controlling majority. if ye #readbetweenthelines, all he did was sound off a dog whistle to take the bestsellers list back; sort of like when the maga hats invoked "take our country back." if ye #listentowhatsnotbeingsaid, their judges throw the book at us but look at us... we developed science and math and put #thewritingonthewall. @onyxeditions and #blackauthorsandillustrators got us in #blackownedbookstores purchasing #booksthatlooklikeus and that loss of #theblackdollar got these white-collar criminals utterly appalled; nevertheless i possess the gall to state "i don't care about your socioeconomic status, pronoun, or #tbrpile. no cap, if you're Black the spirit guides you to #readtheroom and for that i got love for all of y'all." -Stevie #protectblacknerdhood • #thewritingonthewall https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCGVZ2gDYy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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offering #peacetotheancestors, as eye prepare to offer #libations in celebration of your #bornphysical. as #theinkspots and #ellafitzgerald croon "#immakingbelieve i'm talking to you," these thoughts runnin' through my mind got me #walkingwiththeancestors in the #metaphysical. o grandma, since you've been gone, i've often had to say #ase then remember how you used to say #listentowhatsnotbeingsaid. would you believe, just the other day #awisewoman told me to #asktheancestors to #showmeTHATwhichiamnotseeing, without a word being said. as #sarahvaughn sings #thesearemyfavoritethings and #irememberyou through a few of your favorite things, i'm reminded of when you taught me to #playwithwords like #johncoltrane's playful rendition of #myfavoritethings. o how i miss how you'd speak of the #natkingcoletrio, #billieholiday and everything from #bebop to swing. o #stareyes, #roundmidnight we'll be listening to #theloniousmonk as #milesdavis creeps in with #roundaboutmidnight and we offer cheers to you. o grandma, since this the first birthday that i cannot kiss your forehead or hear from you, #imgonnafillmycup, 'til my time is up... until i'm amongst #theancestors with you, here's to you. -Stevie #mourningvibes https://www.instagram.com/p/B12rCT2Aw2V/?igshid=y8e1ah4ls9ft

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#themooryouknow, the more you know they don't want you know. if you know like eye know, you better #turnupabook and turn the tv down. #therevolutionwillnotbetelevised, you gotta #readbetweenthelines and #listentowhatsnotbeingsaid as the world spins 'round. i try to talk #cointelpro, government sponsored heroin and blow, too many of our brothers and sisters not in the know. #thewarondrugs is #chemicalwarfare; it's hard to stay afloat when the government's flooding your neighborhood with drugs. conservatives champion #reaganomics, the klan resurfaced under the maga hat wave, all eye see is how crack wiped out #blackcommunities. #mypoemsarenotpoems... but you don't hear me though; eye echo #knowledge - #economicindependence - and #blackunity yet your fixation on integration ain't doing nothing but taking #theblackdollar from the #blackcommunity. there's a war going on outside no man is safe from; eye polly wit' da prodigies and gallivant with #thegodsandearths but first things first: flint still got dirty water and we still need to cleanse our brothers and sisters off the drugs. how long before you see the government has been playing dirty? take it from me, #theamericandream ain't worth the sleep; #staywOke brothers and sisters, #youareworthy. #keepyaheadup like pac said yet remember how they tried to get down on afeni in new york; lest we forget how they turned on assata in jersey. why the government agencies gotta play flagrantly? in the game of life, eye seen they was foul as a child; the alphabet boys tried to keep me from reading, eye read 'em a mile away - my #thirdeye is amazing b. why the cross-dresser wanna keep me in the crosshairs? how long before you see the all-seeing eye is trying to erase us from the history pages, painstakingly? how you lack #knowledgeofself, when #itwaswritten - in hieroglyphics and your image is sitting in stone; we are readers #beyondthebooks - before the books - black man home, #theancestors left their mark blatantly. -Stevie https://www.instagram.com/p/BuMFj_XB7Oz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=io3wo3436j2h