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- Today's featured poem is "Hair" by Elizabeth Acevedo. "My mother tells me to fix my hair. And so many words remain unspoken, because all I can reply is, 'You can't fix what was never broken.'" #ElizabethAcevedo #Hair #PoetryIsTruth
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I love this! I am Dominican with "hair that strangles air" and I am tired of people telling me that I should "fix" it
Highest praise for the goddess Elizabeth Acevedo! Your strength and passion is to be admired! So honored to feature your work on All Def Poetry! #PoetryIsTruth
I love this poem sooo much because I'm Dominirican, and my mom ALWAYS pressures me to straighten my hair. But I love my natural Hispanic curls
Giana G thats the thing, we get our curls from our african and taino ancestors, NOT the spanish
Truth so pure, so strong, it makes me ache. Beautifully emoted, your eloquence and courage is inspiring, thank you!
From one poet to another those were some very POWERFUL lyrics!!!👍😮
Gracias mami! You dropped the mic on that!
MAN!!!!! THAT WAS AMAZING.
*So deep and relatable. Thank you*
A list Thank You for watching!
That's you In the bubble pic A list?
jose viera Yes. Why?
You're sexy
My mother forces me to straighten my hair. It causes me alot of stress. I love my kinks, coils and curls. Beautiful poem
yes yes living with our roots and expressing our feelings uniting as black people of all beautiful
complexions
+LinzeyLiN O Thanks for watching!
I love this. I'm Panamanian and I have big curly hair.
That was beautiful!!! Thanks for posting!! Thank you Elizabeth!!
GLORIA ADAMES Thanks for watching!
hands raised *finger snaps* The sista is on point ... Love your kinky,curly,coily,wavy hair ladies !
All I can say is WOW, the Sista is so so deeo!!
I love,love this poem!!.#KeepingMyAfricanKinks
That was great
y mother tells me to fix my hair. And by “fix,” she means straighten. She means whiten. But how do you fix this ship-wrecked history of hair? The true meaning of stranded, when trusses held tight like African cousins in ship bellies, did they imagine that their great grand-children would look like us, and would hate them how we do? Trying to find ways to erase them out of our skin, iron them out of our hair, this wild tangle of hair that strangles air. You call them wild curls. I call them breathing. Ancestors spiraling. Can’t you see them in this wet hair that waves like hello? They say Dominicans can do the best hair. I mean they wash, set, flatten the spring in any loc - but what they mean is we’re the best at swallowing amnesia, in a cup of [Spanish], dreaming because we’d rather do that than live in this reality, caught between orange juice and milk, between reflections of the sun and whiteness. What they mean is, “Why would you date a black man?” What they mean is, “[Spanish]” What they mean is, “Why would two oppressed people come together? It’s two times the trouble.” What they really mean is, “Have you thought of your daughter’s hair?” And I don’t tell them that we love like sugar cane, brown skin, pale flesh, meshed in pure sweetness. The children of children of fields. Our bodies curve into one another like an echo, and I let my curtain of curls blanket us from the world, how our children will be beautiful. Of dust skin, and diamond eyes. Hair, a reclamation. How I will break pride down their back so from the moment they leave the womb they will be born in love with themselves. Momma that tells me to fix my hair, and so many words remain unspoken. Because all I can reply is, “You can’t fix what was never broken.”
Fabiola Cordova tht was so helpful !
Thank you!
Word!
Abruvanamed Sly Yasssssss! Elizabeth is AMAZING!
She is the truth
Slayed!
I feel so blessed to be African, Thank you!! 💖
+khadidiatou B Thanks for watching!
...she's Spanish.
@@user-ct8xt8ye5c it don’t matter
Awwwsome!!!!!!
+SBWilson1023 Thanks for watching!
Awesome Share
love thisss
My mom didn't know why I am the only one of all my sisters that have very tight curls. My sisters all have straight fine hair. But mine was always tight and way to curly. She permed it when I was 5 when it reached down my waist. My mom didn't know what to do with it so she "fixed" it. Now at 17 years old I am natural for 6 months and I love my fro. My mom still pressures me to perm it or flat iron it. My curls are beautiful and tight. Some people make fun of me for having "Jew curls". I love my Afro. Soy afro latina and proud.
Hell yeah. Preach, pa que sepan.
Gracias a La Misericordia!
I wanna cry I've felt this way for so long. Cos my grandmas Dominican Latina and my dads mixed w "good hair" like how I have "good hair" bc it's soft but it's 4b & kinky so I had a fear my kids won't have "good hair" if their dads hair isn't better than mine. And I've been building a relationship w my grandma and I've felt so ashamed knowing she created me and I have her hair but it's like I'm spitting in her face as if her having AFRO Latina babies was wrong after all... 😔
BOOM..!!!
Pen up, to you queen!
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what's the name of the poet at the end?
I always thought it was so weird when people tell girls with curly/kinky hair to straighten it. Why are you butting in on other people's business? Worry about your own hair.
Some needed expression.
Ok choose not to be taken seriously in the real world
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