How to Love a Black Woman
The Master Plan
Study AfricaOr travel there.Prepare conversationswith your mother, your aunts, your sistersthat are proximate, impacting, powerful.Approach themwith gentlenessand listen, listen.
Become a spongeto soak up all ofthe knowledge,wisdom, and experiencesthey have had.
Rid your vocabof words thatviolate, degrade,hurt, humiliateBlack women.
Open doorsfor them.
Wipe awaytheir tears.
Acknowledge their every beingwhen theyare near.
Speak lovingand non-sexistthings into their ears.
Prepare yourself.Build mental, physical,and spiritual wealth.
Find knowledge of self.
Rid your mindof all of the thingsyou have heardor seen in regardsto the stereotypesPeople may say or write aboutBlack women.
Promise to protectand guide their children.
Honor her words,emotions, feelings.
Write a poem Or a song for her.
Hug her.
Kiss her On the cheek.
Smile whenShe speaksabout hergreat dayOr hold herWhen she has had agray day.
Complimenther abouther hair.
Stare into her soul,for it containslight and multiple galaxies.Loving a Black womanTakes mastery.
About the Creator
Christopher Sims
Christopher D. Sims is a an artist who writes poetry, performs spoken word, and plays the hand drum, wooden flute, and the African guitar. He uses his writing, speaking, and activism for social justice movements and peace efforts.
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