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BEAUTIFUL NEWS
Kada gradonačelnik najvećeg grada u SAD postane čovjek u čijoj biografiji piše da je ljevičar, demokrat i putnik koji je u mladosti obišao SSSR i Kubu, i da mu je supruga pjesnikinja, moram reći:
Beautiful news!
Iako su mu protivnici neke od tih biografskih detalja najviše spočitavali, 73 posto birača New Yorka nije imalo ništa PROTIV.
Dapače… "Eppur si muove" (vidi mene 
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Novi gradonačelnik New Yorka je Bill de Blasio (52). O „Big Billu“ će se u narednim godinama pričati, a ja bih za početak (skromno) predstavila njegovu suprugu Chirlane McCray (58), spisateljicu, pjesnikinju, nekadašnju iznimno aktivnu lezbijsku aktivisticu, i majku njihove djece Dantea (16) i Chiare (18).
Ne samo zbog onog da iza uspješnog muškarca stoji uspješan životni partner, nego što me postojanje ove Žene u Svijetu obradovalo kao rijetko što u zadnjih skoro šest godina, tj. otkako sam na blogu te u prilici da ne šutim, nego podijelim svoje zadovoljstvo.
(Objavljeno u 5. 11. 2013. HuffPost Live)
I Used to Think
I used to think
I can’t be a poet
because a poem is being everything you can be
in one moment,
speaking with lightning protest
unveiling a fiery intellect
or letting the words drift feather-soft
into the ears of strangers
who will suddenly understand
my beautiful and tortured soul.
But, I’ve spent my life as a Black girl
a nappy-headed, no-haired,
fat-lipped,
big-bottomed Black girl
and the poem will surely come out wrong
like me.
And, I don’t want everyone looking at me.
If I could be a cream-colored lovely
with gypsy curls,
someone’s pecan dream and sweet sensation,
I’d be poetry in motion
without saying a word
and wouldn't have to make sense if I did.
If I were beautiful, I could be angry and cute
instead of an evil, pouting mammy b**ch
a ni**er woman, passed over
conquested and passed over,
a ni**er woman
to do it to in the bushes.
My mother tells me
I used to run home crying
that I wanted to be light like my sisters.
She shook her head and told me
there was nothing wrong with my color.
She didn’t tell me I was pretty
(so my head wouldn’t swell up).
Black girls cannot afford to
have illusions of grandeur,
not ass-kicking, too-loud-laughing,
mean and loose Black girls.
And even though in Afrika
I was mistaken for someone’s fine sister or cousin
or neighbor down the way,
even though I swore
never again to walk with my head down,
ashamed,
never to care
that those people who celebrate
the popular brand of beauty
don’t see me,
it still matters.
Looking for a job, it matters.
Standing next to my lover
when someone light gets that
“she ain’t nothin come home with me” expression
it matters.
But it’s not so bad now.
I can laugh about it,
trade stories and write poems
about all those put-downs,
my rage and hiding.
I’m through waiting for minds to change,
the 60’s didn’t put me on a throne
and as many years as I’ve been
Black like ebony
Black like the night
I have seen in the mirror
and the eyes of my sisters
that pretty is the woman in darkness
who flowers with loving.
Chirlane McCray, 1983.
Post je objavljen 07.11.2013. u 13:13 sati.