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POETRY WALKER But lately you have begun to help them bury us. You who said : King was just a womanizer. Malcolm just a thug. Sojourner "folksy." Hansberry a traitor (or whore, depending). Fannie Lou Hamer merely "spunky." Zora Hurtson, Nella Larsen, Toomer: Reactionary, brainwashed, spoiled by whitefolks, "minor." Agnes Smedley, a spy. I look into your eyes you are throwing in the dirt. You, standing in the grave with me. Stop it! Each one must pull one. Look, I, temporarily on the rim of the grave, have grasped my mother's hand my father's leg There is the hand of Robeson Langston's thigh Zora's arm and hair your grandfather's lifted chin the lynched woman's elbow what you've tried to forget of your grandmother's frown Each one, pull one back into the sun We who have stood over so many graves know that no matter what they do all of us must live or none. 89
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