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Jesse Williams’ recent BET Awards speech on Black liberation and racism woke up America and garnered new fans–including famed writer and activist Alice Walker.
The Color Purple author inspired by the Grey’s Anatomy star, she wrote a powerful poem and posted it on her website. Here It Is addresses the power of blackness, Williams’ inner and outer beauty and his revolutionary spirit.
Here it is
the beauty that scares you
-so you believe-
to death.
For he is certainly gorgeous
and he is certainly where whiteness
to your disbelief
has not wandered off
to die.
No. It is there, tawny skin, gray eyes,
a Malcolm-esque jaw. His loyal parents
may Goddess bless them
sitting proud and happy and no doubt
amazed
at what they have done.
For he is black too. And obviously
with a soul
made of everything.
Try to think bigger than you ever have
or had courage enough to do:
that blackness is not where whiteness
wanders off to die: but that it is
like the dark matter
between stars and galaxies in
the Universe
that ultimately
holds it all
together.
After signing the poem with her name, she added “Three deep bows to a beautiful son,” Entertainment Weekly noted.
Of course, Black Twitter was definitely here for all of this:
https://twitter.com/fatfemme/status/749132270137700352
https://twitter.com/thesoulasylum/status/748718508620541952
Just amazing.
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