Create Your Own
I am remembering Sandra Bland.
Create Your Own
I am remembering Sandra Bland.
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
Loud
Dc
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
Loud
Dc
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of a woman who wishes to be heard/ the voice of a woman who amplifies her love/
KB
Canton
This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of a woman who wishes to be heard/ the voice of a woman who amplifies her love/
KB
Canton
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
IN THE BEAUTY OF YOUR SKIN
DOLORES
This Is a Love...
IN THE BEAUTY OF YOUR SKIN
DOLORES
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that listens to the sounds
of hope and peace and patience
and sits among those who have
fallen and are afraid to get up
Revere, Mass.
This Is a Love...
This is a love that listens to the sounds
of hope and peace and patience
and sits among those who have
fallen and are afraid to get up
Revere, Mass.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
If you focus on the finger while you’re pointing at the moon
You’re gonna miss all of the glory- it obliterates your mood
It gets blurry and you worry if she’s coming back to you
Should’ve learned to love to learn like Mary McLeod Bethune
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination
we accept responsibility for our vilification
I’m paraphrasing but if it’s really love like Peabo be sayin'
It’s the love Sanite Belair had for the Haitians
If it isn’t love like Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky & Mike
Ralph & Johnny then I guess you best be ready to fight
For the glory of love/ All of my notorious thugs
John Brown or John Gottlieb, it’s not me its us
It’s in uncle ben’s speech/ every person who dares to teach
What’s verboten/ It’s in Oakland where breakfast was free
Víctor Mosquera murdered for protecting Cali
Take a moment, espera, what does love make you wanna be?
Take it from Mz Adu/Get some love in your life
It’s always gon’ be stronger than pride
dY
st croix
This Is a Love...
If you focus on the finger while you’re pointing at the moon
You’re gonna miss all of the glory- it obliterates your mood
It gets blurry and you worry if she’s coming back to you
Should’ve learned to love to learn like Mary McLeod Bethune
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination
we accept responsibility for our vilification
I’m paraphrasing but if it’s really love like Peabo be sayin'
It’s the love Sanite Belair had for the Haitians
If it isn’t love like Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky & Mike
Ralph & Johnny then I guess you best be ready to fight
For the glory of love/ All of my notorious thugs
John Brown or John Gottlieb, it’s not me its us
It’s in uncle ben’s speech/ every person who dares to teach
What’s verboten/ It’s in Oakland where breakfast was free
Víctor Mosquera murdered for protecting Cali
Take a moment, espera, what does love make you wanna be?
Take it from Mz Adu/Get some love in your life
It’s always gon’ be stronger than pride
dY
st croix
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is our voice/ Our voice is powerful/ So powerful we can be heard a mile away/ Our voice is brave like a lion’s roar/ we don’t care what people say or do to us/ Our voice is sometimes quiet/ Almost as quiet as a mouse/Our voice is beautiful/Like flowers blooming/Our voice is not small nor big/Our voice is medium/Our voice is calm/Like soothing lullabies, like the wind in the leaves under a tree/ Our voice is strong/Like the Incredible Hulk, like titanium/Our voice is scary like Jason chasing you/ Like Michael Meyers/Our is voice is ours/No one can control it/Our voice is royal/Like a palace, like kings and queens, diamonds and jewels/Our voice is the key to success/The Key to the universe/The key to everyone’s hearts/Our voice is everything like the oxygen we breathe/Like the whole world,/Our voice is clever/Like Albert Einstein/Our voice is loud, loud and proud/Like the crowd/Our voice is precious just like us and just like our hearts /Our voices are are different and nobody can change that
Ms. C's Class
Michigan
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is our voice/ Our voice is powerful/ So powerful we can be heard a mile away/ Our voice is brave like a lion’s roar/ we don’t care what people say or do to us/ Our voice is sometimes quiet/ Almost as quiet as a mouse/Our voice is beautiful/Like flowers blooming/Our voice is not small nor big/Our voice is medium/Our voice is calm/Like soothing lullabies, like the wind in the leaves under a tree/ Our voice is strong/Like the Incredible Hulk, like titanium/Our voice is scary like Jason chasing you/ Like Michael Meyers/Our is voice is ours/No one can control it/Our voice is royal/Like a palace, like kings and queens, diamonds and jewels/Our voice is the key to success/The Key to the universe/The key to everyone’s hearts/Our voice is everything like the oxygen we breathe/Like the whole world,/Our voice is clever/Like Albert Einstein/Our voice is loud, loud and proud/Like the crowd/Our voice is precious just like us and just like our hearts /Our voices are are different and nobody can change that
Ms. C's Class
Michigan
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is the sunrise on a misty morning. Light. Peaceful.
Elle Hope
Las Vegas
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is the sunrise on a misty morning. Light. Peaceful.
Elle Hope
Las Vegas
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is / an endangered coward / a lasting knife wound/ two boys moaning silhouette / as they find solace / in each other’s mouths / my voice is typical ‘ even now while the moon / is afraid to shine / it’s light on me.
Deon
Bronx
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is / an endangered coward / a lasting knife wound/ two boys moaning silhouette / as they find solace / in each other’s mouths / my voice is typical ‘ even now while the moon / is afraid to shine / it’s light on me.
Deon
Bronx
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that is smooth as butter sliding down a hot knife/ your love smothers me like being wrapped up in a storm / your love is powerful earth shattering like the flapping of butterfly wings/ This love is pure sweet but filled with vanity and unruly pleasure that can not be contained by restrictions or unrealistic expectations
Chrissy
Chicago
This Is a Love...
This is a love that is smooth as butter sliding down a hot knife/ your love smothers me like being wrapped up in a storm / your love is powerful earth shattering like the flapping of butterfly wings/ This love is pure sweet but filled with vanity and unruly pleasure that can not be contained by restrictions or unrealistic expectations
Chrissy
Chicago
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a voice that despite it’s fears booms over mountains.
Chelsea McLin
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a voice that despite it’s fears booms over mountains.
Chelsea McLin
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice hesitates sometimes. My voice searches for the right words, but maybe my voice needs to stop waiting. Maybe all of our voices should stop waiting. The moment is now.
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice hesitates sometimes. My voice searches for the right words, but maybe my voice needs to stop waiting. Maybe all of our voices should stop waiting. The moment is now.
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
My love grows deep into the soil of the earth and makes the force of love in the universe
EJ
Create Your Own
My love grows deep into the soil of the earth and makes the force of love in the universe
EJ
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
Yo up should buy an Xbox series X or a ps5 for a person that voice can not be heard
Jeyrin
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
Yo up should buy an Xbox series X or a ps5 for a person that voice can not be heard
Jeyrin
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
This is my voice it is here
Create Your Own
This is my voice it is here
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
That makes you feel happy, and appreciated….
You want to release this feeling….
You don’t want to bottle up your feelings…
You can’t bottle up for feelings forever…
You see that they make you happy…
They are your happiness…
You feel so warm and fuzzy when they are around…
Love is real….
You feel that love is real…
This Is a Love...
That makes you feel happy, and appreciated….
You want to release this feeling….
You don’t want to bottle up your feelings…
You can’t bottle up for feelings forever…
You see that they make you happy…
They are your happiness…
You feel so warm and fuzzy when they are around…
Love is real….
You feel that love is real…
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
That love your mom gives you and love,
Get embarrassed,
Is how much your mom loves you.
That love your mom gives you you should be happy.
.
This Is a Love...
That love your mom gives you and love,
Get embarrassed,
Is how much your mom loves you.
That love your mom gives you you should be happy.
.
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
I want to buy an oculus quest 2 for a person that’s voice can not be heard
Jeyrin
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
I want to buy an oculus quest 2 for a person that’s voice can not be heard
Jeyrin
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
You never loved me mom when i needed you woooowwooo
PETE DAVENSIN SNL
Create Your Own
You never loved me mom when i needed you woooowwooo
PETE DAVENSIN SNL
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
I want the world to not hate each other I want people to love every one
Kasen
I Want... / I Feel…
I want the world to not hate each other I want people to love every one
Kasen
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a voice, needing of food and shelter, do you know where this voice comes from? Yes, a kitten/puppy.
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a voice, needing of food and shelter, do you know where this voice comes from? Yes, a kitten/puppy.
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
I type in my mom
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
I type in my mom
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a voice that deserves to be heard. This is and ear that needs to hear.
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a voice that deserves to be heard. This is and ear that needs to hear.
Black Voices Matter
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Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
this is the voice within my voice saying sorry
John R Linker
El Segundo
This Is the Voice of...
this is the voice within my voice saying sorry
John R Linker
El Segundo
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
13.82 billion years ago, when our universe, supposedly, was made. Every speck of energy in our universe was jammed together in one ball. And this ball exploded outwards with an unimaginable force, creating matter and pushing it outwards to create the billions of galaxies in our universe. It spread matter at a rate of 300 million meters per second. Our universe expanded, growing at a rate faster than the speed of light. The universe was about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit at this time. The matter formed particles and atoms, the stuff that would form stars, galaxies, every planet, and every living organism. About 10.32 billion years after this, (3.5 billion years ago), the first life on Earth was, supposedly, born. It was the single celled organism, which was to evolve into all life on Earth.
And then, 10,319,999,986 years later, (14 years ago), I was born. In a messy, chaotic world. Filled with bad people. And some good people. Selfish people. And some selfless people. Lazy people. And some hard working people. Jealous people. Mean people. Nice people. There is Global Warming. And war. And murder. And hate. And a virus that people refuse to protect each other, and themselves, from. And inequality. Poverty. Homelessness. Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Slavery. Rape. Rights being denied to people just because they are different. And the fact that most humans are ironically inhumane. And it saddens me that after so much was done to bring us here, we are unappreciative and hateful.
Like many others, I went through loneliness and bullying, but after searching for forever, I found many wonderful friends. And then, suddenly, I was no longer alone. Like a certain ball of energy after it exploded and expanded the entire universe. It was alone. And then suddenly, the universe was big, bright, and hopeful. In the future, I hope the world will be a better place. I hope that one day, people will be sensible enough to talk things out instead of starting a war. I hope that people will live in peace with each other. I hope that we will take care of our Earth. I hope that we will treat every living organism with kindness. But, unfortunately, hope can only do so much.
Swe Jolie Grashin
South Bronx
Create Your Own
13.82 billion years ago, when our universe, supposedly, was made. Every speck of energy in our universe was jammed together in one ball. And this ball exploded outwards with an unimaginable force, creating matter and pushing it outwards to create the billions of galaxies in our universe. It spread matter at a rate of 300 million meters per second. Our universe expanded, growing at a rate faster than the speed of light. The universe was about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit at this time. The matter formed particles and atoms, the stuff that would form stars, galaxies, every planet, and every living organism. About 10.32 billion years after this, (3.5 billion years ago), the first life on Earth was, supposedly, born. It was the single celled organism, which was to evolve into all life on Earth.
And then, 10,319,999,986 years later, (14 years ago), I was born. In a messy, chaotic world. Filled with bad people. And some good people. Selfish people. And some selfless people. Lazy people. And some hard working people. Jealous people. Mean people. Nice people. There is Global Warming. And war. And murder. And hate. And a virus that people refuse to protect each other, and themselves, from. And inequality. Poverty. Homelessness. Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Slavery. Rape. Rights being denied to people just because they are different. And the fact that most humans are ironically inhumane. And it saddens me that after so much was done to bring us here, we are unappreciative and hateful.
Like many others, I went through loneliness and bullying, but after searching for forever, I found many wonderful friends. And then, suddenly, I was no longer alone. Like a certain ball of energy after it exploded and expanded the entire universe. It was alone. And then suddenly, the universe was big, bright, and hopeful. In the future, I hope the world will be a better place. I hope that one day, people will be sensible enough to talk things out instead of starting a war. I hope that people will live in peace with each other. I hope that we will take care of our Earth. I hope that we will treat every living organism with kindness. But, unfortunately, hope can only do so much.
Swe Jolie Grashin
South Bronx
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
Black, white, yellow, green
We’re all people, can’t you see?
Brown, orange, pink, and blue,
Why hate us ‘cause we have a
different skin color from you?
Red, purple, magenta, light blue,
Why can’t we co-exist with you?
Gray, cyan, light purple, dark green,
We were enslaved since the early 15’th
Dark red, dark cyan, and dark blue
Since then we’ve been treated as less than you!
This racism has been going on nonstop,
It’s unjust, unfair, and has got to stop!
We built this country from bottom to top,
Yet we are hated and jailed…
And killed.
Swe Jolie Grashin
South Bronx
Create Your Own
Black, white, yellow, green
We’re all people, can’t you see?
Brown, orange, pink, and blue,
Why hate us ‘cause we have a
different skin color from you?
Red, purple, magenta, light blue,
Why can’t we co-exist with you?
Gray, cyan, light purple, dark green,
We were enslaved since the early 15’th
Dark red, dark cyan, and dark blue
Since then we’ve been treated as less than you!
This racism has been going on nonstop,
It’s unjust, unfair, and has got to stop!
We built this country from bottom to top,
Yet we are hated and jailed…
And killed.
Swe Jolie Grashin
South Bronx
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
I want to live in an equal world.
I want people's voices to matter.
I want to be free.
I want to be myself.
I want to be "black enough"
Even though I'm half white.
I want to be able to love whoever I love.
I want to know that that I want too much.
I want to be the change that I want to see in the world.
I want to make a difference.
I want wanting to be enough.
I want everyone,
Every human on Earth,
To be equal.
Truly,
Equal.
Swe Jolie Grashin
South Bronx
I Want... / I Feel…
I want to live in an equal world.
I want people's voices to matter.
I want to be free.
I want to be myself.
I want to be "black enough"
Even though I'm half white.
I want to be able to love whoever I love.
I want to know that that I want too much.
I want to be the change that I want to see in the world.
I want to make a difference.
I want wanting to be enough.
I want everyone,
Every human on Earth,
To be equal.
Truly,
Equal.
Swe Jolie Grashin
South Bronx
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that you can't control. The type of love that you can't keep in a jar. A thing that makes you feel warm like eating a roasted marshmallow. When you love them so much you are willing to take a bullet for them. When you cant even express your love for them when they ask " why do you love me?"
Hannah
This Is a Love...
This is a love that you can't control. The type of love that you can't keep in a jar. A thing that makes you feel warm like eating a roasted marshmallow. When you love them so much you are willing to take a bullet for them. When you cant even express your love for them when they ask " why do you love me?"
Hannah
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
I want for the whole world to be united and to be able to communicate to each other.
Peter
New York City
I Want... / I Feel…
I want for the whole world to be united and to be able to communicate to each other.
Peter
New York City
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
Christina
Create Your Own
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
Christina
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that we are still learning to use. That continues to spread like a wildfire; burning deep in our veins.
Katherine
This Is a Love...
This is a love that we are still learning to use. That continues to spread like a wildfire; burning deep in our veins.
Katherine
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that makes you feel red by thinking more into a thought
Kalese
This Is a Love...
This is a love that makes you feel red by thinking more into a thought
Kalese
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is a love that never gets old a love that you will forever cherish a love that can never be broken
Ariana R
This Is the Voice of...
This is a love that never gets old a love that you will forever cherish a love that can never be broken
Ariana R
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is a call out for help,
a cry in silence,
a scream in desperation.
This is a voice in need of something better,
meaningful and
powerful.
j
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is a call out for help,
a cry in silence,
a scream in desperation.
This is a voice in need of something better,
meaningful and
powerful.
j
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
this is a love that feels peoples heart up when there down. this is love that picks people up when their falling down . this is a love oh this is a love
Tana
This Is a Love...
this is a love that feels peoples heart up when there down. this is love that picks people up when their falling down . this is a love oh this is a love
Tana
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of Tamirah climbing over mountains
tamirah
This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of Tamirah climbing over mountains
tamirah
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that is strong and powerful.
Maresha C
A
This Is a Love...
This is a love that is strong and powerful.
Maresha C
A
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is the whisper in the roar of lions/ This is a voice that tears down pride from the inside
MR. K
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is the whisper in the roar of lions/ This is a voice that tears down pride from the inside
MR. K
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is the roar of a lion and it screams the pain I feel
Nyleha Keys
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is the roar of a lion and it screams the pain I feel
Nyleha Keys
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that fills you up / A love that breaks down walls and builds up trust / A love so great it makes you feel warm
This Is a Love...
This is a love that fills you up / A love that breaks down walls and builds up trust / A love so great it makes you feel warm
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
I want my environment to feel safe when they walk out their homes every single day . I feel we have the need to keep ourselves safe. I want us to stop the violence. I feel it will make america great again.
Leandre
I Want... / I Feel…
I want my environment to feel safe when they walk out their homes every single day . I feel we have the need to keep ourselves safe. I want us to stop the violence. I feel it will make america great again.
Leandre
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that is tough,rough its the type that can get your heart cuffed.
Jeremiah
This Is a Love...
This is a love that is tough,rough its the type that can get your heart cuffed.
Jeremiah
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is heart of love
This Is a Love...
This is heart of love
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that { i don't know}
Ali
This Is a Love...
This is a love that { i don't know}
Ali
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is a Voice of... my friends cause it helps speak freely then keeping your mouth closed.
Immanual
This Is the Voice of...
This is a Voice of... my friends cause it helps speak freely then keeping your mouth closed.
Immanual
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
i want to be a chef or engineer. because i love to cook for my family, and i want i to be an engineer because i want to make for people to use.
Une L.
I Want... / I Feel…
i want to be a chef or engineer. because i love to cook for my family, and i want i to be an engineer because i want to make for people to use.
Une L.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that wants everyone to be happy and confident.
nadia
This Is a Love...
This is a love that wants everyone to be happy and confident.
nadia
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is incomplete.This is a voice cause i have quite frankly firgured it out yet
Sanei
akron
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is incomplete.This is a voice cause i have quite frankly firgured it out yet
Sanei
akron
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is a voice of a child who once was silenced
layna
This Is the Voice of...
This is a voice of a child who once was silenced
layna
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a Love that grows and fills, love that endlessly consumes.
Azeira B.
This Is a Love...
This is a Love that grows and fills, love that endlessly consumes.
Azeira B.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
Carrie B. That cannot be undone, this is a love that cannot go unacknowledged.
This Is a Love...
Carrie B. That cannot be undone, this is a love that cannot go unacknowledged.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of a soldier,
Scraping his way through the rugged dirt
Zack P
This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of a soldier,
Scraping his way through the rugged dirt
Zack P
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice like wind. It moves everyone
This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice like wind. It moves everyone
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that inspires and brings passion to others
Audrey L.
This Is a Love...
This is a love that inspires and brings passion to others
Audrey L.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
That is hurt
lauren j.
This Is a Love...
That is hurt
lauren j.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that oozes out of our skin and spills onto the future generations
Nyjah Watson
This Is a Love...
This is a love that oozes out of our skin and spills onto the future generations
Nyjah Watson
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My Voice is strange. This is a voice of diversity and uniqueness.
Avery S
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My Voice is strange. This is a voice of diversity and uniqueness.
Avery S
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
that lives through the lives of you and me.
Julianna M
This Is a Love...
that lives through the lives of you and me.
Julianna M
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
my voice is a stone wall. this is the voice that moves mountains
Nathaniel
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
my voice is a stone wall. this is the voice that moves mountains
Nathaniel
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This Is a Love that knows no bounds. That echoes across the sea and rounds the Earth.
gina g
This Is a Love...
This Is a Love that knows no bounds. That echoes across the sea and rounds the Earth.
gina g
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
the discriminant. this is the voice of the one seen as different. the voice of the soul, the aura and the color of the one it all belongs with.
Jewel J
Ohio
This Is the Voice of...
the discriminant. this is the voice of the one seen as different. the voice of the soul, the aura and the color of the one it all belongs with.
Jewel J
Ohio
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
of people who cry out but are not heard. The people who waited to long for the violence to stop.
This Is the Voice of...
of people who cry out but are not heard. The people who waited to long for the violence to stop.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of the crowd that needs to be heard.
Miranda A.
Akron
This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of the crowd that needs to be heard.
Miranda A.
Akron
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
I want a world were the ways of hatred and violence based on ones skin color dont apply
Parson Pierre Jordan
akron
I Want... / I Feel…
I want a world were the ways of hatred and violence based on ones skin color dont apply
Parson Pierre Jordan
akron
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This Is a Love that knows no bounds, a love that crashes through like the beaches waves, a love that flows around you such as the warm wind on a summer day. A love that whispers soft in your ears, and leaves in it's wake a shiver and a boom.
Abigail S.
Akron, Ohio
This Is a Love...
This Is a Love that knows no bounds, a love that crashes through like the beaches waves, a love that flows around you such as the warm wind on a summer day. A love that whispers soft in your ears, and leaves in it's wake a shiver and a boom.
Abigail S.
Akron, Ohio
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This Is the Voice of the People, who protest and strike at what's wrong.
Jaden M
This Is the Voice of...
This Is the Voice of the People, who protest and strike at what's wrong.
Jaden M
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a love that is buried very deep and every time it sees, it does a leap.
Camille J Ciarlariello
Ohio
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
This is a love that is buried very deep and every time it sees, it does a leap.
Camille J Ciarlariello
Ohio
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is a bundle of joy
A voice that matters
A voice that’s not from a Boy
My voice is a voice when you come near
Everyone will be happy to hear
Dariyah Adams
Akron
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is a bundle of joy
A voice that matters
A voice that’s not from a Boy
My voice is a voice when you come near
Everyone will be happy to hear
Dariyah Adams
Akron
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is of someone begging for true freedom
Cupid A
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is of someone begging for true freedom
Cupid A
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
This is a voice that is prominent, loud, and heard. Through suffering and violence; the pertinence of their words.
Stanley N.
Create Your Own
This is a voice that is prominent, loud, and heard. Through suffering and violence; the pertinence of their words.
Stanley N.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This Is a Love, that brings us together
Dylan
Green, Ohio
This Is a Love...
This Is a Love, that brings us together
Dylan
Green, Ohio
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that is able to consume your body and mind
Makayla U.
This Is a Love...
This is a love that is able to consume your body and mind
Makayla U.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This Is a love that makes your soul feel as bright as the sun
Vivian G
no
This Is a Love...
This Is a love that makes your soul feel as bright as the sun
Vivian G
no
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is meant to be heard. But silenced by others.
William M
Balls
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is meant to be heard. But silenced by others.
William M
Balls
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is powerful to the human eye. It screams with kindness and love.
Hannah R.
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is powerful to the human eye. It screams with kindness and love.
Hannah R.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the Voice of a family full of ferocious fighters
Arianna C.
Ohio
This Is the Voice of...
This is the Voice of a family full of ferocious fighters
Arianna C.
Ohio
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This Is a Love that runs deep.
Carmen M.
This Is a Love...
This Is a Love that runs deep.
Carmen M.
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love stronger than any one person
This is a love between all
JC
This Is a Love...
This is a love stronger than any one person
This is a love between all
JC
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that soars through the air/
a love that will laugh and cry and feel with you
kazia b
This Is a Love...
This is a love that soars through the air/
a love that will laugh and cry and feel with you
kazia b
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is of that of a protest yelling for freedom
Lex Z
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice is of that of a protest yelling for freedom
Lex Z
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
love
This Is the Voice of...
love
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
that is dragged down by the anchor of regret and apology...that I cannot speak louder...because I did not act faster.
Jennifer K.
New Jersey
This Is a Love...
that is dragged down by the anchor of regret and apology...that I cannot speak louder...because I did not act faster.
Jennifer K.
New Jersey
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the Voice of Black people who give you diversity and awareness of Earth/ And our colors can speak you nameless and endless in peace/Wherever you go you will see me/ Because I am your nation and religion/Because I am your country and I am your language/Because I am your culture and history/Because we are all in one color/Just because it is black that creates every color/ till everything gets white
Erkut Tokman
İstanbul, Turkey
This Is the Voice of...
This is the Voice of Black people who give you diversity and awareness of Earth/ And our colors can speak you nameless and endless in peace/Wherever you go you will see me/ Because I am your nation and religion/Because I am your country and I am your language/Because I am your culture and history/Because we are all in one color/Just because it is black that creates every color/ till everything gets white
Erkut Tokman
İstanbul, Turkey
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of Michael, my uncle who governed a city when they said people with his skin couldn't.
This is the voice of Jonlasha, my wife, who loves a white man and helped me see.
Peter
Cleveland
This Is the Voice of...
This is the voice of Michael, my uncle who governed a city when they said people with his skin couldn't.
This is the voice of Jonlasha, my wife, who loves a white man and helped me see.
Peter
Cleveland
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
This is a love that cares for others/ a love that fuels a community for generations to come/ this is strength and resilience/ This is a love that refuses to quit, even when the going gets tough/ a love that families speak of as a sign that love perseveres through the hardships
Bailey McKarns
Carrollton, OH
Create Your Own
This is a love that cares for others/ a love that fuels a community for generations to come/ this is strength and resilience/ This is a love that refuses to quit, even when the going gets tough/ a love that families speak of as a sign that love perseveres through the hardships
Bailey McKarns
Carrollton, OH
Black Voices Matter
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My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice—silenced by caste—asphyxiated my sanguine heart.
Jennifer Minotti
Cambridge, MA
My Voice Is / This Is A Voice....
My voice—silenced by caste—asphyxiated my sanguine heart.
Jennifer Minotti
Cambridge, MA
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
a person with white skin/Crying out to people everywhere to Listen & Learn from Black Voices/To realize that the choir of America is only melodious if all voices are a part of it.
Jerry Feezel
Kent
This Is the Voice of...
a person with white skin/Crying out to people everywhere to Listen & Learn from Black Voices/To realize that the choir of America is only melodious if all voices are a part of it.
Jerry Feezel
Kent
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
IF WE WOULD ONLY SEE WITH OUR 💕 HEART
The Nightly news poisons our minds,
Stretching the stories to fill their time,
Most of the time its only half the story.
When they have nothing to report ,
They go over the latest news,
Over and Over and Over again,
Like beating a dead horse.
I can’t stand it!
You have the lefts,
You have the rights,
And you have the right now’s .
We have Black,
We have White,
We have Yellow ,
And Brown.
But did you know,
We are all the same color on the inside?
We all bleed red,
And cry the same tears.
Why don’t you close your eyes,
And imagine you can’t see color,
Feel with your heart,
Do you still feel hate?
I bet you’d feel a peacefulness,
A feeling of Unconditional Love.
Why do we have to be so divided??
Why do we have to choose a side?
Can’t we just choose not to choose?
If I must choose I choose Love.
Because your life matters. ❤️
Lisa Meese
Canton, Ohio
Create Your Own
IF WE WOULD ONLY SEE WITH OUR 💕 HEART
The Nightly news poisons our minds,
Stretching the stories to fill their time,
Most of the time its only half the story.
When they have nothing to report ,
They go over the latest news,
Over and Over and Over again,
Like beating a dead horse.
I can’t stand it!
You have the lefts,
You have the rights,
And you have the right now’s .
We have Black,
We have White,
We have Yellow ,
And Brown.
But did you know,
We are all the same color on the inside?
We all bleed red,
And cry the same tears.
Why don’t you close your eyes,
And imagine you can’t see color,
Feel with your heart,
Do you still feel hate?
I bet you’d feel a peacefulness,
A feeling of Unconditional Love.
Why do we have to be so divided??
Why do we have to choose a side?
Can’t we just choose not to choose?
If I must choose I choose Love.
Because your life matters. ❤️
Lisa Meese
Canton, Ohio
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
This is the Voice of Omar (عمر بن الخطاب), scolding the tyrant of Egypt, "How dare you enslave those who were born Free!"
Ahmad AlKhatib
Amman
This Is the Voice of...
This is the Voice of Omar (عمر بن الخطاب), scolding the tyrant of Egypt, "How dare you enslave those who were born Free!"
Ahmad AlKhatib
Amman
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
That opens opens opens and says over again and again you are a big love you are a big sky you are my big bleeding heart.
Viola Lee
Chicago, Illinois
This Is a Love...
That opens opens opens and says over again and again you are a big love you are a big sky you are my big bleeding heart.
Viola Lee
Chicago, Illinois
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
This is a magnificent magnified voice
Jacquie Peoples Dukes
Kent, OH
Create Your Own
This is a magnificent magnified voice
Jacquie Peoples Dukes
Kent, OH
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
a people whose screams have largely been inaudible to those that have turned their backs to our misery
Michael Black
Akron, Oh
This Is the Voice of...
a people whose screams have largely been inaudible to those that have turned their backs to our misery
Michael Black
Akron, Oh
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
We Are Not The Color of our Skin
The color of our skin is not who we are.
Our “bodies” are just shells.
Shells that house our souls.
If we could see inside others,
we’d see we are all made of the same thing
And we all are connected by our souls
connected to each other.
When you judge someone
You are really mirroring yourself
What you don’t like about them
You don’t like about yourself.
So lets start first by loving ourselves
Taking inventory
Seeing what needs healed
Though you don’t want to relive it
You need to bring it up, to get it out.
You’ll see that a lot of your behaviors
We’re formed from your experiences
Growing up.
But your past doesn’t define you
You can make your Present any way you want,
Take your time and figure out
Figure out how you want it all to play out
You are the creator.
Create Love not Hate.
Lisa Meese
Canton,OH
Create Your Own
We Are Not The Color of our Skin
The color of our skin is not who we are.
Our “bodies” are just shells.
Shells that house our souls.
If we could see inside others,
we’d see we are all made of the same thing
And we all are connected by our souls
connected to each other.
When you judge someone
You are really mirroring yourself
What you don’t like about them
You don’t like about yourself.
So lets start first by loving ourselves
Taking inventory
Seeing what needs healed
Though you don’t want to relive it
You need to bring it up, to get it out.
You’ll see that a lot of your behaviors
We’re formed from your experiences
Growing up.
But your past doesn’t define you
You can make your Present any way you want,
Take your time and figure out
Figure out how you want it all to play out
You are the creator.
Create Love not Hate.
Lisa Meese
Canton,OH
Black Voices Matter
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This Is the Voice of...
Pain... the voice of generational trauma
This is the voice that sounded over the Mayflower and crashed on shores of resiliency
Honey Bell-Bey
Cleveland, Poet Laureate
This Is the Voice of...
Pain... the voice of generational trauma
This is the voice that sounded over the Mayflower and crashed on shores of resiliency
Honey Bell-Bey
Cleveland, Poet Laureate
Black Voices Matter
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I Want... / I Feel…
I want my people to be educated.
I want my people to breath.
I feel so tired. I feel so tired of repeating myself. I feel bent educating myself more and more to supply actions steps for our oppressor and they still have educated themselves none.
I feel stuck in a foam pit.
I want joy love and support for my people.
I want them to smile more. I want them to laugh.
I want them to enjoy the very life the Lord has blessed them with.
And with education there will be frustration.
But with education there will be liberation.
Chazzlyn Jackson
I Want... / I Feel…
I want my people to be educated.
I want my people to breath.
I feel so tired. I feel so tired of repeating myself. I feel bent educating myself more and more to supply actions steps for our oppressor and they still have educated themselves none.
I feel stuck in a foam pit.
I want joy love and support for my people.
I want them to smile more. I want them to laugh.
I want them to enjoy the very life the Lord has blessed them with.
And with education there will be frustration.
But with education there will be liberation.
Chazzlyn Jackson
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
My voice is as sharp as the knife used to cut the fruit from my ancestors' tree. My voice cracks like the earth's hardness beneath my feet. This voice is for the women before me. This voice is for my niece. This voice is for those who are too afraid and too convinced that they are too weak to speak. This is a love that doesn't judge. A love that wraps around you and grips you so tight, it does not compare to a hug. This is a love as warm as the sun.
Jala
Create Your Own
My voice is as sharp as the knife used to cut the fruit from my ancestors' tree. My voice cracks like the earth's hardness beneath my feet. This voice is for the women before me. This voice is for my niece. This voice is for those who are too afraid and too convinced that they are too weak to speak. This is a love that doesn't judge. A love that wraps around you and grips you so tight, it does not compare to a hug. This is a love as warm as the sun.
Jala
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that is silent but ever present...like a mother holding a child within her womb...It's a love that we can call our own...like the first man who called the Sun a son...It's a love that...when broken down...brings us back to the first times...we sat down by campfires...and listened to everyone's stories.
Christian
Kent
This Is a Love...
This is a love that is silent but ever present...like a mother holding a child within her womb...It's a love that we can call our own...like the first man who called the Sun a son...It's a love that...when broken down...brings us back to the first times...we sat down by campfires...and listened to everyone's stories.
Christian
Kent
Black Voices Matter
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This Is a Love...
This is a love that expands, envelops and protects. This is a love that brightens the day with hope. This is a love that understands. This is a love that fights.
Alicia
This Is a Love...
This is a love that expands, envelops and protects. This is a love that brightens the day with hope. This is a love that understands. This is a love that fights.
Alicia
Black Voices Matter
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Create Your Own
This is the voice of those who can’t speak/ the ones who have fallen on their knees/ the ones you put 6 feet underneath/ after their ancestors built the land you get to keep.
Florida
Create Your Own
This is the voice of those who can’t speak/ the ones who have fallen on their knees/ the ones you put 6 feet underneath/ after their ancestors built the land you get to keep.
Florida
Black Voices Matter
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