MESSAGE TO REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN

[Bantu_Kelani]

"MESSAGE TO REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN"

Black Women, Black Women,
Hold your head up, and look ahead.
We too are needed in the revolution.

We too are strong. We too are a threat to the oppressive enemy. We are revolutionaries. We are the other half of our revolutionary men. We are their equal halves, may it be with gun in hand, or battling in streets to make this country a socialist lead.

Sisters, let's educate our people.
Combat liberalism, and combat male chauvinism. Awaken our men to the fact that we are no more nor no less than they. We are as revolutionary as they. For too long, we have been alone. For far too long we have been women without men, for far too long we have been double oppressed, not only by the capitalist society, but also by our men.

Now we are no longer alone, our men are by our sides.
We revolutionary men and women are the halves of each other.

We must continue to educate our men, and bring their minds from a male chauvinistic level to a higher level.

Our men need, want and will love the beautiful children, that come from our fruitful wombs.

They need our trust and encouragement as well as we need theirs. They need us to educate, them, the people and our children as well as we need them to educate us. Sisters, we are being called by life itself.
We are being called by the revolution.
We are mothers of revolutionaries, with us is the future of our people.

We my sisters, are mothers of revolution and within our wombs is the army of the people.

Sisters! Revolution Is Here! Bring Forth The Army! Bring Forth the Guns!

We my sisters are revolutionary women of revolutionary men!
We are mothers of revolution!

Comrade Candi Robinson
THE BLACK PANTHER
August 9, 1969.

[Poetic_Princess]

PHENOMENAL WOMEN
by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies
I'm not cute or built to
suit a model's fashion size
But when I start to tell them
They think I'm telling lies.
I say
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips
The stride of my steps
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please
and to a man
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees
Then they swarm around me
A hive of honey bees
I say
It's the fire in my eyes
And the flash of my teeth
The swing of my waist
And the joy in my feet.
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say
It's in the arch of my back
The sun of my smile
The ride of my breasts
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

This poem states it all that we Black Phenomenal Women must hold our heads high and say it aloud "I am Woman, and I am Black and Proud.