Let Me Free

stay with me when I say that I am angry, Black, and a woman

but i am not an angry black woman

I am not the caricature America created to fulfill its own capitalist needs 

but a result of the people's acceptance of who America has written me off to be

so if you hear a growl in my voice,

don't use it to fill your own biases

from my course, curly roots to the curve of my hips

before I speak, my words and tone are already dismissed 

so sometimes my growl is the only way you'll hear me

you don't blame the bear when it is poked 

but you constantly blame me 

my ancestral rage has become my super power

working its way into my voice when I speak

making my words scream to be free