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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Upile Chisala is my favourite poet. Her work is profoundly healing, satisfyingly simple and wholly comforting across time and space. Thank you Upile, for being a stellar example of how artists can also be healers ❤️❤️❤️
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this beautiful book in one sitting. Such beautiful words every woman needs to read
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very powerful book full of great short poems.
As motivational it is, it is also full of truths about life as a person of color and the struggles they face daily.
Loved it so much!
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soft magic - Upile Chisala
For Ruth.
For Eunice, Veronica, Lestina, and Maggie.
It was your love. Your love was the magic.
Maybe this is all the beginning you need,
even if it’s poorly held together,
made with bare hands,
passed down many times over.
This is still a start, darling,
and you fought for it.
I am dripping melanin and honey.
I am black without apology.
Get in the habit of celebrating yourself
from skin to marrow.
You are magic.
Today and all days,
I am thankful for women of color
who love/write/create/emote
from the root
and never
apologize for their magic.
I want to think that God smiles
when a black woman is brave enough
to love herself.
Child of color on a