Believing I am not good enough is not the same as believing I am not acceptable.
When I believe I am not good enough, I am listening to judgments from within.
When I believe I am not acceptable, I am listening to judgments from without.
When I learn to believe I am good enough, I am listening to the way things really are.
Green Pastures (1936)
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About what He’d created
When He heard that ukulele
Making music so carnal.
Angels with long white beards
Confronted Old King Pharaoh
In a tsunami of black and white
Color at the Cotton Club.
2 ferrets and 2 foxes,
2 aardvarks and 2 asses --
Who would want to be
Saved for a white heaven?
A great migration of black
Americans were fleeing North
From the idyllic South into
A rainbow over the arc.
“I’d rather play a maid
For $800 dollars a week,”
Hattie McDonald clutched her Oscar,
“Than be a maid for considerably less.”
As James Baldwin wrote,
Black actors had to smuggle
Reality into their parts
For any deeper humanity.
“Even bein’ God ain’t no bed
Of roses,” DeLord warned
His chosen to practice
Endurance and patience.
[Disposable Poem September 18, 2009]
Dr. Mike
HK, : )
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