More Important Than Love

About this poem

I decided to write a poem that tries to encompass everything that I have read about the struggles of Black people in America. I wanted to express how there is pain and beauty, hatred and love, all intermingling with each other throughout all of the readings. What I really wanted to convey was that there is two sides to everything. I know the main point is the idea of fundamental dualism, and how it shapes all of this literature. I think the most striking thing was to read how white people spend all of their time hating black people, studying them, laboring over their hatred, so much that it has to be something of love. It has to be a supreme love that they (racists and bigots) do not fully understand or grasp. I wanted this poem to be about the feelings that I felt when I read these books, and how it has made me come to realizations about myself in the process. more »