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Title: For Students Post by: Tracey on October 04, 2003, 07:28:41 AM These pieces were written by a loving teacher of high school students. He is a writer.. a poet..a father..a community social activist, a beautiful spiritual African Soul..and so much more. He has spawned, encouraged, and inspired the writings of many youth through his project "The Phoenix"...Raw and uncut, the youth are able to give rise to the journey from wherever, whoever they are..and that alone..is a beautiful gift...and powerful voice indeed!
Here, from the heart and mind of Doughtry "Doc" Long is a message to, and: For Students be all-that and who you are now and always walk and talk what you say and feel for yourself and those you love stay amazed even about the morning stars and lights at night whenever wherever you awaken and find yourself changed believe in the invisible remembered song you were born and step to every day forget tomorrow's gloom yesterday's moon remember life is how you YOU dance to the music moving in the mirror of your own mind and heart stand straight up be positive but real and keep your jab sharp ~ Proverb let me see you dance and I will tell you who you were as a child let me see you dance and I will tell you how the bird in your soul seeks its freedom ~ Hip-Hop Boyz Caps turned south Dipped in baggy madness Step to radios and videos That rhyme like Automatic weapons Trying to forget the Walls they have cursed and torn down Must someday be rebuilt ~ Hip-Hop Girlz On their way to parties Dressed in confused flesh Eyes would do anything To be chosen as neon stars Wanna party all night And spin so fast They forget the lies They have told their mothers ~ Trapped You are not who you think you are, the one you try to be. The real you, the one you do not like, the one you are afraid of Turn your back on Slam the phone Keep passing in the mirror without speaking to That's the real you Nervous, fake flawed Unpredictable and spazed Knows that any day now you might pull the covers off who you think you are Who you try to be knows You might scream on who you want to be Who you trying to be Because the you you're trying to be Is like a shoe that does not fit A hat that's too large A snap shot of you caught looking the other way You don't like who you are, and who You're trying to be is afraid of you. ~ A Sense of History after slavery ended we embraced freedom and laughed and gave the children new names new faces new hair new music new sunrises new rivers and new ways then told them to remember and trust the old names old faces old hair old music old sunrises old rivers and old ways so that they would never become slaves again ~ excerpts from "Rules for Cool".. by Doughtry 'Doc' Long |