Daddy Said

Daddy said

"Niggas be mean

spittin' poison like vipers

twisted in love"

Been Nigga watchin'

catchin' ev'ry twitch of lips

ev'ry blinkin' eye

Niggas cuss like a mothafucka

with cadence and venom

in a dance that sparkles

with laughter and fear

Their eyes stalk ev'ry doubt

ev'ry chick and dick in stride;

snatch all like owls and lions

on the night prowl of prey

Niggas shoot deadlier without thought

The young lay dead as puddin' proof

A sorry sight, the pints of blood

drunk by the street, not the ill

Too soon buried and forgot

anotha obit thrown to the waste

*Black Woman

Th day I met u I saw strength

and I knew from that point on

that u were pure woman 2 me

possessing a spirit that was strong

I want smiles 2 replace the sorrow

that u have encountered in the past

and since it was strength that attracted me 2 u

it will take strength 2 make it last

My negative side will attempt 2 change u

but please fight that with your all

it will be your strength that keep us both standing

while others around us fall

-Tupak Shakur

*...seventeenth-century Mexico calls the children of Indian-African marriage "Chinos."  Latin America is extraordinarily playful with matters of sex, which is to say of matters of blood, whereas the United States is severe and Puritanical about notions of blood precisely because we are insecure about issues of eroticism.

-Richard Rodriquez