I think black.

i think African.

and i exhale.

and i want to tell you

of how exhausting it is.

not to be black. that, i have no issues with.

it is that I have to constantly remind you that I too am human that leaves me so drained.

but okay.

my voice now carries the screams and shouts of my ancestors from centuries past:

I’m black. not less.

I’m black. not more.

I am black. that’s it.


Winifred Gray-Johnson, from Liberia, is part of the Seed program with MCC Bolivia. Her favorite question is “where is home?”

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