From the beginning of time, throughout the centuries, until this present age, black women have been something else.
Our beauty lies in our diversity. We have been called Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Mary, Ruth, Sapphire and La Sheneeka.
Our skin may be the color of French Vanilla ice cream or it could be tones of deepest ebony.
We may have flowing silk-like hair or a curly fro.
There is something about a Black Woman!
We have rocked cradles, cooked collard greens, sewed, washed clothes, cleaned other people's houses and still helped build a nation.
There is something about a Black Woman!
We have been depressed, repressed, distressed and oppressed, yet not only have we survived, we have thrived.
There is something about a Black Woman!
With full lips and swaying hips, we have left the cotton fields and moved to the corporate rooms.
There is something about a Black Woman!
The poets have declared it, Luther has sung it, the writers have documented it and the angels proclaim it.
There is something about a Black Woman!
Aunties, mothers, sisters, sister-girls, godmothers, nieces and daughters - we make this world a brighter place.
e put the "W" in wonderful and the "M" in magnificent.
There is something about a Black Woman!
My brothers - don't try to understand it, it's too deep.
Just love us, celebrate us and thank God everyday for the black woman in your lives.
Hallelujah! There is something about a Black Woman!
--- Source Joy Poems (Dr. PAM Deveaux - Episcopal Supervisor - Sixteen District - Women, Poverty & Population Yearbook)