African Giraffe

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    ... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a “slave of a slave.”
    Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)

    All that blesses the step of the antelope
    all the grace a giraffe lifts to the highest leaves
    all steadfastness and pleasant gazing, alien to ennui,
    dwell secretly behind man’s misery.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)