Black Lives Lines and Lyrics: Lines Lyrics and Laments for Black Life Love Loss and Liberty

Black Lives Lines & Lyrics conveys the 21st Century Black experience through lines and verse. Divided into three measures this poetry collection provides rhythmical reflections on black experiences with racial and social injustice a poetic account of the lives lost to police brutality and racial violence and a lyrical celebration of the beauty resilience and humanity of Black people.Part I Black Lyrics provides a poetic perspective of the highs and lows of living while Black in the 21st Century. Part II Black Lives is a poetic account of the lives lost to police brutality and racial violence. Part III Black Lines is a nod to a different kind of poetic form rap music or Hip Hop paying homage to the best of Black Excellence. Readers agree that Black Lives Lines and Lyrics is a body of art an amazing book of lyrical content and one of the most profound books they have read since the likes of Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou. Author D.B. Mays invites you to have a better understanding of the experiences of Black Lives in a three-part journey. Poems like AmeriKKKa Hypocrisy on the Hill and The Black Book: Lessons You Should Know are thought-provoking and liberating.One reader called the work an overdue gem that navigates through one of civilizations most sad and challenging realities. D.B. Mays covers so many bases with tremendous grace style and clarity. A must-read for staying connected with todays call for universal peace and justice. Other readers wrote that it is an absolutely amazing book of poetry and lyrical content has such a wide variety of poetry and compelling storytelling. Poems such as Stunning My Grandparents Living Room Goldilocks The Run and #SayHerName evoke emotional responses that make readers nostalgic laugh and even cry. The book aims to help people of all backgrounds gain an appreciation for the beauty and endurance of Black people while bringing the realities of the discrimination and racism that Black people face in America and really around the world to the forefront of our social consciousness conversations and communities. This poetry collection is written for Black people about Black people and to Black people but it is also an open and standing invitation to non-Black people to get to know us and our experiences a little better.