Why Love Black Men?

Loving Black men, Is Da NEW Sexy

Beautiful Black Men

(With compliments and apologies to all not mentioned by name)
by Nikki Giovanni

i wanta say just gotta say something
bout those beautiful beautiful beautiful outasight
black men
with they afros
walking down the street
is the same ol danger
but a brand new pleasure
sitting on stoops, in bars, going to offices
running numbers, watching for their whores
preaching in churches, driving their hogs
walking their dogs, winking at me
in their fire red, lime green, burnt orange
royal blue tight tight pants that hug
what i like to hug
jerry butler, wilson pickett, the impressions
temptations, mighty mighty sly
don't have to do anything but walk
on stage
and i scream and stamp and shout
see new breed men in breed alls
dashiki suits with shirts that match
the lining that compliments the ties
that smile at the sandals
where dirty toes peek at me
and i scream and stamp and shout
for more beautiful beautiful beautiful
black men with outasight afros

Nikki Giovanni, “Beautiful Black Men” from The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1996 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Source: The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996)