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Title The Black family towards more self-love / by Asher.
Author Ledwidge, Asher, 1941-
Publication Info. Springfield Gardens, NY : A. Ludwidge, 1993.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  811.54 LED    Check Shelves
Description viii, 105 p. ; 22 cm.
Note "August 1993."
Contents Teach me to love-- The fear of failure-- Chain of sorrow-- Memory of slavery and grandma-- At the day care-- Blacks: toward more self-love-- How can we return to self-love?-- Prayer for a black hero-- Elijah Mohammed-- A letter to my motherland-- So they changed me-- Our nature in common-- Unwanted hate-- Thou hath enslaved my soul-- Living black in a white world-- Black is beautiful-- The black sees himself-- Black man inside himself-- The learning defense-- Anger--love the mule--the slave-- Equality-- The white man-- Black is equal-- How it feels to be black-- The good, the bad and the me-- Black, get back-- How the white man sees me-- Black in the mirror-- Friendship from a black perspective-- I dump on my kids-- The black family in America-- Love, discipline and the child-- Don't touch my glass-- Suppress the hurt, embrace the comfort-- Can't find a home-- Sad, my dad-- The barber's chair-- Footsteps of Mama-- Let me drink-- Positive thinking-- Empty bottle, empty room-- Confession of a junkie-- The last day of my life-- Knowing that you love me-- A duet for happiness-- MLK, Jr., compassion and wisdom-- Lord, forgive our unbelief-- Lord, my spirit looks up to thee-- A black anthem-- Give a child love-- Being black and male.
Subject African American families -- Poetry.
African American families.
Added Author Asher.
ISBN 0963610902 (pbk.) : $8.00
0963610945 : $10.00