https://padlet.com/20070137/wvkjmyerbjzmidyv en-us 2021-01-28 11:38:09 UTC 2025-10-10 04:34:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 20070137 https://padlet.com/20070137/wvkjmyerbjzmidyv/wish/1135893656 She does not know
her beauty,
she thinks her brown body
has no glory.

If she could dance
naked
under palm trees
and see her image in the river,
she would know.

But there are no palm trees
on the street,
and dish water gives back
no images.

]]> 2021-01-28 11:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20070137/wvkjmyerbjzmidyv/wish/1135893656 20070137 https://padlet.com/20070137/wvkjmyerbjzmidyv/wish/1135908200 When: The poem is publish in 1973
Who: William Waring Cuney (1906-1976) 
The poem describes a black girl who lost awareness of her beauty and starts to denigrate herself when trying to acculturate into white society and economic poverty. This poem is link to Harlem Renaissance by inspiring the black people to see their beauty, glory and reinforce racist beliefs


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