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robatbdi
06-29-2005, 05:57 AM
Hi people.
I was just wondering if anyone could help...
I've had a poem at the back of my mind for years now which I first read in an Anthology of Black Writers called something like "White Man I'm Talking To You " (I think!) It was published in the seventies in the UK.
The poem had a line about "women with shining brown skin" in it. Sorry to be so vague.
It tends to re-surface now and then and for some reason is bugging me more these days.

Can anyone help???

mono
06-29-2005, 11:37 PM
I cannot think of or find any such poem, except the Malcolm X autobiography entitled I'm Talking To You, White Man.
If you feel very certain that you search for a poem, I will continue searching; just check this thread now and then.
Welcome to the forum, by the way. :)

robatbdi
06-30-2005, 03:29 AM
Thanks Mono
Now Malcolm X does ring a bell...
That's given me a direction to go in...
Thanks

Sitaram
06-30-2005, 10:56 AM
I searched and searched, but all I could find was this:

http://www.bolerium.com/cgi-bin/bol48/78045.html?id=cjMm6usr

Malcolm X I'm talking to you, white man; in the Saturday Evening Post, September 12, 1964, 237th year, issue no.31. The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. 1964, 22p. excerpt from The Autobiography, illus. with photos, 84p., 10.5x13.5 inch magazine.

robatbdi
06-30-2005, 03:23 PM
Thanks Sitaram...
I don't know if my mind or memory is playing tricks with me! I've come across a seventies paperback anthology (via Amazon) called "Black Voices" which also rings a bell with my decrepid thought processes. I've ordered it and am hopeful something might be in there. Thanks for taking the time to write.

robatbdi
07-01-2005, 05:37 AM
I think Malcolm X might have taken the title of his autobiography from a poem....
Hmmmm....
Still looking