Akua Naru - Toni Morrison lyrics

Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
The book was amazing to me in
The way that it would
My favorite novel by Toni Morrison is "Sula"
'cause I feel like
I remember, in the book "Song of
Solomon", one of my favorite books, there
Was a group of vigilantes called Seven
Days, I believe they were called, and they
My favorite Toni Morrison book
Is still "The Bluest
Eyes" because every time I read this book
My favorite for Toni Morrison is "Beloved"
My favorite by her would have to "Beloved"
Drilled into the importance of
Book and "The Mercy
My favorite Toni Morrison book
Is "The Bluest Eye" "Beloved"

Used to wonder "Whose little girl am I?"
The fifth woman inside, bangin' Simona
Mama's old 45s score for "The Bluest Eye"
Kept they yearnin' low tide until Pecola
Bought that bird in the mine
Most vulnerable kind, black girl
Lost and could find
In that double conscious outlined by
Du Bois in his prime
Who heard us cry when the dawn
Told us black was a crime?
Arrest your walk with that
Sword in your spine
Tragic victim of time, rewind the memory
Collective genetics took you to
Write that simile
Inscribe the cage, find joy through the pain
And Frankie Beverly, trapped in the maze
Made niggas and slaves
Greeters and maids made to lay a made bed
Spread legs, sweeten Master's entertainment
Prescribed invisible lives till
You reframed it denied the white gaze
Another brush to paint with

How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people?
One hand hold the pen (Uh)
One pen hold the people
(One hand, one pen, uh)
How can one hand hold the pen (Uh, one hand)
One pen hold the people? (One pen, uh)
One hand hold the pen (Uh)
One pen hold the people
(Uh, yo, uh, yo, Toni Morrison)

Now, though the world was
Three-fifths and fractured
We whole and main characters
Female protagonists, centralized blackness
That "Tar Baby"
That "Jazz" riff that came after
That Shadrack horror when war
Left us shattered
A literary photograph capture born
Before the wounded
Was you who knew the magic from the rain
The thunder, the blood
The delightful compassion
Showed us that bottom was
The top, re-imagine, yes
See how you write with the hands of God
Layers, facades, calm, poised
Phylicia Rashad
Reading your storm over us all
Mother and daughter bonds, braided and torn
All the chaos
Sula watched the bird from the front yard
Mother of metaphor
The height of Zeus be your lexicon
"Song of Solomon" songs go on
A Pulitzer, Nobel Prize in human form
The livin', the dead, you honored us all

How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people? (Toni, huh)
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Uh)
How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people?
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Toni Morrison)
How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people? (Uh)
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people
How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people?
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison

One hand, one pen, Toni Morrison, uh
One hand, one pen, the people (Toni Morrison)

Toni Morrison is so important because
Her writing is a
Visualization into the depth of
Meaning of the black
Experience she uses the rich
Mythology and metaphors of
The African-American experience to anchor
And enrich her
Personal imagery in the book her
Work demonstrates both the
Uniqueness and the universality of
African-American life her
Work heals the disrupted ancestral energies
Heals the torn
Ancestral soul, and reveals the
Beauty, vigor, pathos
And durability of African-American
Life and culture

How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people? (Uh)
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Toni Morrison)
How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people? (Toni Morrison)
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Toni Morrison)
How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people?
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Uh)
How can one hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people? (Uh)
One hand hold the pen
One pen hold the people (Toni Morrison)

Toni Morrison
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
You, thank you, thank you, thank you
Toni Morrison thank you