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Jessica Care Moore

Warrior walk alone

  • 1 Warrior walk alone | Translations: de
  • 2 War | Translations: de
  • 3 Estrogism | Translations: de
  • 4 Walking up 158th street | Translations: de
  • 5 For Ponchai forever | Translations: de
  • 6 Mirrors | Translations: srde
  • 7 Kitchen Talk | Translations: de
  • 8 Black Ice | Translations: de
Language: english
Translations: german (Krieger geh alleine)
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Warrior walk alone
For Erykah Badu

Warriors walk alone
But stay protected by their pack
Give them everything they wanted
Then take it all back
Make them find their icon in the mirror
Sprout their own fear and watch them grow
Tell their story – cry when you do it
Turn your blood to funkadelic polkadots
Sign your name in red
Change the I to why
Because we have to change
Because black girls are dying
Because no one showed them how to live
Mama fish, the children will revolt
Whispers and reports of oil spills
Will kill the women
Who make revolution, food for their children

A penny bank full of butterflies
Will never cocoon into enough cash
To pay for the expectations of spectators
Gypsy haters
Wash your colorful wings in the well
Know that all your wishes
Add to our spicy bitches brew
We are who was sent to you
So, who sent you?
When the shit goes down
Will you remember which way the blue bird flew?
I advise you carry your compass and your scissors
Next time you go fishing for the worst part of good
I hope your ideas of consciousness
Can get you out this hood
In one piece
We wolves always come in peace
We are the traveling leaf, that cries for trees
Music angel.
Stretch your warrior marks
Mark your warrior path
Stretch marks tattoo your temple
Swallow your dimples
Hide your style/market your spirit/sell something/cut it off/save
them/sacrifice/drink water/pray/laugh and breath/cross your legs/get your
gun/wage the war/make them buy it/bat your eyes/rock it out/make them
beg/put the hits on the b side/smile warrior
Listen for your tribe

Here we go!

Check your footprints
Pick them up/shoot em down/take the a train/bite your story
Save your tongue//just get there sista/even if you have to leave a few of
us
behind/chant backward rhymes/store your milk for ammunition/ use your
intuition/shave your hair/wish them luck
tell the witch doctors/we don’t give a fuck/

scar your face/pierce your nose/unwrap the package
define the present

tell them no

just when they think they’ve have it

meditate while they criticize it/burn sage for the liars who print it/turn
down the stove/only boil with natural fire/burn down their house/watch the
words melt /save the ink/write a new song/return to the ocean/leave them
to
the mermaids/carry your pepper spray/wear your hooker books/tease
them/make
them prove their identity/brand it to their bodies/force them to pin a
star
to their clothes/convert the masses/design the logo/create a real
revolution

when no one’s looking

so they’ll never see us

coming

© Moore Black Press 2001
From: The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto
Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 2001
ISBN: 0-9658308-0-2
Audio production: 2001 M.Mechner, literaturWERKstatt berlin
Video
Categories: gender & sexuality, woman

Translations:

Language: german

Krieger geh alleine
Für Erykah Badu

Krieger gehn alleine
Doch immer im Schutz ihrer Truppe
Gib ihnen was sie nur wollten
Dann hol es dir zurück
Laß sie im Spiegel ihr Abbild finden
Ihre eigene Angst keimen und sieh sie wachsen
Erzähl ihre Geschichte - weine dabei
Mach funky Punktmuster aus deinem Blut
Unterschreib in rot
Ändere Selbst zu weshalb
Weil wir uns ändern müssen
Weil schwarze Mädchen sterben
Weil niemand sie Leben lehrte
Mama Fisch, die Kinder begehren auf
Geflüster und Berichte von Ölflecken
Lassen die Frauen verrecken
Die ihren Kindern Revolution, Essen machen

Ein Pfennigkonto voller Schmetterlinge
Wird nie ein Kokon mit ausreichend Geld
Die Erwartungen der Starrenden zu begleichen
Der Zigeunerhasser
Wascht eure farbigen Flügel im Brunnen
Wißt, daß jeder eurer Wünsche
Unser würziges Hexengebräu vermehrt
Wir sind´s, die euch geschickt wurden
Also, wer hat euch geschickt?
Wenn die Scheiße abgeht
Weißt du dann noch, wohin der blaue Vogel flog?
Mein Rat: nimm deinen Kompaß und deine Scheren
Wenn du wieder Ewigkeiten fischen bist
Hoffentlich bringt dich dein Bild vom Bewußtsein
In einem Stück
Aus diesem Revier
Wir Wölfe kommen immer in Frieden
Wir sind das wandernde Blatt, das nach Bäumen heult
Musikengel.
Streck deine Kriegerzeichen
Zeichne den Kriegspfad
Runzeln zeichnen deine Schläfen
Verschluck deine Grübchen
Verbirg deinen Stil/vermarkte den Geist/verkauf irgendwas/schneid´s ab/bewahre
sie/bring Opfer/trink Wasser/bete/lache, atme/schlag die Beine übereinander/hol
die  Knarre/führe Krieg/zwing sie zu kaufen/zwinkere/hau´s raus/laß sie
betteln/bring die Hits auf die B-Seite/lächle Krieger
Lausche deinem Stamm

Los geht´s!

Lies deine Fährten
Nimm sie auf/schieß sie nieder/nimm den A-Train/friß deine
Geschichte halt die Zunge im Zaum/Schwesta, mach´s einfach/selbst wenn du manche von
uns zurücklassen mußt/sing Reime rückwärts/speichere deine Milch als Munition/benutz
deine Intuition/rasier deine Haare ab/viel Glück für sie
sag den Medizinmännern/wir scheißen auf die/

vernarb dein Gesicht/laß dir die Nase piercen/pack´s aus
bestimme die Gegenwart

sag Nein

wenn sie gerade meinen sie kriegen es

meditiere wenn sie kritisieren/entzünde Salbei für die Lügner die´s drucken/stell
den Ofen kleiner/koch nur auf Holzfeuer/brenn ihr Haus nieder/sieh die
Wörter schmelzen/spare Tinte/schreib ein neues Lied/kehr zurück ins Meer/überlasse sie
den Meerjungfrauen/trag dein Pfefferspray bei dir/zieh Fick-mich- Stiefel an/reize sie/laß
sie ihre Identität beweisen/brenn sie auf ihre Körper/zwinge sie, einen Stern an ihre
Kleidung zu stecken/bekehre die Massen/erfinde das Logo/schaffe eine wahre Revolution

wenn keiner hinsieht

denn dann sehen sie uns niemals

kommen

Aus dem Amerikanischen von Olaf Schenk

© Olaf Schenk



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Jessica Care Moore

* 28.10.1971, Detroit, United States
lives in: Atlanta, United States

jessica Care moore wurde am 28. Oktober 1971 in Detroit/USA. Nachdem Sie in ihrer Heimatstadt bereits 1994 großen Erfolg bei den legendären The Last Poets hatte, ging sie 1995 mit siebenhundert Dollar und einem Traum nach New York. Wenig später erhielt sie die Gelegenheit, ihre Texte bei der Fernseheshow, It's Showtime at the Apollo vorzustellen und gewann auf Anhieb fünf Wochen hintereinander den Publikumspreis.

Seither war sie im Brooklyn Moon Café, The Tea Party und dem Nuyorican Poets Cafe zu sehen und zu hören. Ihre kraftvollen, oft sehr politischen und doch poetischen Texte, die ihre Wurzel im HipHop und Funk haben, verwandelt sie auf der Bühne zu einer atemberaubenden Performance.

Die Lyrikerin, Verlegerin und Schauspielerin ist eine der aufregendsten Stimmen der jungen HipHop-Szene der Vereinigten Staaten: Sie wurde in dem Film SLAM Nation, der den US-National Slam 1997 in Providence dokumentiert, vorgestellt und spielt in dem Spielfilm Slam, der 1998 in Cannes den Nachwuchspreis der goldenen Kamera erhielt, zu sehen.

Heute lebt sie in Atlanta.

Publications
  • The Words don't fit in my mouth.

    Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 1997

  • The Poetry of Emcees.

    Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 2001

  • The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto.

    Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 2003

  • God is Not an American

    poetry, politics & love

    Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 2009

  • Sunlight Through Bullet Holes

    poems (that will live)

    Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 2014

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