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I am moved by his passion for life and I am moved to tears .
Absolutely stunning.
I cry EVERYTIME I listen to this and I’ve made numerous “non poetry lovers” LOVE this poem and Joshua. Thank you for your insight…. you are TRULY an inspiration!!
You know why I love this guy? I am a middle class suburbanite yet I’m unhappy as fuck. All I see are hipsters, fakers, racists, self-hating racists, so called “rappers”, sociopaths, a bunch of men and women only after sex and power, like animals. Then this guy comes along and is pretty much the opposite of that. His words will be my life support and reminder that true passionate human beings are not a myth and the soul does exist. Amazing stuff
Joshua Bennett blows me away anytime that he opens his lips to speak
this is one of the coldest poems Ive ever heard in my intire 13 yr old life.I write poetry to and i hope one day that one of my poems will be as good as this one.
Its interesting seeing Spoken Word mixed with politics
love it <3
i caught myself backing away from my computer two times while watching this…it was that powerful to me….awsome!!!!
gives me chills each time :3
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Why does the girl of my dreams talk about how she likes this guy to me? Haha, he is good though.
literally crying.
Hey,geuss what guys,my name is Joshua Bennett too!!!!but iam white though,and less of a lisp,well no lisp,nice words from this guy,iam not sooooo nice
ur amazing seriously !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
This is my best friend and cousin’suncle … i have met tamara several times shes one of the nicest people you will ever meet :)
I skipped to :18 to eliminate the nonsense but quickly rewound to the beginning. This doesn’t happen much for me on youtube.
Epic!!!!
i love u baby i want to have your kids
This is amazing. My sister is deaf. She’s 17 right now. I barely know how to say her name . Maybe an “n” for Natashia. I used to cry thinking about how we couldnt ever have a convo with out her leaving getting upset that i never under stood her. here i am 18 years old and still cant speak to my sister the way i want to. it hurts so bad not being able to tell your on flesh and blood that you love them so much. I wish i was more dedicated to learning sign language than i am after watching this
Oh my word yes.
@obamahateswhitepeop1 its amazing how Obama is a combination of both u(white) and me(black) but all you see is the me(black) in him and u(white) you dont see. Its crazy how u can deny your own kind because his skin looks like mine when he’s probably genetically made up of mostly u. Its crazy how we’re so caught up in the color of the skin that we cant realize that we are all the same and when we die we all look alike we’re so caught up on our flesh that we dont have time to worry bout our souls!
@obamahateswhitepeop1 it never seems to amaze me how white always wants to shine even when it not there time. We have had 43 WHITE presidents bringing in WHITE friends and WHITE families and no one seeing anything wrong with that but then we get ONE African American doing the same and now there’s a problem? but see i dont blame u cause u’re only going based off what it is u hear and what u hear most is ur family. in reference to ur name 4 him to hate white ppl he would have to hate himself
i can just cry hearing this
“i know that there is no poem, that can make up for all the time we have lost” good stuff