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Too Black, Too Strong is a collection of poems by British Rastafarian writer and dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, and was published in 2001 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd. The readily available paperback version (ISBN 1-85224-554-9) was first published in Britain in 2001.

The Poems

The volume consists of 41 poems, which are:

  1. Bought And Sold
  2. What If
  3. Breakfast in East Timor
  4. What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us
  5. To Ricky Reel
  6. To Michael Menser
  7. Having a Word
  8. Reminders
  9. Appeal Dismissed
  10. Chant of a Homesick Nigga
  11. This Be The Worst
  12. Time
  13. The Woman Has to Die
  14. Kill Them Before Ramadan
  15. The Empire Comes Back
  16. The Men From Jamaica Are Settling Down
  17. I Neva Shot De Sheriff
  18. Carnival Days
  19. Naked
  20. Adultery
  21. Going Cheap
  22. Christmas Has Been Shot
  23. Two Dozen Babylon
  24. Three Black Males
  25. We People Too
  26. Anti-Slavery Movements
  27. Knowing Me
  28. The Race Industry
  29. Biko the Greatness
  30. Derry Sunday
  31. The One Minutes of Silence
  32. The Drunk on Green Street
  33. The Ride
  34. To Do Wid Me
  35. Nu Blue Suede Shoes
  36. The Approved School of Reggae
  37. Do Something Illegal
  38. Translate
  39. The London Breed
  40. Heroes
  41. The Big Bang
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