Jacqueline Tilles, Ph.D
215 College of Education
313-577-0990
Program Area:
Reading, Language, and Literature

To make an appointment call 313-577-0902. 

From her first volume of poetry, Love Bein' Black: Poems in Celebration of Blackness

Old, Ignorant Black Folks

Those old, ignorant black folks--
They GAVE what they had.
The DID what they knew.
They LOVED what they produced.

Never did get to school much.

But they could TEACH us
A
Thing
Or
Two

Those old, ignorant black folks.