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Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the...
I am a black woman
the music of my song
some sweet arpeggio of tears
is written in a minor key
and...
If we have the Word let us
say it
If we have the Word let us
be it
If we have the Word let...
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go....
I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the...
Biology transcends society.
Source: The Chinaberry Tree, 1913.
-- Jessie Redmon...
There is no peace with you
Nor any rest!
Your presence is a torture to the brain.
Your words are barbed...
The white world is feverishly anxious to know of our thoughts, our hopes, our dreams. Organization is our strongest...
The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us...
She thought then of black people . . . . And she saw them as a people powerfully, almost overwhelmingly endowed with...
Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of...
My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power...
Alas! and am I born for this? To wear this slavish chain?
Source: On Liberty and...
Because the brood-sows left side pigs were black
Whose sable tincture was by nature struck.
Were you by justice...
I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to...
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
Source: In Webster's...
The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Out of abysses of Illiteracy,
Through labyrinths of Lies,
Across wastelands of Disease . . .
We...
A civilization is always judged in its decline.
Source: In Black Women Writers, by...