I am a black woman
the music of my song
some sweet arpeggio of tears
is written in a minor key
and I
can be heard humming in the night
Can be heard
humming
in the night
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Mari Evans, (Jul 16 1923-2017), US poet, educator, editor; She has written several volumes of poetry and edited the critical anthology Black Women Writers: 1950-1980.