The Colored Soldiers by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a...
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I Am a Black Woman by Mari Evans
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...
Where Have You Gone by Mari Evans
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when you took your laughter and departed are...
For My People by Margaret Walker
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an...
Filthy Negroes by Jacques Roumain
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain, an anger forged in the fires of...
Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...
When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads...
Belly Song by Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and is recognised as a key work in...
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll...
ON THE PULSE OF MORNING: Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here...