Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Edward Kamau Brathwaite — born Lawson Edward Brathwaite on May 11, 1930 — was a Barbadian poet, historian,...
Jayne Cortez (born Sallie Jayne Richardson) was a visionary African American poet, performer, and cultural activist whose fierce,...
Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934) was a physician, radiologist, writer, musician, and orator whose remarkable, though brief, life had a profound impact on the Harlem Renaissance and African American literary and intellectual history....
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
Jacques Stephen Alexis (1922–1961) was a Haitian novelist, neurologist, and Marxist political activist whose life and work came...
This summer, I embarked on a 21-day trip to Ghana, motivated by my deep admiration for Ottobah Cugoano, an important historical figure whose legacy is often overlooked. Before my visit, I...
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I have ever read. Classified as “magical realism,” the...
I went to see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves:...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
